Downtown Colour:Black replacing the open hearth furnaces

replacing the open hearth furnaces that had run since 1931

its lower wall buckled outward and green tile cladding spilled across the car park

Photographed 2018

their surfaces fractured

and a green-painted gantry staircase running along the left

Downtown Colour:Black replacing the open hearth furnacesFaded timber false fronts line the main street of Western Village, painted to replicate an 1880s American frontier town on a narrow riverside site in Nikko. The park operated under taka Enterprises from October 1973, rebranded from Kinugawa Family Ranch to Western Village in March 1982, and closed on 7 December 2006. Part of the Western Village series.