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A shogunal depot town of white storehouses along a canal, its cables buried to keep the view.
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The Kurashiki Bikan Historical Quarter (Kurashiki Bikan historical quarter) is a townscape preservation district and tourist district in Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture. The area was defined under Kurashiki's Bikan District Landscape Ordinance and includes all of Honmachi in the city, the northern part of Chuo 1-chome (Maegamicho and others), and parts of Higashimachi, Achi 2-chome and Tsurugata 2-chome.
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Founded / opened：Edo period Highlights / collection：Storehouses with white and namako walls, Willows along the Kurashiki River Genre：Architecture
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