architecture

Four tall spires and several lesser ones in the style reminiscent of of Antoni Gaudi rise into a blue sky beyond a nondescript utilitarian square building in the foreground.

An ageing pale beige two-story structure with a sign reading (in English translation) “Nagoya Milk” and a rusting ramshackle one-story extension for a retail area stands next to a road marked with a max speed limit of 30km/hr.

End view of a wooden warehouse.

A red door with a sign reading “Bar Reborn” to the side, mounted on construction scaffolding.

A wooden warehouse building with tile roof, viewed from the side across a parking lot behind a chain-link fence. One small yellow car is parked in front of the building. The footings of the building have subsided unevenly, twisting its lines into a wave pattern.

A grey one-story flat-roofed building with lettering on the side reading (in English translation) “Let’s Go! / Sakushima / a 20-minute ferry ride”

A field of weeds with a low-lying building with a tall brickwork chimney in its center in the distance.

A closeup of the building with the chimney, showing its corrugated metal siding.

A two-story building with slate roof and vines adorning the face of the second-story wall, with green and red bunting over the entrance, and a sign reading (in English translation) “Mah-Jong.”

A modern building bearing a sign reading “Kitaogi Meeting Place” (北小木集会所)