Arcade Size:M Blue pneumatic lines trail down

Blue pneumatic lines trail down to the production floor below

The building opened as Asahi Elementary School in 1975 and closed just eight years later

Dust settles on empty desks in the former offices of Balmain Leagues Club

cutting clean shafts through the darkness and catching dust suspended in the still air

its petals open against the fractured concrete

Arcade Size:M Blue pneumatic lines trail downRows of game machines sit where crowds once queued, their screens and controls dulled under years of settled dust. The arcade was part of Western Village, the American frontier themed park operated by taka Enterprises Co., Ltd. in Nikko, Tochigi, that ran from 1973 until its closure in December 2006. Part of the Western Village series.