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  • Ushimado Shrine
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    Okayama Pref. Setouchishi Ushimadochoushimado 2147
    Ushimado Shrine is located in Ushimado, Ushimado -cho in the city of Setouchi. Some of the earliest members of the Imperial family are enshrined here, including Emperor Ojin and Empress Jingu. A long flight of stone steps leads up from the torii gate near Ushimado Swimming Beach to the shrine, and on the way up the steps, there is an observation point where one can enjoy the view of the ocean off Ushimado.
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  • Kinojozan Visitor Center
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    Okayama Pref. Soujashi Kuro 1101-2
    This facility located in Kuroo, Soja City is for the protection of cultural properties and natural learning. Situated 400 meters from the summit of Mt. Kinojo, designated as a national Historic Site, it consists of the “Furusato to Shizen no Michi Walking Center” with a rest area and lecture rooms as a base of natural observation, and an exhibition building that displays materials related to Kinojo Castle, an old castle on Mt. Kinojo.
  • Mt. Ojigatake
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    Okayama Tamano-shi Shibukawa Hoka
    Ojigatake, a mountain 234 meters above sea level, straddling Tamano City and Kurashiki City, has a unique beauty with its oddly shaped rocks and huge rocks on the mountain surface. Turning north from the west of the Shibukawa coast, a well-maintained road leads to the summit area in about 5 minutes by car. The parking lot is large and free of charge. Walking to the south, one can enjoy a panoramic view of the Seto Inland Sea. The Ojigatake Park Center is a rest facility where visitors can enjoy a spectacular view of the Seto Inland Sea through the glass walls, and there is also a cafe.
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  • Osabana Coast
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    Okayama Asakuchi-shi Yorishimacho Ao Sa
    Located a 20-minute drive from Kamogata Interchange on the Sanyo Expressway. A beach on the edge of Setonaikai National Park located at the point where the foothills of Mt. Aosa sink into the Seto Inland Sea. As part of the Setonaikai National Park you can enjoy the beauty of the archipelago on Seto Inland Sea looking out over Yorishima-enchi Park and the three small Saburo Islands (Mitsuyama) as well as the Kasaoka Islands. The beach's convenient roadside access means that during the beach season it is busy with visitors including families with children. The beach is also a wellknown place to go hunting for mantis shrimp.

    とても小さな海岸ですが、倉敷の街中から車で１時間もかからない好立地です。ただ、福山方面からの海岸沿いの道は道幅が狭く、一部車の離合が出来ないような箇所があるので注意が必要です。

  • Okayama Prefectural Ancient Kibi Cultural Properties Center
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    4.0
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    Okayama Pref. Okayamashi Kita-ku Nishihanajiri 1325-3
    "This museum is located approximately a 20-minute drive from the west exit of JR Okayama Station. It is situated on the southern side of Mt. Kibi-nonakayama, one of the famous mountains appeared in ""The Pillow Book"". As a base for the protection and preservation of buried cultural properties of the prefecture, about 400 excavated items such as Jomon pottery and Yayoi pottery are displayed regularly. It regularly carries out temporary exhibitions, and you can learn more about the history of the local area from the exhibits and panel explanations."

    展示室は小規模ながら、出土品を選りすぐり、コンパクトに縄文時代から中世までの岡山県の歴史を概観できるように工夫してあります。企画展も定期的にやっています。先の口コミの情報は正確ではなく、土日も基本的に開いているようです。

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  • Setouchi City Museum of Art
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    4.0
    3 Reviews
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    Okayama Pref. Setouchishi Ushimadochoushimado 4911 Setouchi City Hall Ushiwa City Market 3/4 F
    This art museum is located along Prefectural Route 28 in the Ushimado-cho area of Ushimado, Setouchi City. It exhibits works including those by the Western painter Satake Toku, known as the “olive painter,” who left paintings with olive garden motifs from his atelier in the olive gardens of Ushimado.

