Tools, armoury and Bizen pottery are among the historic artefacts exhibited at this museum, located near the entrance to °¨°ù²¹°ì³Ü-±ð²Ô.
Not to be confused with the Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art to the west of the river.
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°¨°ù²¹°ì³Ü-±ð²Ô draws the crowds with its reputation as one of the three most beautiful gardens in Japan. It has expansive lawns broken up by ponds, teahouses¡
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One of the most beautiful gardens in the country, ¸é¾±³Ù²õ³Ü°ù¾±²Ô-°ì¨±ð²Ô dates from the mid-1600s and took more than a century to complete. Designed as a walking¡
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In Honmura, half a dozen traditional buildings have been turned over to contemporary artists to use as the setting for creative installations, often¡
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This is Kurashiki's premier museum, housing the predominantly Western art collection amassed by local textile magnate ?hara Magosabur¨ (1880¨C1943), with¡
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This kiln and gallery-shop is run by the Kimura family, one of the six original families granted official permission in the early 1600s to produce pottery¡
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Teshima's art 'museum' impresses for its architecture ¨C a monumental concrete shell, forming a low teardrop-shaped dome on the hillside, designed by Tokyo¡
Marukin Soy Sauce Historical Museum
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Sh¨do-shima was famous for its soybeans long before olives arrived, and several old soy-sauce companies are still in business here. Marukin has a small¡
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About 500m north of Yashima station, Shikoku-mura is an excellent village museum that houses old buildings transported here from all over Shikoku and¡
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°¨°ù²¹°ì³Ü-±ð²Ô draws the crowds with its reputation as one of the three most beautiful gardens in Japan. It has expansive lawns broken up by ponds, teahouses¡
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Prominent Taish¨-era artist and poet Takehisa Yumeji (1884¨C1934) is particularly known for his bijin-ga (images of beautiful women), and various wistfully¡
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Nicknamed U-j¨ (žõ³Ç; Crow Castle) because of its colour, the striking black Okayama Castle has an imposing exterior with gilded-fish gargoyles flipping¡
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This is a small museum with exhibits of scrolls, armour and paintings that were once the property of the Ikeda clan (who ruled Okayama for much of the Edo¡
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This sprawling Shint¨ shrine is dedicated to an ancient warrior who subdued a local demon-bandit called Ura and brought the area under central control¡
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The 5th-century Tsukuriyama-kofun is the fourth-biggest kofun tomb (keyhole-shaped burial mound) in Japan. It's thought to mark the final resting place of¡
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A highlight on the Kibiji bicycle route, this temple has a picturesque five-storey, 34m pagoda ¨C famed for being the last pagoda to be built in Japan. The¡
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Steep stone steps lead up to this shrine in Tsurugata-yama-k¨en, a park that overlooks the old area of town. The shrine is home to a wisteria tree thought¡