Travel / Tourism Spots in Okayama Area

  • Manekineko Museum of Art
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    4.0
    30 Reviews
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    Okayama Pref. Okayamashi Kita-ku Kanayamaji 865-1
    This art museum for manekineko (beckoning cats) is located in the Kinzanji area of Kita Ward, Okayama City. Besides the permanent exhibition of 700 manekineko of various shapes and materials from traditional ones from throughout Japan to ones made by modern artists, it also holds temporary exhibitions related to manekineko. In addition, there is an adjoining museum shop that sells original manekineko goods.

    ドライブがてら寄ってみました。 名前の通り、外観も内観も猫だらけで可愛い感じ。 広くないのでさくっと見回れます。 招き猫の絵付けが出来るのが良かった。

  • Kurashiki City Monogatari-kan
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    3.5
    46 Reviews
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    Okayama Pref. Kurashikishi Achi 2-23-18
    Located at the entrance to Kurashiki Bikan Historical Quarter, this is your home base for sightseeing in the region. This building features an impressive nagaya gate outside, and exhibition rooms filled with Kurashiki’s history, as well as a multi-purpose room and a café inside.

    倉敷物語館が、内部がリニューアルされて、日本遺産の情報発信の展示に、日本遺産インフォメーションとしてリニューアルしてました。

  • Roadside Station Okutsu Onsen
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    4.0
    20 Reviews
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    Okayama Pref. Tomatagunkagaminochou Okutsu 463
    This roadside station is located along the Okutsu Bypass in the Okutsu area of Kagamino Town, Tomata County. It sells fresh local agricultural products, processed goods and specialty products such as specialty salt-grilled “hirame” (land-locked red-spotted trout). In addition, there is also a restaurant that serves a buffet of handmade country-style cooking using seasonal ingredients, and an authentic ramen noodle shop that uses store-made noodles and local miso.

    奥津温泉にある、道の駅。地元の農産物の販売のほか、奥津温泉の案内所やレストランもあります。ここに車にとめて、奥津温泉の旅館まで徒歩で10分ほど。旅館の立ち寄り入浴も可能です。

  • Nagi Museum Of Contemporary Art (Nagi MOCA)
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    4.0
    24 Reviews
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    Okayama Pref. Katsutagunnagichou Toyosawa 441
    This art museum is located in the Toyosawa area of Nagi Town, Katsuta County. Designed by architect Isozaki Arata with a huge work produced by Arakawa Shusaku + Madeline Gins, Okazaki Kazuo and Miyawaki Aiko, the museum is the combination of a piece of art and a building. There is a gallery space that holds temporary modern art exhibitions and a cafe inside. In addition, the Nagi Town Library is adjacent to the museum.

    There is a museum at the foot of Mt.Nagi.There are Three works in this museum. The name of the artwork is the sun,the moon and the earth.Only this works that appeal to the senses can only be...

  • Roadside Station Kayo
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    3.5
    20 Reviews
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    Okayama Pref. Kagagunkibichuouchou Kita 1974
    This roadside station is located along National Route 305 in the Kita area of Kibichuo Town, Kaga County. Besides shops with specialty processed goods and everyday items and a direct sales shop selling fresh local agricultural products and processed goods, there is a restaurant that has a free salad bar with local fresh vegetables as well as handmade soba buckwheat noodles and set meals. In addition, it also holds experiential learning workshops to make miso and soba buckwheat noodles (reservation required).

    田んぼに囲まれた長閑な雰囲気ですが、農作物直売所、物産館、レストラン、フードコーナー、コンビニ(ローソン)と施設は充実しています。ブルーベリーの栽培が盛んな土地柄ということで、ブルーベリーを使用したジュースやジャムなどの加工品のほか、テイクアウトできるソフトクリームやたい焼きもありました。

  • Tsuyama Wonder Museum
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    4.5
    20 Reviews
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    Okayama Tsuyama-shi Sange 98-1
    A 10-minute walk from JR Tsuyama Station. Located at the entrance to Tsuyama Castle, this natural history museum features stuffed animals from every corner of the globe. Their permanent exhibit features nearly 20,000 exhibits of stuffed animals, fossils, minerals, shells, insects, and human specimens spread throughout 13 exhibition rooms. They have nearly 800 stuffed animals including some in danger of extinction such as the golden snub-nosed monkey, low-land gorilla, and the Amur leopard. There are a lot of animals that are no longer obtainable. The organs of Morimoto Keizo, the founder of the museum, are also on display as per his will.

