Piano Colour:White paint peeling from the walls

paint peeling from the walls in long curling strips where decades of use have worked loose

paying guests

purpose-built in 1957 to serve the Balmain Tigers community

A coiled hose reel sits against a peeling wall

Piano Colour:White paint peeling from the wallsA piano stands on the floor of a disused room inside the former Family School Fureai building in Yubari, Hokkaido. Dust covers the keys. The instrument was already here when the building operated as a public lodging and group training facility from around 1994, run by the city's third sector tourism entity, Yubari Kanko Kaihatsu. The company went bankrupt in April 2007 and the building has been unoccupied since. Part of the Family School Fureai series.