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.

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Climate & Best Season

The driest, sunniest prefecture in Japan, with few rainy days and almost no snow. Comfortable most of the year.

Katsuyama was a post town on the Izumo highway and became Okayama's first designated townscape preservation district in…

Hiruzen is a plateau at 500 to 600 metres under three peaks in Okayama's far north, and it is where roughly a fifth of e…

Sunayu is a set of open-air baths on the bed of the Asahi river, directly under the 73-metre wall of the Yubara dam, whe…