Street · Fukuoka
Right now, Misaki Oyama is rolling past a dead fountain in Fukuoka
After closing, the shutters are down, the escalators are still and the only thing moving in the building is a skateboard.
By Pablo Iriarte-Svensson · Wednesday, 28 October 2026 · 1 min read
9.04 p.m. The shutters are down on the shoe shop, the phone repair stall and the place that sold only umbrellas. Misaki Oyama pushes off from the bottom of a stopped escalator.
The atrium fountain has been switched off. One 10-yen coin sits face down on the dry basin floor.
Urethane on terrazzo. That is the whole soundtrack. The air conditioning went off at eight.
She does the second floor in long loops, wide at the corners. She says she likes it when a building forgets it is a building.
A guard watches from the north door with a flask. He has not moved since she arrived.