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Hanatori Otsuka Museum
Centred on the bird-and-flower painter Kinjima Keika, in a small private museum built as one with its garden.
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Chikkyo Art Museum
For a painter of the Inland Sea in high-keyed colour, and the museum lets you watch him leave his teacher's manner behind.
OkayamaArchitectureYakage
Yakage-juku
The only post town where both official inns survive as Important Cultural Properties, with the lords' rooms intact.
OkayamaArchitectureManiwa
Katsuyama and its Noren
One dyer suggested each house hang its own curtain; a preservation district gained a layer of colour.
Maniwa
Katsuyama Bamboo Craft
Farm baskets with no ornament at all - the form held entirely by the strength of the weave.
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Lucky Cat Museum
In an old farmhouse, comparing beckoning cats in clay, papier-mache and porcelain from every district.
Okayama
Ujobori Carving
Named for the castle's nickname: flowers and birds carved in relief on trays and boxes, finished in lacquer.
Kurashiki
Bitchu Washi
Recorded in 8th-century documents; a handful of workshops still make it.
Kurashiki
Tamashima District
A cotton and salt port, with the temple where the monk Ryokan trained on the hill above it.
OkayamaContemporary ArtOkayama
Kofun of the Kibi Road
The fourth-largest keyhole tomb in Japan, and climbable because it is not an imperial grave - evidence Kibi rivalled the capital.
OkayamaContemporary ArtManiwa
Hiruzen Highlands
Grassland kept open by burning it every year - a landscape that exists only because people maintain it.
OkayamaArchitectureTsuyama
Tsuyama Railroad Educational Museum
A fan-shaped locomotive shed and turntable kept working - industrial geometry left legible.
OkayamaArchitectureOkayama
Saidaiji Eyo Festival
Nine thousand naked men contend for a wooden token - a mass of bodies that reads as moving sculpture.
Setouchi
Bizen Swords
The largest of Japan's five sword traditions; roughly half of all National Treasure blades were forged here.
OkayamaArchitectureKurashiki
Kurashiki Ivy Square
An 1889 spinning mill converted rather than demolished - an early case of industrial reuse in Japan.
OkayamaArt & CraftsKurashiki
Kojima Torajiro
The painter who bought the Ohara collection was a painter first; his own canvases show what his eye was trained on.
Takahashi
Takahashi Samurai District
Samurai houses below the mountain castle, where the relation of fortress to town can be read in the terrain.
Mimasaka
Terraces of Mimasaka
Stone-walled terraces along the mountain valleys, drawing the contours into visible lines.
HiroshimaArt & CraftsHiroshima
Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum
Beside a designated scenic garden, and built around artists connected to Hiroshima and the crafts of Asia.
HiroshimaArt & CraftsHiroshima
Hiroshima MOCA
Japan's first public museum devoted to contemporary art, on a hilltop in a Kurokawa building of tile and aluminium.
HiroshimaArt & CraftsHiroshima
Hiroshima Museum of Art
Founded by a local bank as a memorial to those killed by the bomb; its Impressionist holding is among western Japan's best.
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Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
Kenzo Tange set it on axis with the Atomic Dome and lifted it on columns, so passing beneath frames the ruin ahead.
HiroshimaArchitectureHiroshima
Atomic Bomb Dome
A Czech architect's exhibition hall, left as a steel skeleton beside the hypocentre and, after long argument, kept.
HiroshimaArchitectureHiroshima
Peace Memorial Park
Won in competition by Tange: cenotaph, flame and ruin were aligned on one axis, and the city replanned around it.
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