History / Culture / Tour Spots in Okayama Area

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Tokeido Station Shop

4.0

2 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Okayama Pref. Bizenshi Imbe 1527

This pottery has been operating for 500 years since the Muromachi period to the present. It is one of the six main families of Bizenyaki pottery, and sells works of the 17th generation artist, Touzan Kimura, and 18th generation artist, Hideaki Kimura. The shop deals in a wide range of items such as accessories and tableware, and tea ceremony accessories. Visitors can experience pottery making (reservations required).

伊部駅からまっすぐ通る通り沿いに大きな煙突があり、通りに面していて、入りやすいです。普段使いできそうな和食器がたくさんあるので、お土産に適しています。
Yanahara Mine Museum

4.0

2 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Okayama Kume-gun Misakicho Kichigahara 349-2

This museum is inside the Yanahara Fureai Mine Park, about a 30-minute drive from Mimasaka Interchange off the Chugoku Expressway. This facility offers a chance to learn about the history and culture that flourished around Asia's premier iron sulfide mine. Up until its closing in 1991, Yanahara mine was a highly productive mine, and at its height produced 900,000 tons of iron sulfide. The mine offers life-size replicas of the mine sets from its heyday, displays cart tracks used to haul ore, and more impressive sights. There are also tours allowing you to see agricultural products grown in the Yanahara mine shafts.

子供が、柵原ふれあい公園の片上鉄道跡を見たいと言うのでそこを訪問したついでに、同じ公園内にあるこの資料館も見学しました。資料館は、旧柵原町の昭和中期のくらしと、ここの旧鉱山の概要、使われていた鉱山技術などの展示がメインでした。展示は妙な組み合わせであるものの、鉱山の展示はなかなか見る機会がなく、面白かったです。
Kibi Kawakami Fureai Manga Museum

3.5

2 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Okayama Takahashi-shi Kawakamicho Jito 1834

This manga art museum is in Kawakami-cho, Takahashi City, which has used manga for community building since 1988. This facility, unusual even for Japan, serves as a place to spread and familiarize manga culture, offer community interaction, and more. The building holds a manga storehouse with over 120,000 volumes, and displays 60,000 ranging from around 1960 to the present day, which you can browse at will. In addition to exhibits of original works and collections by manga artist and honorary Takahashi citizen Ichiro Tominaga, they display grand prix works from the city's Manga Contest, and more, to make this a museum sure to please visitors of all ages.

常時６万冊が揃えてあり、１階の漫画読書室では、いつでも読めるようになっています。２階のごろごろ読書室では寝転がって読めますが、うっかり寝込んでしまう人もいるそうです。名誉館長が富永一朗さんです。30数年前、東京でお目にかかったことがあります。人のいいおじさん、という感じを受けました。入館料は400円。旅の途中でじっくりとマンガを読むというわけにはいきませんが、富永一朗さんの原画が常時展示されていま...
Yubara Onsen Museum

3.0

2 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Okayama Maniwa-shi Yubara Onsen 124

This museum is about a ten-minute drive from Yubara Interchange off Yonago Expressway. It is affectionately known as Yumyu, and was reopened after renovations in April 2012. The second floor displays materials related to the history and folklore of Yubara Onsen, as well as about 10,000 books donated by travel writer Fuyuto Noguchi to browse. The first floor has a multi-purpose hall where you can try slipper ping-pong using slipper-shaped rackets.

theres a little footbath outside, and a hall inside where you can play ping pong/just relax! the ladies here are lovely and super helpful, and will do their best to speak in English to you too. lots...
Hanatori Otsuka Museum

Leisure / Hobbies

Okayama Ibara-shi Takayacho 3-11-5

This museum is run by the Takaya Group, which operates in the Ibara & Fukuyama region. It holds a collection of around 600 pieces, centered around a 300 piece collection of works by Japanese style painter Keika Kanashima, a native of Kannabe-cho, Fukuyama City, Hiroshima. The museum is divided into Exhibition Hall 1 Exhibition Hall 2, and Hanatori Exhibition Hall. The Hanatori Exhibition Hall is designed as a Japanese style room with a Tokonoma alcove, and is used for events like lectures or tea ceremonies.
FAN Museum (Fujiwara Kei Memorial house)

3.0

1 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Okayama Bizen Honami 3868

A two-minute walk from the Koa-mae bus stop or a 15-minute drive from the Wake Interchange. To reach the museum travel west from the Bizen Interchange along National Route 250 and then turn right at the intersection in front of Fujiwara Kei Memorial House Museum. The museum was originally a memorial hall displaying the works of Fujiwara Kei, a Bizen-ware pottery artist who was recognized as a National Important Intangible Cultural Asset, it is now a gallery boasting an international scale displaying Art Olympia award winning works. They hold special events built around the concept of seeing, experiencing, and making including hands-on workshop experiences and tea ceremonies held with tools made by Living National Treasures.