    西大寺駅から路線バスを利用して行きまさした。鉄道利用の場合はバスを利用するしかないようです。『驚愕の超写実展』が開催されていました。写真のように綺麗な作品が多く展示してありました○

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  • Kanba Falls
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    Okayama Pref. Maniwashi Kamba
    This waterfall is located in Kanba, Maniwa City. Known for its beautiful landscape that weaves a 20-meter wide waterfall that falls wildly from a height of 110 meters with the nature of changing autumn leaves and a snowy landscape, it has been chosen as one of Japan’s top 100 waterfalls and is a nationally-designated Place of Scenic Beauty.
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  • Sakazu Park
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    Okayama Pref. Kurashikishi Sakadu 1556
    This park is located in Sakazu, Kurashiki City. It has a multipurpose field, outdoor pool, plaza and large playground equipment. There are water distribution ponds, water gates and irrigation canals under the theme of water and cherry blossoms, and it is popular as a cherry blossom viewing spot in the spring when the approximately 500 trees bloom.
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  • Bicchu Matsuyama Castle sea of clouds Observatory
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    Okamaya cho, Takahashi-shi, Okayama-ken
    This observatory is located in the Okumanda-cho area of Takahashi City. Known as a popular place for seeing a sea of clouds, it is also called the Sea of Clouds Observatory. The clouds occur from late September to early April from dawn to 8 a.m. in the morning (depending on conditions such as weather), and you can see the fantastic sight of Bizen Matsuyama Castle floating in the sea of clouds.
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  • Omiyage Kaido Hare no Kuni
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    3 Reviews
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    Okayama Okayama-shi Kita-ku Ekimotomachi 1-1
    This souvenir shop is on the second floor of Okayama Station, inside the local train ticket gates. They have a wide range of local specialty treats that are perfect Okayama souvenirs, including kibidango dumplings, Ote manju buns, and Murasuzume bean cakes.

    岡山駅在来線改札内の店舗でした。各方面との乗換駅だけあって、岡山県だけでなく山陰方面や四国方面の土産物も充実しており、新幹線乗換前に手土産調達が可能でした。猶、レジは別になっているものの駅弁販売店も同居しておりバラエティに富んだ弁当調達にも便意でした。

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  • Tokeido Station Shop
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    4.0
    2 Reviews
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    Okayama Pref. Bizenshi Imbe 1527
    This pottery has been operating for 500 years since the Muromachi period to the present. It is one of the six main families of Bizenyaki pottery, and sells works of the 17th generation artist, Touzan Kimura, and 18th generation artist, Hideaki Kimura. The shop deals in a wide range of items such as accessories and tableware, and tea ceremony accessories. Visitors can experience pottery making (reservations required).

    伊部駅からまっすぐ通る通り沿いに大きな煙突があり、通りに面していて、入りやすいです。普段使いできそうな和食器がたくさんあるので、お土産に適しています。

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  • Sami Beach
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    Okayama Pref. Kurashikishi Tamashimakurosaki
    This coast is located in the Tamashima Kurosaki area of Kurashiki City. Made up of western and eastern beach area, it was where the first shore reclamation work in Japan took place over six years from 1983. Sami Beach was set up, and the beautiful sandy beach that has been chosen as one of Japan’s top 100 beaches is visited by many beachgoers.
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  • Yanahara Mine Museum
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    4.0
    2 Reviews
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    Okayama Kume-gun Misakicho Kichigahara 349-2
    This museum is inside the Yanahara Fureai Mine Park, about a 30-minute drive from Mimasaka Interchange off the Chugoku Expressway. This facility offers a chance to learn about the history and culture that flourished around Asia's premier iron sulfide mine. Up until its closing in 1991, Yanahara mine was a highly productive mine, and at its height produced 900,000 tons of iron sulfide. The mine offers life-size replicas of the mine sets from its heyday, displays cart tracks used to haul ore, and more impressive sights. There are also tours allowing you to see agricultural products grown in the Yanahara mine shafts.

    子供が、柵原ふれあい公園の片上鉄道跡を見たいと言うのでそこを訪問したついでに、同じ公園内にあるこの資料館も見学しました。 資料館は、旧柵原町の昭和中期のくらしと、ここの旧鉱山の概要、使われていた鉱山技術などの展示がメインでした。展示は妙な組み合わせであるものの、鉱山の展示はなかなか見る機会がなく、面白かったです。

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  • Mimasaka Shiitake-en
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    4.0
    2 Reviews
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    Okayama Mimasaka-shi Kitabara 37
    A five-minute drive from JR Hayashino Station or 10-minutes from the Mimasaka Interchange. This tourism farm is just off of National Route 179 where it runs parallel with the Yoshino River. As the mushrooms are grown indoors you can enjoy shiitake harvesting year-round, rain or shine, and they also offer putter golfing. They have different experiences to enjoy throughout the year such as bamboo shoot harvesting in April and May, rhinoceros beetle and stag beetle catching in July and August, and chestnut collection in September and October. They serve a barbecue set meal and also sell pickled and preserved mushrooms made with their harvested shiitake mushrooms.

