Other Store Spots in Kurashiki Area

  • Ohara Museum of Art Museum Shop
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    Okayama Kurashiki-shi Chuo 1-1-15 Ohara Art Museum
    A 15-minute walk from JR Kurashiki Station. A shop located within Ohara Museum of Art, Japan's first western modern art museum, situated on the corner of Kurashiki Bikan Historical Quarter. They sell art books and merchandise such as stationary decorated with motifs of the art in the museum's collection. In particular they offer a wide selection of postcards decorated with the works of artists including El Greco, Monet, Gauguin, and Picasso. Also popular is the Original Book Tin Cookies which come in a tin shaped like a book and decorated with a print of a classic novel. You can enter the shop without entering the museum.

    今回は美術館には寄らず、美観地区散策の際にミュージアムショップにだけ寄りました。 25年以上前は、美術館や展覧会でポストカードなど買うと100円くらいしましたが、 その当時は、こんなにおしゃれなミュージアムショップなどはなかったけれど 大原美術館は美術館本体の内容もお値段以上でしたが(笑)、 びっくりするくらいポストカードとかが安くって、たくさん買いました。 ほとんどは手紙など送って使い切ってしま...

  • Lifestyle Design Museum Kurashiki Hayashi Genjuro Shouten
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    Okayama Pref. Kurashikishi Achi 2-23-10 Hayashi Genjiro Shop Main building 2F
    This is a select shop & cafe that sells clothing, food items and household items. It is located on the second floor of the main building in the shopping complex which is the restored wooden Western-style Hayashi Genjuro Shoten building from the early Showa period. The shop sells superb dishes and goods from Scandinavia and around the world, and items made by local Kurashiki and also national creators such as, excellent life design items. The cafe is a sister store of the popular Kurashiki cafe Miyake Shoten, and guests can enjoy eating seasonal sweets such as the famous Kurashiki Roman while touching the world class chairs and tableware sold in the shop. There are also seats on the roof to enjoy the townscape of the Bikan Historical Quarter.
  • Iseya
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    Okayama Pref. Kurashikishi Honmachi 4-5
    Iseya provides a soothing space for adults and children to enjoy, offering European wooden toys and crafts, wooden toys and marionettes by Japanese artisans, and a wealth of other crafts conveying the warmth of paper and wood. Their original masking tape made in collaboration with Kuralica is cute. Eight minutes by car from JR Kurashiki Station.
  • Tatami-Beri Factory Shop FLAT (Kojima Main Store)
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    Okayama Kurashiki-shi Kojimakarakoto 2-2-53
    A 20-minute drive from the Kojima Interchange on the Seto Chuo Expressway. This shop is operated by the Takata Orimono textile company, who are responsible for manufacturing over 35% of Japan's Tatami-beri, the colorful fabric that lines tatami mats, and here you'll find both Tatami-beri and other related merchandise. They offer more than 1000 styles of Tatami-beri as well as original goods made from their cute and modern Tatami-beri fabrics including coin purses, pouches, and coasters. Their shark-shaped Tatami-Beri-Shark makes for a perfect smartphone case. You can also place orders for special hand-made designs and tours are available with prior reservation.
  • Kurashiki Glass Kurashiki Tenmanya
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    Okayama Kurashiki-shi Achi 1-7-1 Tenmanya Kurashiki
  • Pottery Kurashiki Tenmanya
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    Okayama Kurashiki-shi Achi 1-7-1 Tenmanya Kurashiki
  • Bizen Ware Kurashiki Tenmanya
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    Okayama Kurashiki-shi Achi 1-7-1 Tenmanya Kurashiki
  • PlainFact
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    Okayama Kurashiki-shi Tamashima 3-24-21
  • Nakahara Sanpoudo Sasaoki
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    Okayama Kurashiki-shi Sasa Oki 1257-1
  • Mokuzo home ogawatateyoshi
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    Okayama Pref. Kurashikishi Tsurajimachou Tsurajima 111
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    Okayama Kurashiki-shi Honmachi 5-12

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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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