Archive for August, 2007

Ashio – Abandoned Mining Town, Japan

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

Ashio: Japan’s largest copper producer for over 100 years, a forced labor camp for allied POWs during WW2 and the source of Japans worst ever industrial pollution incident and now an UrbEx wonderland. Power stations, refineries, houses, shops, mines and more, an entire mining town abandoned to the elements and those keen enough to visit.

Ashio - Beauty in Functionality

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