    剥製の展示がとにかく凄いです。総展示数は約20,000点ということで、量も質も大変充実していました☆実際に生では見れないだろう動物さんも、こうして間近で見ることができて良かったです。それぞれの雰囲気がよく分かりました(^^) また、ヒトの臓器も展示してありました。流石にこれにはビックリ仰天でした(^^;)館内には、休憩などに座れるスペースやウォーターサーバーがあります。エレベーターはありませんの...

  • Nomaru Engei Kibiji Farm
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    4.0
    21 Reviews
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    Okayama Pref. Soujashi Nishigori 411-1
    This agritourism farm is located along Prefectural Route 270 in Nishigori, Soja City. Besides having the prefecture’s largest strawberry picking field, you can experience blueberry picking, potato digging, interacting with animals, barbecues, and making pizza in stone kilns. In addition, there are gourmet facilities such as a cake workshop using fruits from the farm and a buffet restaurant, and a direct sales store for agricultural products.

    We drove out on a day trip from Kurashiki and arrived after around 45 minutes. The carpark was packed but staff were on hand to guide vehicles into the appropriate lots. The lotus root croquette at...

  • Hirokane Residence
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    4.0
    40 Reviews
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    Okayama Pref. Takahashishi Nariwachounakano 2710
    "A 55-minute drive from the Kayo Interchange on the Okayama Expressway. This building was the residence of the Hirokane family, whose members served as the village heads of Onoro and amassed a vast fortune around 1800. The residence' stone walls were built at the end of the Edo period, their majesty a match for the romon-zukuri style residence. The residence was made famous nationwide when it was twice used as a shooting location for filming different versions of ""Village of Eight Gravestone"" in 1977 and 1996. Here visitors can experience the residence' luxurious, movie-like atmosphere and learn about the history of the estate and the Hirokane family, who prospered thanks to the Koizumi Copper Mine and the production of melanterite (a component used to make ferric oxide pigment)."

    辺鄙な場所にあるせいか観光客が誰もいませんでした。 こちらは映画「八つ墓村」のロケ地。 そういう先入観があるせいか、何ともいえない因習深い湿った感じが横溝作品にぴったりな印象を受けました。 屋敷は広く、厩舎もありました。 大きな庄屋であったことが窺えます。 水を流すと涼し気な音が鳴る筒があり、柄杓が置いてあり自由に水を流すことが出来ます。 そこだけが爽やかな感じでした。

  • Roadside Station Kumenan
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    3.5
    19 Reviews
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    Okayama Pref. Kumegunkumenanchou Shimonika 1367-1
    Kumenan Roadside Station is located along the Okayama Highway in the town of Kumenan in Kume County. The main building, Fureai no Yakata, contains a shop that sells local products, a restaurant, a cafe, an information desk, and a seminar room, but there are other facilities as well: a craft studio, a food processing plant that sells Mochi and rice crackers, and a park-like green space.

    国道53号線を岡山から津山に向かいました。途中トイレ休憩で立ち寄りましたが、トイレは道路を挟んで東の施設側と西側の両方にあります。国道で交通量が多いので道路を横断するときは車に注意が必要です。久米南町は河童伝説があるらしく施設には河童の像や土産物があります。小さなレストランがあり、「ゆず」を使ったメニューがあります。

  • Japan Museum of Contemporary Toy & Hall of Music Box
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    4.5
    36 Reviews
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    Okayama Pref. Mimasakashi Yunogou 319-2
    A three-minute walk from the Yunogo Onsen-shimo bus stop on the Uno Bus leaving from Okayama Station. This toy and music box museum celebrated its 15th anniversary in 2010. The museum displays around 600 traditional toys such as European building blocks, as well as 30 music boxes and mechanical dolls made more than a century ago. Toy classes are held in the museum's studio space, and visitors can experience the fun of creating as well as the fun of playing with toys. The history and workings of music boxes are presented in the music box concert hall.