    椎茸狩り&椎茸商品のお買い物には５回ほど！ 食事には1度お邪魔させていただきました。 ワンちゃん連れでも、すごく温かく迎えてくれ嬉しかったです。 ここの椎茸は肉厚で大きくて、いつもお土産に！とたくさん買っちゃいます＾＾

  • Yamada Bee Farm
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    Okayama Pref. Tomatagunkagaminochou Tsukadani 785-1
    Yamada Bee Farm is a destination farm in Tsukadani in the town of Kagamino in Tomata County. In the greenhouse and fields on the farm, visitors can enjoy picking strawberries or blueberries, depending on the season, and from May to August, they can observe beehives and try their hands at beekeeping and honey gathering. Throughout the year, visitors can learn how to make beeswax candles. All of these activities are available by reservation only. Throughout the year, visitors can patronize other attractions on the farm: the café, which serves sweets made with honey, the shop, and petting zoo.
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  • Ichiyougama
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    Okayama Pref. Bizenshi Imbe 670
    Ichiyougama Kiln, a source kiln for Bizen pottery, is located along the Sanyo Road in Inbe in the city of Bizen. Visitors can view the process of making Bizen pottery in the onsite studios: creating the clay, forming on the potter’s wheel, and during the semi-annual firing of the kiln in spring and autumn, they can see pottery being put into and removed from the kiln.

    伊部駅から徒歩5分ほど。伊部駅から備前焼のお店が並ぶ通りに入ったところなあります。大きめの店舗で、普段づかいできる器がたくさん販売されています。このあたりにはたくさんお店が並んでいますので、見比べながら好みのものを購入できます。

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  • Shibukawa Kaigan
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    Okayama Tamano-shi Shibukawa 2
    "With a 1-km coastline facing the Seto Inland Sea, it has been selected as one of the ""100 best beaches in Japan,"" ""100 best bathing spots,"" and ""100 best white sand and green pine trees in Japan,"" and is a popular beach in Okayama Prefecture in summer. The view of the ocean changes from moment to moment, and when the weather is fine, the Seto-ohashi Bridge and Otsuchi Island can be seen. The scenery is especially beautiful at dusk in autumn and winter."
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  • Mizushima Observation Deck
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    Okayama Kurashiki-shi Yobimatsu
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  • Kibi Kawakami Fureai Manga Museum
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    Okayama Takahashi-shi Kawakamicho Jito 1834
    This manga art museum is in Kawakami-cho, Takahashi City, which has used manga for community building since 1988. This facility, unusual even for Japan, serves as a place to spread and familiarize manga culture, offer community interaction, and more. The building holds a manga storehouse with over 120,000 volumes, and displays 60,000 ranging from around 1960 to the present day, which you can browse at will. In addition to exhibits of original works and collections by manga artist and honorary Takahashi citizen Ichiro Tominaga, they display grand prix works from the city's Manga Contest, and more, to make this a museum sure to please visitors of all ages.

    常時６万冊が揃えてあり、１階の漫画読書室では、いつでも読めるようになっています。２階のごろごろ読書室では寝転がって読めますが、うっかり寝込んでしまう人もいるそうです。名誉館長が富永一朗さんです。30数年前、東京でお目にかかったことがあります。人のいいおじさん、という感じを受けました。入館料は400円。旅の途中でじっくりとマンガを読むというわけにはいきませんが、富永一朗さんの原画が常時展示されていま...

  • Mt. Washu
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    Kurashiki-shi, Okayama-ken
    A 133 meter tall mountain located in Setonaikai National Park, known as Japan's first national park. The mountain came to be called “Washu” (“eagle wing”) because it resembles an eagle's outstretched wings. From high up on the mountain, visitors can get a sweeping view of the calm Seto Inland Sea and the 50-some islands of various sizes which dot its waters, as well as the Seto-ohashi Bridge. The view from here at night is particularly beautiful and has also been selected as one of Japan's 100 best sunsets.
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Overshadowed by Hiroshima to the west and the Kansai region to the east, Okayama is an easy spot to miss but a nature-rich gem where the Seto Inland Sea laps at its toes and peach and grape farms complete its interior. One of Japan’s Three Great Gardens, Koraku-en in Okayama city is well worth a visit before progressing to Kurashiki, where preserved wooden Edo buildings line the picturesque canal.

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