Raffan Mill heaters Sapphire Palms Motel

Sapphire Palms Motel

Part of the Sekitan no Rekishi Mura complex built between 1978 and 1983 as Yubari's pivot from coal to tourism

YKK converted it to group lodging in the mid-1990s

sunlight cutting through broken windows to pick out the dust and decay

Yubari's coal industry sustained a peak population of around 107

Raffan Mill heaters Sapphire Palms MotelRaffan's Mill at Portland Cement Works, photographed in 2018. Rusting machinery and crumbling concrete pillars fill the cavernous single level brick structure, which predates the Commonwealth Portland Cement Company works entirely. Built around 1889 for George Raffan's lime and cement operation, the mill once housed four 1,200 mm diameter Burr Stone Mills. Part of the Portland Cement Works series.