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Kurashiki
A perfectly preserved Edo-era merchant town of white-walled storehouses along a willow-lined canal.
An ivy-draped red-brick former textile mill turned hotel, cafes, and craft workshops.
Quiet Edo-era merchant lanes behind the canal, lined with craft ateliers and independent cafes.
A grand Edo-era merchant mansion, an Important Cultural Property showing how Kurashiki's elite lived.
The birthplace of Japanese denim - a street of selvedge-jeans ateliers in the Kojima district.
A budget-friendly, family-oriented museum of dinosaurs, fossils, insects and regional nature.
Japan's first museum of Western art, with El Greco, Monet, Gauguin and more in a Greek-temple building.
Kurashiki's guardian shrine atop Tsurugatayama hill, famed for an ancient wisteria and views over the Bikan quarter.
An ancient mountain temple on Mt. Yuga dedicated to warding off misfortune, home to Japan's largest Daifudo statue.
The Shinto half of the Mt. Yuga pilgrimage complex, a hilltop shrine for warding off misfortune with sea views.
A memorial gallery in Ivy Square honoring Kojima Torajiro, the painter who assembled Japan's first Western art museum collection.
A city art museum inside Kenzo Tange's former city hall, spotlighting painters with deep ties to Kurashiki and Okayama.
Inside a red-brick former cotton mill, this hall tells the story of Kurabo and the industrial rise that funded Kurashiki's art and culture.
A hands-on science center with 100-plus interactive exhibits and a large full-dome planetarium, popular with Kurashiki families.
A whimsical museum of shoujo-manga artist Yumiko Igarashi, creator of Candy Candy, with original art and dress-up photo experiences.
Japan's first jeans museum, in the denim town of Kojima, tracing jeans history with a working factory, workshop and outlet shop.
The world's longest two-tiered road-and-rail bridge, a 13-kilometre chain of six spans linking Kurashiki's Kojima to Shikoku across five islands.
A wooded hilltop park just above the Bikan quarter, laced with cherry, azalea and wisteria and offering a peaceful overlook of Kurashiki's old town.
The hilltop remains of an early Edo-period castle above Shimotsui, now a blossom-filled park with commanding views of the Seto Ohashi Bridge.
A weathered fishing and trading port beneath the Seto Ohashi Bridge, its lanes of old merchant houses preserving Kurashiki's maritime past.
A Brazilian-themed clifftop amusement park above the Seto Inland Sea, famous for a pedal-powered sky cycle that runs along the edge of the ridge.
A waterfront park at the foot of the Great Seto Bridge, offering close-up views of the vast span linking Honshu and Shikoku.
Friendly craft-beer pub near the station pouring local microbrews with inventive food.
Green-fronted cafe-bar minutes from the station, coffee by day and drinks till late.
