Vol.01  First visit

Seeing the site for the first time, this was when I actually learned the existence of school buildings there, since they hadn’t been mentioned in the records.
The real estate agent said that people thought there was no use for the buildings and they would have to be destroyed. He said they are “abandoned” according to the records. Besides the main school buildings, there was a toilet building from its elementary school days, and a bath building probably for school camps. There were also some other half- destroyed small structures there. Apparently, those structures and other school buildings that used to be there had been devastated by a typhoon, and had been left in that damaged state ever since.

I’d come to this place to see a traditional Japanese residence, and had been pleasantly surprised to find an elementary school also standing there, with a wonderful view of the sea in front of the site. The Japanese house also had a small structure housing a well and another housing a kitchen furnace. I became excited imagining all the possibilities if we could use those places too.

As I turned my eyes to the site next door, I could see a prefab structure staring back at me. I became curious and decided to explore and find out what it was.