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Okayama travel guide
Kibitsu Jinja, Saijo Inari and Bitchu Kokubunji. White peaches and muscat grapes, kibi dango, Bizen ware, and Kojima denim. Okayama, set out category by category.
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297 regional entries. This is not the number of facilities.
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Sightseeing spots
Scenery and town walks. Find the places you want to go.
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Shrines & temples
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Kibitsu Jinja
Its main hall and worship hall are National Treasures. What makes it famous is the corridor, about 360 metres of it, running along the ridge. A roofed walkway that undulates downhill with the lie of the land. That is architecture fitted to a site, not a design meant to be looked at.
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Kibitsuhiko Jinja
It carries the legend of the subduing of Ura. That myth is held to be the original of the Momotaro tale.
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Saijo Inari
Even after the separation of Shinto and Buddhism it did not become a shrine, but kept enshrining Inari as a temple: a rare case. Its formal name is Myokyoji.
Reference scenery of the region · not a photo of this facilitySpecialties & souvenirs
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See all Specialties & souvenirs in Okayama (0)Crafts & industry
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Okayama · Crafts & industry entry
Bizen Ware Traditional Industry Hall
The traditional industry hall in Bizen. It displays unglazed, high-fired stoneware vessels.
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Okayama Prefectural Bizen Ceramics Museum
The ceramics museum in Bizen. It collects and preserves Bizen ware.
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Imbe Kiln Cluster
The kilns of Imbe, Bizen. Climbing kilns are clustered in a town lined with chimneys.
Reference scenery of the region · not a photo of this facilityArt & culture
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Kurashiki · Place · candidate to visit
Kurashiki Museum of Folk Craft
Japan's second folk-craft museum, in converted rice warehouses that are themselves a mingei work.
Reference scenery of the region · not a photo of this facilityKurashiki · Place · candidate to visit
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.
Reference scenery of the region · not a photo of this facilityKurashiki · Place · candidate to visit
Japan Rural Toy Museum
Folk toys arranged by district, so the same subject can be watched changing shape from region to region.
Reference scenery of the region · not a photo of this facility100 Regional Revitalization Picks
100 local highlights chosen by each prefecture. Find candidates in nature, food and experiences.
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Okayama · Place · candidate to visit
Sci-pia Future Museum of Humanity and Science
A science centre in Okayama with a planetarium 15 metres across.
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Kurashiki Denim Street
A street in the Kurashiki Bikan quarter dealing in denim, in the birthplace of Japanese-made jeans.
Reference scenery of the region · not a photo of this facilityTransport and accommodation, too
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