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Ohara Museum of Art
Japan's first museum of Western art, built on paintings a Kurashiki industrialist sent his own painter to Europe to buy.
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Kurashiki Bikan District
A shogunal depot town of white storehouses along a canal, its cables buried to keep the view.
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Kurashiki Archaeological Museum
In an Edo rice store on the same canal as the folk-craft museum, on the tomb culture of the Kibi region.
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Ohashi Residence
A merchant family enriched by salt and land reclamation, permitted a samurai-style gate their rank shows off.
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Former Nozaki Residence
The house of a salt-field magnate, its parlours and six storehouses surviving intact across a hectare.
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Okayama Orient Museum
One of Japan's few museums of the ancient Near East, grown from a local collector's gift.
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Okayama Castle
Clad in black-lacquered boards and nicknamed the crow castle, on an irregular pentagonal base.
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Kibitsu Shrine
Two hipped-gable roofs joined side by side in a form found in only this one building, with a 360-metre corridor down the hill.
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Inujima Seirensho Art Museum
A ruined copper refinery turned museum without demolition, conditioned by sun and geothermal air alone.
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Inujima Art House Project
On an island of some fifty people, Sejima scattered transparent pavilions so that walking becomes the exhibition.
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Shizutani School
Among the world's oldest schools built for commoners, roofed in Bizen tile and ringed by 765 metres of rounded stone wall.
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Nagi Museum Of Contemporary Art
The artworks were chosen first and the building designed around them - including a cylinder with Ryoanji's rock garden on its inner wall.
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Joto District, Tsuyama
A merchants' quarter along the old Izumo highway, 1.2 kilometres of Edo and Meiji townhouses.
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Fukiya Village
A copper and red-ochre town where every house is painted in the pigment it made, under matching red tiles.
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Hirokane Residence
Castle-scale stone walls raised on a mountainside to carry one house - copper and pigment money made visible.
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Bitchu Matsuyama Castle
The highest of Japan's twelve surviving keeps, its walls built straight onto the natural rock.
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Raikyuji Garden
An early garden by Kobori Enshu, made in his twenties: clipped azalea as waves, stones as islands.
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Yakage-juku
The only post town where both official inns survive as Important Cultural Properties, with the lords' rooms intact.
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Bitchu Kokubunji
A five-storey pagoda standing alone in farmland, an Edo tower on a Nara temple site - two eras in one view.
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Katsuyama and its Noren
One dyer suggested each house hang its own curtain; a preservation district gained a layer of colour.
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Tamashima District
A cotton and salt port, with the temple where the monk Ryokan trained on the hill above it.
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Tsuyama Railroad Educational Museum
A fan-shaped locomotive shed and turntable kept working - industrial geometry left legible.