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  • Okayama Kinshu Kaikan
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    3.5
    17 Reviews
    Travel / Tourism
    Okayama Okayama-shi Kita-ku Marunouchi 1-1-15
    This wooden, western-style building was built in 1923. It was originally built as a temperance center, to help rehabilitate those whose lives had been damaged by alcohol. It was used in a variety of temperance related activities. Despite its wooden structure, it survived the bombing of Okayama, and is now a registered Cultural Property with the Agency for Cultural Affairs. The first floor is a religious bookstore and a retro cafe. The second floor and third floor hold rental offices and meeting rooms.

    There is a retro building beside Nishite Yagura scaffold. This used to be an office of anti-smoking movement. It was built in Taisho Time, about 100 years ago. Now it is a coffee shop.

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  • Old Inukai Family Residence
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    4.0
    8 Reviews
    Travel / Tourism
    Okayama Okayama-shi Kita-ku Kawairi 102-1
    This private home building is a nationally designated Important Cultural Property, and is found along the Sanyo Shinkansen tracks about two kilometers north of JR Niwase Station. This was the birthplace of Tsuyoshi Inukai (also known as Bokudo , his pseudonym), a politician active from the Meiji into the early Showa period. The building is believed to date from the mid-Edo period, and is particularly valuable as a well-preserved village-headman's manor. Inside, it holds displays of items, pictures, letters and more related to Inukai. The joists lain across the ceiling in the earthen floor area, and the appearance of the main house still radiate the stately dignity of an official's home. The Inukai Bokudo Memorial Museum is next door, offering even more education about this man once called God of the Constitution.

    「話せばわかる」の犬養毅の生家です。 歴史を感じさせる建物に多数の書物が展示されています。 岡山駅、庭瀬駅からも近いのに、入場無料は驚き。 読み物が多いので、たっぷりと時間のある時に行くべき施設だと思います。

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  • Ashimori Townscape
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    Okayama Okayama-shi Kita-ku Ashimori
    This area overflows with history in the center of Ashimori, in Okayama City's Kita-ku district, and is called the Ashimori City Scape Preservation District. It is centered on Ashimori-rekishifureai-dori avenue, and is lined with many Kurazukuri warehouse-style buildings. The original lord of Ashimori Domain was Kinoshita Iesada, older brother to Toyotomi Hideyoshi's wife Nene, and this town retains the old castle town atmosphere it had at its height back then. It differs from the similar Kurashiki Bikan Historical Quarter's luxurious merchant houses in that Ashimori was a residential district for commoners, and has a much more down to earth atmosphere. Nearby you can find the scenery like the prefecturally designated Places of Scenic Beauty Omizuen garden and Ashimori Historical Garden, historical spots like the birthplace of Ogata Koan, and much more to see.
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  • Old Ashimori Domain Samurai Manor
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    Okayama Okayama-shi Kita-ku Ashimori 752
    This was the residence of the Sugihara family, chief retainer family of the Ashimori domain, and is highly valuable as it retains almost all of the original structure. Located facing Honmachi-dori Street, in the north section of the Ashimori City Scape Preservation District, it stands out for its white walls and Namako (white grid on black slate) earthen-walled nagayamon gate. The main hall has a beam line about 24.5 meters long and an inter-beam span of about 9 meters, and is a single-story building with a thatched hip roof. The small garden, centered around a spring-fed pond in the Enshu style, and tea house are reconstructions, but help to recreate the atmosphere of when the house was lived-in.
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  • Inujima Art Project Seirensho
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    4.0
    20 Reviews
    Travel / Tourism
    Okayama Okayama-shi Higashi-ku Inujima 327-5

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  • Kura Yasukawa Yoshii Water Gate
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    Okayama Okayama-shi Higashi-ku Yoshii
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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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