A string of lights hangs outside a shut storefront in Nakazato.

A lamp lights a basket of cloth flowers through the safety glass window of a basement suite in Nakazato.

The brightly-lit lobby of an apartment building in Nakazato, near Tabata.

An old home in Nakazato, near Tabata. At 4AM, someone is awake inside, smoking and listening to Japanese folk music by the light of a tin-shaded lamp.

The same apartment building, Tabata.

Apartment building, Tabata.

Nakazato, looking toward Tabata.

The Takane Clinic, Nakazato.

Phone booth, community bulletin board. Nakazato.

Walk signal control box, Nakazato.

On a pedestrian bridge where Nishigahara meets Nakazato, a tile mosaic of a tree.

Where Nishigahara meets Nakazato, a pedestrian bridge.