    In this nice quiet onsen town we didnt expect to find such an interesting place. This place isnt just for kids as Im sure mums and dads will love it just as much. At the time of writing this...

  • Takahashi Nariwa Museum of Art
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    4.5
    19 Reviews
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    Okayama Pref. Takahashishi Nariwachoushimohara 1068-3
    Takahashi Nariwa Museum of Art is located along National Route 33 in Shimohara, Nariwa-cho in the city of Takahashi. It houses the works of Torajiro Kojima, a native of the area, known as one of Japan's principal Impressionist painters, along with Kojima's personal collection of some 500 items, mostly Egyptian relics. The museum also contains a collection of fossilized plants discovered in the Nariwa region.

    建築家安藤忠雄氏設計の美術館です。玄関が奇抜で異空間に入る感がありとても良いです。 児島虎次郎の古代エジプト蒐集記とモネの池の蓮の花を見ました。日曜日で小学生がクイズ企画?で館内が賑やかでした。

  • Roadside Station Gaisenzakura Shinjoshuku
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    3.5
    17 Reviews
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    Okayama Pref. Maniwagunshinjouson 2190-1
    This roadside station is located along the Izumo Highway in the Hoda area of Shinjo Village, Maniwa County. It sells local specialty products such as round mochi rice cakes using the best variety of mochi rice called Himenomochi that is a local specialty, daifuku (red bean paste-filled mochi), okaki (rice crackers) and Junmai-shu (sake made without brewer’s alcohol). In the cafeteria, they offer menu items such as “Gyumochi-don” rice bowls combining mochi rice cakes and beef bowls.

    名称が変わり、道の駅...

  • Saidaiji Temple
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    4.0
    38 Reviews
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    Okayama Pref. Okayamashi Higashi-ku Saidaijinaka 3-8-8
    About a 10-minute walk from the Saidaiji Station on the Ako Line, this temple is said to be established in 751 when Princess Fujiwarano Minataru of Kuga manor built a thatched hut in Kanaoka-no-go in which she placed a thousand-armed Kannon deity. Within the precinct are many things to see, such as the three-tier pagoda that is a prefectural Important Cultural Property, a Korean Bell that is a National Important Cultural Property, and the ushidama deities, which are a Tangible Cultural Property. Every year the Eyo - Hadaka Festival is held on the third Saturday of February, which is considered to be one of Japan's three unusual ritual festivals. Having its roots in the Nara period, during this festival brave male believers garbed only in loin clothes compete and scramble for a treasure stick in the main temple.

    Went to Saidaiji in the morning partly to check the place out before the festival in the evening and also to collect the previously reserved ¥5,000 ring side seat ticket from Saidaiji office of...

  • Roadside Station Kume no sato
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    3.5
    9 Reviews
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    Okayama Pref. Tsuyamashi Miyao 563-1
    This roadside station is located along National Route 181 in the Miyao area of Tsuyama City. Besides selling agricultural products such as jumbo-size bell peppers and processed goods, the restaurant offers set meals, noodle dishes and rice bowls using local ingredients including Tsuyama offal udon noodles. On the premises, a seven-meter tall mobile suit made by a local resident is on display.

    単品で750円、ホルモンうどんの上に、地元の食材、ジャンボピーマンも乗っていました。 焼うどんにもホルモンの味が染みわたっててとても美味しいかった。

  • Sanyo Marunaka Honami Store
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    4.0
    15 Reviews
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    Okayama Bizen Honami 2541-1
    This fish market is located along the Okayama Blue Line in Honami, Bizen City. Besides selling fresh seafood hauled into port from Ushimado, Hinase and other nearby locations, they have a dine-in space where you can taste seafood rice bowls. In addition, Sanyo Marunaka (Honami Store) is adjacent to the market.

    先日鮮魚を購入する際、買った商品を投げられるし、皮ひきをお願いしたら先に言えと言われました。気分最悪。

  • Mimasaka Farm
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    4.0
    18 Reviews
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    Okayama Pref. Mimasakashi Oku 585-1
    This agritourism farm is located along National Route 374 in Oku, Mimasaka City. You can enjoy strawberry picking from early December to early June, and grape picking from mid-August to mid-October. In addition, there is also an adjacent direct sales shop that sells freshly harvested strawberries and grapes.

