Snoopy and Woodstock kandos The building opened as Asahi

The building opened as Asahi Elementary School in 1975

The gantry connected the malthouses to the rail siding where barley arrived by train throughout the facility's 81-year operational life

coated in five years of dust

What remains today retains the physical evidence of a production process largely unchanged since the early twentieth century

settling across the timber post-and-beam interior of the five-storey mill that operated from June 1922 until 2009

Snoopy and Woodstock kandos The building opened as AsahiSnoopy and Woodstock sit on a dusty shelf, their colours still bright against the surrounding decay. The figures were left behind when the dormitory's residents evacuated after the July 2007 fire. Built in 1927 to house Taiwanese students studying in Tokyo, Seika Dormitory stood sealed in Bunkyo ku for another six years before demolition in 2013. Part of the Seika Dormitory series.