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Bitchu Sojagu
It enshrines the 324 shrines of Bitchu Province together. The origin of the place name Soja.
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Goryu Sonryuin
One of the head temples of shugendo. A three-storey pagoda stands here.
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Bikanchiku
Goods gathered here as a territory ruled directly by the shogunate. White-walled storehouses line the canal.
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Narukama Shinji
Fortune is read from the sound of a ringing cauldron. It became the subject of a tale in Ueda Akinari's Ugetsu Monogatari.
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Okayama-jo
The black weatherboarding gives it the name Crow Castle. It pairs with Korakuen across the river.
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Shizutani Gakko
Among the oldest public schools for commoners anywhere in the world. Its lecture hall is a National Treasure.
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Bitchu Matsuyama-jo
A surviving keep, standing higher than any other in Japan. It floats on a sea of cloud.
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Kurashiki Bikan
White-walled storehouses of a shogunal territory. The Ohara Museum stands on the same street.
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Ohara Museum
The first museum of Western art in Japan. It holds El Greco's Annunciation.
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Bizen Ware
One of the six ancient kilns of Japan. No glaze: the colour comes from clay and flame alone.
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Saidaiji Eyo
Thousands of naked men contend for the sacred wands. One of the three strange festivals of Japan.
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Kurashiki Museum of Folk Craft
Japan's second folk-craft museum, in converted rice warehouses that are themselves a mingei work.
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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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Japan Rural Toy Museum
Folk toys arranged by district, so the same subject can be watched changing shape from region to region.