    ちょっと所要で、岡山を縦断中に たまたま見つけた… イチゴ&ぶどうの「美作農園」 この季節はぶどう狩りと共に、 ぶどうも商品として売られていて、試食し放題♪ いろんなブドウを試食して、マスカットは アレキサンドリアとシャインを食べ比べ❤︎ 実はアレキサンドリア、ヨーロッパ原産種なので 気候の関係で栽培が難しく、最初は岡山でしか 育てられなかったんだよ( ・᷄ὢ...

  • Japanese Rural Toy Museum
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    3.5
    38 Reviews
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Okayama Pref. Kurashikishi Chuou 1-4-16
    Located in the center of the Kurashiki Bikan Historical Quarter, this museum dedicated to toys is housed inside an Edo period rice granary. Countless time-honored Japanese toys from around the country are on display, including traditional toys, Daruma dolls, and hina dolls. Although an entry fee is required for the main building, one of the galleries inside a former inner storehouse, the museum shop, and café are free to enter.

    There is a cafe and souvenir shop street side. If you want to go into the museum, you first need to purchase entrance tickets at the souvenir checkout. The price of admission is ¥500 per person...

  • Yunogo Onsen Visitor Information Center
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    3.5
    15 Reviews
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    Okayama Pref. Mimasakashi Yunogou 323-2
    This tourism information office is located along Prefectural Route 349 in Yunogo, Mimasaka City. Situated in the hot spring town of Yunogo Onsen, which together with Yubara Onsen and Okutsu Onsen make up the three famed hot springs of Mimasaka, this office offers information related to surrounding sightseeing spots and accommodation facilities.

    湯の郷温泉の中心部にあり、駐車場もあります。パンフレットとちょっとしたお土産をおいていました。マップをとりあえず入手すると便利です。

  • Ibara Municipal Denchu Art Museum
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    4.0
    16 Reviews
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    Okayama Pref. Ibarashi Ibarachou 315
    Ibara Municipal Denchu Art Museum is located next to the city hall in Ibara-cho in the city of Ibara. The collection is centered around the works of Hirakushi Denchu, an early modern master of wood sculpture in the Japanese style, who was born in Ibara. Also on exhibit are the works of artists who were closely associated with Hirakushi Denchu and the works of winners of the Hirakushi Denchu Prize. Some of Hiraskushi Denchu’s works are exhibited in Denchu-en Park, which is in front of the museum.

    「たなか」と読んではいけません。「でんちゅう」です。 日本近代彫刻界の巨匠、平櫛田中の出身地である岡山県井原市にある美術館を訪れた。 昭和後期に建てられた当館が新増設されることとなり、長期休館に入る前に「最後の感謝展」と称して無料のコレクションオンパレード展が開催されてたから。 早朝の新幹線で福山に着き、福塩線-井原鉄道と乗り継いで井原駅到着。そこからは、地元の循環コミュニティバスもあったが、さ...

  • Bizenyaki Traditional Industries Hall
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    4.0
    21 Reviews
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    Okayama Pref. Bizenshi Imbe 1657-7
    This hall is attached to Inbe Station in Inbe, Bizen City. Besides providing tourism information and selling goods, it exhibits and sells works by members of Bizen yaki tou yu kai (Bizen Ceramics Association), and holds workshops to experience making Bizen-yaki ware on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays (for a fee, reservation required). Every October, the “Bizen Pottery Festival” is held throughout the entire area.

    岡山に来たついでに足を延ばしました。岡山駅からJR赤穂線で30分ほどの伊部駅です。駅舎の2階にあり、たくさんの陶芸家の作品が集まっています。窯元を訪ね歩く時間がなかったので、ここでまとめ買いをしました。

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Overshadowed by Hiroshima to the west and the Kansai region to the east, Okayama is an easy spot to miss but a nature-rich gem where the Seto Inland Sea laps at its toes and peach and grape farms complete its interior. One of Japan’s Three Great Gardens, Koraku-en in Okayama city is well worth a visit before progressing to Kurashiki, where preserved wooden Edo buildings line the picturesque canal.

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