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Hiruzen Highland / Tsuyama / Mimasaka Three Hot Springs

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Tsuyama Castle (Kakuzan Park)

4.0

185 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Okayama Pref. Tsuyamashi Sange 135

This castle ruin park is located near the Tsuyama Wonder Museum in Tsuyama City. One of Japan's three major mountain castles, it once had 60 towers and was built by Mori Ranmaru's younger brother Mori Tadamasa on Mt. Kaku. Although all buildings were destroyed with the ordinance for the disposal of castles, the Bichu Yagura was restored as a characteristic building of a mountain castle in 2005 and is open to the general public. The ruins of the castle became Kakuzan Park, and is also famous as a place for viewing cherry blossoms that was chosen as one of Japan's Top 100 Cherry Blossom Spots, and has particularly splendid night cherry blossoms illuminated by small lamps with paper shades.

This is my first time visiting to this castle! Its really nice during Tsuyama sakura festival although its a little bit late to see sakura flowers. The castles compound is very big and the city...
Hiruzen Kogen Center Joyful Park

4.0

80 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Okayama Pref. Maniwashi Hiruzenkamifukuda 1205-197

A comprehensive leisure facility located on the Hiruzen Plateau, a resort area in Maniwa City, Okayama Prefecture famed for its soothing, pastoral scenery. The amusement park at the center of the facility has a numerous fun attractions for you to enjoy, including a Ferris wheel, two story merry go round, roller coasters, and go-carts. Other popular facilities include the Hiruzen Hana no Mori, a garden where some 15 thousand rhododendrons spanning 100 varieties bloom and the Saru-en and Tori-en zoo exhibits, where you can see cute animals. In the facility’s restaurants, you can enjoy Jingisukan mutton barbecue, a Hiruzen specialty, with a special secret recipe sauce; as well as Hiruzen yakisoba, a local favorite cheap eat.

Rather for small children, althought we enjoyed ferris wheel - great view from the top. Decorations are colourful and cute. We had good coffee with delicious cream on the top at the cafe here.
Tsuyama Railroad Educational Museum

4.0

64 Reviews

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Okayama Pref. Tsuyamashi Otani

This museum is located in Otani, Tsuyama City. Built in 1936 in Tsuyama Station, centering on the former Tsuyama Depot roundhouse that would be the second largest among those that exist in Japan today, it displays dioramas and various train exhibits about diesel multiple units and diesel locomotives.

年少の子供といきました。結果大満足！全体的にコンパクトにまとまった展示は子供からしたらちょうどいいサイズのようでした。正直あまり期待せずにいきましたが子供が鉄道を自然に学べる仕掛けがあり、切り替えのスイッチにハマり何度も順番待ちをして繰り返し遊んでいました。作りがとても良く大人から見ても楽しい展示でした。また近くの路線を走る電車を眺めていたらちょうど電車が来たのですが、運転手さんが手を振替して...
Hiruzen Herb Garden 'HerBill'

4.5

39 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Okayama Pref. Maniwashi Hiruzennishikayabe 1480-64

The Hiruzen Herb Garden “HerBill” has around 10,000 lavender plants and approximately 200 different species of herbs, flowers and other plants. Visitors can enjoy the sight of seasonal flowers in bloom in the bracing air of a highland plateau. There is a restaurant and café serving dishes made with freshly-picked herbs and edible wild plants, and also a shop selling local specialty products. “HerBill” also has a workshop where visitors can try their hand at making floral wreaths, and in the summer visitors can enjoy picking their own lavender.

Good spot to relax with a cup of tea and lavender soft serve. You can see all three picks of Hiruzen mountain from here. The garden is smaller than we expected but its pretty.
Nagi Museum Of Contemporary Art (Nagi MOCA)

4.0

24 Reviews

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Okayama Pref. Katsutagunnagichou Toyosawa 441

This art museum is located in the Toyosawa area of Nagi Town, Katsuta County. Designed by architect Isozaki Arata with a huge work produced by Arakawa Shusaku + Madeline Gins, Okazaki Kazuo and Miyawaki Aiko, the museum is the combination of a piece of art and a building. There is a gallery space that holds temporary modern art exhibitions and a cafe inside. In addition, the Nagi Town Library is adjacent to the museum.

There is a museum at the foot of Mt.Nagi.There are Three works in this museum. The name of the artwork is the sun,the moon and the earth.Only this works that appeal to the senses can only be...
Tsuyama Wonder Museum

4.5

20 Reviews

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Okayama Tsuyama-shi Sange 98-1

A 10-minute walk from JR Tsuyama Station. Located at the entrance to Tsuyama Castle, this natural history museum features stuffed animals from every corner of the globe. Their permanent exhibit features nearly 20,000 exhibits of stuffed animals, fossils, minerals, shells, insects, and human specimens spread throughout 13 exhibition rooms. They have nearly 800 stuffed animals including some in danger of extinction such as the golden snub-nosed monkey, low-land gorilla, and the Amur leopard. There are a lot of animals that are no longer obtainable. The organs of Morimoto Keizo, the founder of the museum, are also on display as per his will.

剥製の展示がとにかく凄いです。総展示数は約20,000点ということで、量も質も大変充実していました☆実際に生では見れないだろう動物さんも、こうして間近で見ることができて良かったです。それぞれの雰囲気がよく分かりました(^^) また、ヒトの臓器も展示してありました。流石にこれにはビックリ仰天でした(^^;)館内には、休憩などに座れるスペースやウォーターサーバーがあります。エレベーターはありませんの...
Japan Museum of Contemporary Toy & Hall of Music Box

4.5

36 Reviews

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Okayama Pref. Mimasakashi Yunogou 319-2

A three-minute walk from the Yunogo Onsen-shimo bus stop on the Uno Bus leaving from Okayama Station. This toy and music box museum celebrated its 15th anniversary in 2010. The museum displays around 600 traditional toys such as European building blocks, as well as 30 music boxes and mechanical dolls made more than a century ago. Toy classes are held in the museum's studio space, and visitors can experience the fun of creating as well as the fun of playing with toys. The history and workings of music boxes are presented in the music box concert hall.