藤原啓先生の作品をたくさん観ることができます。ＦＡＮ美術館と併設、急坂を上がって左に駐車場があって、その右にＦＡＮ美術館、ここで受付して料金支払い、すぐ下の敷地内にあります。静かでゆっくり観ることが出来ました。
Okayama Astronomical Museum

Leisure / Hobbies

Okayama Pref. Asakuchishi Kamogatachouhonjo 3037-5

A 20-minute taxi ride from Kamogata Station on the JR San'yo Main Line. A municipal museum located in Kamogata-cho, Asakuchi City which was recently remodeled in 2018. Here visitors can learn about astronomy through a planetarium where you can experience the seasonally changing night sky, fair weather solar observation, and exhibits on astronomical phenomena and the universe. In the digital space theater, you can experience outer space in four dimensions via exciting 3D imagery. The museum also holds classes on astronomy and events in which participants can experience the scientific wonders found all around in everyday life.
Iyama Hofukuji Temple

Travel / Tourism

Okayama Pref. Soujashi Ijirino 1968

This Zen temple of the Rinzai sect Tofukuji School is famous for being associated with the master painter Sesshu, and is located approximately a 15-minute drive from the Okayama Soja Interchange off of the Okayama Expressway. It commemorates an occasion in Sesshu's childhood when he is said to have depicted a mouse with his tears, thereby impressing the head priest. This Zen temple was one of the influential centers in spreading the religion into the Saikoku region. That which was an old thorn of the Tendai Sect, whose founder is Nichirin Daiajari, Donnan priest took and made it into a new temple in 1232 during the Kamakura era. Throughout the year regularly scheduled zazen meditation events are held but visitors, who wish, may also participate in Zen meditation sessions.
Yurinso

Travel / Tourism

Okayama Pref. Kurashikishi Chuou 1-3-18

A mansion built by businessman Magosaburo Ohara in 1928 for his ailing wife in the Bikan Historical Quarter in Kurashiki City, Okayama Prefecture. The buildings green tiled roof, specially ordered from Senshusakai craftsmen, draws the eyes. The building is also characterized by its unique design combining elements of Japanese, Western, and Chinese architecture. The structure was designed by Ito Chuta, the famed architect behind the Ohara Museum of Art, Yakushiji Temple, and Meiji-jingu Shrine. Western-style painter Torajiro Kojima who renowned garden designer Ogawa Jihei VII were also involved. The mansion is opened to the general public twice a year in spring and fall.
Tsukuriyama Burial Mound

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Okayama Okayama-shi Kita-ku Shinjoshimo

The keyhole-shaped burial mound boasts being the fourth largest in scale nationally. It is estimated that it was built in the first half of the 5th century, with a total length of 350 meters. A large amount of ironware such as mirrors and bells have been excavated, but the entombed person is still a mystery.
Betty Smith Jeans Museum

Leisure / Hobbies

Okayama Pref. Kurashikishi Kojimashimonochou 5-2-70

Betty Smith Jeans Museum and Village is located in Kojima Shimono-cho, 5-chome in the city of Kurashiki. Opened in 2003, it is the first museum devoted to jeans, and its exhibits describe the origin of jeans, their history, the history of domestically produced jeans, the history of Kojima, which is known as a center for manufacturing jeans; as well as some of the machines used in making jeans. Visitors can even order custom-made jeans for themselves.
Komorizuka Burial Mound

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Okayama Pref. Soujashi Kambayashi

Koumorizuka Burial Mound is a National Historic Site located in Kanbayashi in the city of Soja. This large keyhole-shaped mound, 100 meters long, is believed to be the tomb of a ruler in the ancient province of Kibi. At the rounded back end of the tomb is a burial chamber 19.4 meters long, made of huge stones and accessed by a passageway. It is the 4th largest such burial chamber in Japan, and archeologists have found large numbers of clay and metal artifacts in it.
Onsen Yakushido

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Okayama Pref. Maniwashi Yubaraonsen 24

Onsen Yakushido is a temple devoted to Yakushi Nyorai, the Buddha of healing, located in the hot spring resort area of Yubara Onsen in the city of Maniwa. The votive image is an image of Yakushi Nyorai traditionally described as “about as big as one’s little finger.” It is revealed for public viewing on May 8 of each year during the temple’s Flower Festival.
Musashi no Sato

Travel / Tourism

Okayama Pref. Mimasakashi Miyamoto

The area around Miyamoto, Mimasaka City is known as the hometown of the great swordsman Miyamoto Musashi, besides the home where he was born and his grave, there are many spots related to him such as a statue, Musashi-jinja Shrine, a museum displaying related documents, and also the Miyamoto Musashi Station on the local Chizu Express Chizu Line.
Ohara Art Museum Motodate

Leisure / Hobbies

Okayama Kurashiki-shi Chuo 1-1-15 Ohara Art Museum Shikiji
Ohara Museum of Art - Craft Art Gallery & Asiatic Art

Leisure / Hobbies

Okayama Kurashiki-shi Chuo 1-1-15 Ohara Art Museum Shikiji
Uno no Chinu

Travel / Tourism

Okayama Tamano-shi Chikko 1
Kibi Mi Museum

Travel / Tourism

Okayama Kurashiki-shi
'Tenjin''yama Bunka Plaza'

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Okayama Okayama-shi Kita-ku Tenjincho 8-54
OKADEN MUSEUM & MITOOKA EIJI DESIGN

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Okayama Okayama-shi Naka-ku Higashiyama 2-3-33

Okayama

Okayama City / Around Korakuen Kurashiki Tamano Around Bizen and Ushimado Kibiji Takahashi / Fukiya Hiruzen Highland / Tsuyama / Mimasaka Three Hot Springs Ibara / Kasaoka

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Okayama Areas

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.