Kasaoka

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• Roadside Station Kasaoka Bay Farm

  4.0

  59 Reviews

  245-5 Kabuto Minami-cho, Kasaoka-shi, Okayama-ken

  This roadside station is located along National Route 2 in the Kabuto Minamimachi area of Kasaoka City. Besides selling specialty products such as local fresh agricultural products and fresh fish, it also offers buffets using delicious land-based food and seafood of Kasaoka. There is also a snack corner and shop selling freshly baked bread. In addition, you can enjoy flowers throughout the year with the approximately one million sunflowers that bloom in flower fields on Kasaoka Bay’s reclaimed land.

• Kasaoka Horseshoe Crab Museum

  4.0

  35 Reviews

  Okayama Pref. Kasaokashi Yokoshima 1946-2

  Kasaoka Horseshoe Crab Museum is located in Yokoshima in the city of Kasaoka. It contains a large aquarium where visitors can observe adult horseshoe crabs. The museum also contains exhibits about raising juvenile horseshoe crabs and an exhibit of dinosaur skeletons. Adjacent to the museum are Dinosaur Park, which contains models of dinosaurs, and athletic field, and a nature observation park with a horseshoe crab breeding ground.

• Kasaoka Municipal Chikkyo Art Museum

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  10 Reviews

  Okayama Kasaoka-shi Rokubancho 1-17

  This art museum, opened in 1982, is a five-minute taxi ride from JR Kasaoka Station. It's dedicated to share the achievements of Japanese painter Chikkyo Ono with posterity. Many posthumous works have been donated, and it has received support from the national and prefectural governments. Ono's works include gentle paintings that change with the light of the seasons, and indeed offer subtle shifts even through the course of the day, and they almost seem alive with the breath of nature. The museum also holds limited time special exhibits.

• Chuka Soba Idehara

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  8 Reviews

  Okayama Kasaoka-shi Kasaoka 2827

  This ramen shop is in central Sasaoka City, in Okayama prefecture's southwest. This shop, opened in 2004, has only intimate counter seating, and is marked by the large noren curtain across the entrance on the main street. Their menu includes Chuka Soba ramen in regular and large sizes, and rice only. Their clear broth is soy-sauce flavored with rich chicken stock in it. Their noodles are topped with their symbol sliced stewed kashiwa chicken and scallions. Customers can get a regular size at half-off on their birthday!

• Kasaoka Kodai no Oka Sports Park

  5.0

  1 Reviews

  Okayama Pref. Kasaokashi Hashiride 3478-4

  Kasaoka Kodai no Oka Sports Park is located in Hashiride in the city of Kasaoka. It contains sports facilities, such as a baseball diamond and two athletic fields of the appropriate size for playing soccer, as well as a campground with tent sites and a cookhouse, and outdoor recreational equipment.

• Kasaoka General Sports Park

  Okayama Pref. Kasaokashi Heiseichou 63-2

  Kasaoka General Sports Park is an athletic facility in Heisei -cho in the city of Kasaoka. It contains a running track, a soccer field, a general gymnasium with a large and small arena and training rooms, tennis courts, multipurpose fields, a playground, a restaurant, and garden allotments. All these features make it a destination for many activities in addition to sports.

• Kasaoka Bay Reclaimed Land Rape Blossom and Sunflower Fields

  245-5 Kabuto Minami-cho, Kasaoka-shi, Okayama-ken

  These flower fields are located in the Kabuto Nishimachi area of Kasaoka City. You can see the approximately 10 million rape blossoms that bloom from mid-March to early April, poppies that blooms around May, sunflowers that blooms around August, and approximately 30 million cosmos that blooms from September to late October. Events are also held at the adjacent Roadside Station Kasaoka Bay Farm along National Route 2 when the flowers are at their best.

• Kitagishima Shimoura Beach

  Okayama Pref. Kasaokashi Kitagishimachou

  This beach is located in the Kitagishima-cho area of Kasaoka City. An approximately 250 meter beautiful sandy beach where you can look at the islands of the Kasaoka Islands including Obishima Island and Mushima Island, besides the beach houses open in the summer that offer snacks such as island summer vegetable curry, there is also the Shimoura Beach Campground.

• Osaka Pond

  Okayama Kasaoka-shi Osaka

  This is an irrigation-use earth fill dam in Kasaoka City, Okayama prefecture, built to serve irrigation needs for the surrounding 470 hectares of rice paddy fields. The local farmers have long used waterwheel run mills to polish their grain, and the history of this water wheel community goes back to the early Showa period. Today, the area is filled with about 600 Yoshino and double-blossom cherry trees that bloom in spring, offering a lovely walk along the waterways with the water shining pale pink under them. There are also many natural fishing ponds dotting the spaces between the mountains, like Kosaka pond.