岡山県 · Chugoku Region
Okayama Hidden Gems
The 'land of sunshine' on the Inland Sea — one of Japan's three great gardens, a black castle, and a canal quarter of white-walled warehouses.
4 spots
Climate & Best Season
The driest, sunniest prefecture in Japan, with few rainy days and almost no snow. Comfortable most of the year.
Famous For (Food)
- White peaches
- Muscat grapes
- Barazushi
- Demi-katsudon
Signature Sights
- Korakuen garden
- Kurashiki Bikan quarter
- Okayama Castle
- Kibi Plain cycling route
Okayama
Okayama· Nagi
Nagi Museum of Contemporary Art
Isozaki Arata designed this museum in 1994 around three permanent works rather than around a collection, which is close…
Nagi MOCAIsozaki ArataArakawa Shusaku+2
Okayama
Okayama· Bizen
Shizutani School
Ikeda Mitsumasa, lord of Okayama, founded this school in 1670 in a valley deliberately chosen for its quiet, and made it…
Shizutani SchoolNational TreasureEdo education+2
Okayama
Okayama· Okayama City
Inujima Seirensho Art Museum
A copper refinery opened on Inujima in 1909 and closed ten years later when the copper price collapsed, leaving brick ch…
InujimaSambuichi HiroshiYanagi Yukinori+2
Okayama
Okayama· Okayama City
Maneki-neko Museum
This was the first museum in Japan devoted to the beckoning cat, and it is a hundred-year-old farmhouse in the hills nor…
maneki-nekobeckoning catfolk art+2