In this nice quiet onsen town we didnt expect to find such an interesting place. This place isnt just for kids as Im sure mums and dads will love it just as much. At the time of writing this...
Yanahara Fureai Mine Park,

3.5

12 Reviews

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Okayama Pref. Kumegunmisakichou Kichigahara 394-2

Yanahara Fureai Mine Park is located in Kichigahara in the town of Misaki in Kume County. It is built around the remnants of Kichigahara Station on the Katakami Railroad, which was used to ship iron ore, and surrounding train yard. In addition to the Kichigahara station building, visitors can see well-preserved freight cars and passenger cars, and demonstration run of the preserved train cars is held once a month. Exhibits in the onsite museum recreate the appearance of a mine and mining town from around 1955.

駐車場に停車して線路のあたりを歩いていたらドアの開閉音やエンジン音について一方的に。他の利用者が来るたびに叫び怒鳴っていたので無差別的犯行であり危険と判断し帰宅しました。とても残念です。t
Bell Peel Natural Park

4.0

6 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Okayama Mimasaka-shi Ushiroyama 1590-3

A 25-minute drive from Ohara Station on the Chizu Express or 30-minutes from the Sayo Interchange. This nature park is located on the border of Okayama Prefecture and Hyogo Prefecture midway up Mt. Hinakurasan, sometimes called the Mimasaka Mt. Fuji due to it resembling the sight of Mt. Fuji from the Okayama side. This is a great location from which you can look out at Mt. Hyonosen, Mt. Nagisan, Shodoshima Island, and the other surrounding mountains and seas. The pure white arch shaped belfry is home to a large Rueben Bell symbolizing love and is Japan's largest swinging bell. Permits are given for of course weddings but also for costume photography.

多くの物はないが、大きな門と鐘、愛を語るオブジェが飾られている。ほかではあまり見られない独特な空間で過ごすことが出来る。春または秋に訪れるのが望ましいと思います。
Yubara Onsen Museum

3.0

2 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Okayama Maniwa-shi Yubara Onsen 124

This museum is about a ten-minute drive from Yubara Interchange off Yonago Expressway. It is affectionately known as Yumyu, and was reopened after renovations in April 2012. The second floor displays materials related to the history and folklore of Yubara Onsen, as well as about 10,000 books donated by travel writer Fuyuto Noguchi to browse. The first floor has a multi-purpose hall where you can try slipper ping-pong using slipper-shaped rackets.

theres a little footbath outside, and a hall inside where you can play ping pong/just relax! the ladies here are lovely and super helpful, and will do their best to speak in English to you too. lots...
Hiruzenkogen Camping Ground

Leisure / Hobbies

Okayama Maniwa-shi Hiruzenkamifukuda
Tsugurokogen Camping Ground

Leisure / Hobbies

Okayama Maniwa-shi Hiruzenshitao 1080-1
Tom Sawyer Adventure Village

Leisure / Hobbies

Okayama Pref. Mimasakashi Ute 1317-1

A lodging and activity center located in Mimasaka City. With a shallow river play and fishing area, indoor and outdoor play facilities, and campground, visitors can enjoy a Tom Sawyer-like adventure surrounded by natural beauty. The facility's riverfront cottages and log houses have kitchens and plumbing, ensuring a comfortable stay. Feel like an adventurer with river fishing, super long slides, and other fun things to do. The facility also offers day trip camping. Those staying the night can take in beautiful star-filled skies.
Makiba no Yakata

Leisure / Hobbies

Okayama Pref. Kumegunmisakichou Kita 2272

This interactive facility is in a corner of the Institute of Animal Production at the Okayama Prefectural Technology Center for Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in the Kita area of Misaki Town, Kume County. Inside the park with a promenade, there is a plaza where you can interact with animals, adventure playground, dog park, lavender garden and herb garden. In addition, there is also a workshop that manufactures and sells dairy products, ham and sweets, restaurants and a barbecue terrace.
Kanba Falls Natural Park

Leisure / Hobbies

Okayama Pref. Maniwashi Kamba

This prefectural natural park that is the entire area of Kanba Falls 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 is a designated national site of scenic beauty. In addition, there are about 200 wild monkeys that inhabit the surrounding area.
Hinoki Herbal Dyeing and Weaving Gallery

Leisure / Hobbies

Okayama Maniwa-shi Katsuyama 193

This dyeing workshop and gallery is about a 10-minute walk from JR Chugoku-Katsuyama Station. The workshop is at the back of the shop, and the noren curtains used in the Katsuyama Townscape Preservation District are made here. The gallery is housed in a remodeled sake brewery building that's about 250 years old, and it displays and sells plant-dyed coasters, tenugui towels, handkerchiefs, and more, as well as taking orders for custom noren curtains and tapestries.
Hiruzen Shiogama Fish Center

Leisure / Hobbies

Okayama Maniwa-shi Hiruzenshimofukuda 27-4

This fishing pond is about a 10-minute drive from Hiruzen Interchange off the Yonago Expressway. They stock seven species of fish raised with care in Shiogama Cold Spring water, named one of Japan's Top 100 Famous Waters, and you can enjoy pole fishing or catching them by hand! You can rent fishing tackle, and take your catch home, or cook it on one of the mini grills they offer, as well. Shiogama Cold Spring runs at 11 degrees centigrade year-round, so hand catching is offered only in summer for small children. You can also eat hand-caught fish on the spot.
Tsuyama City Kume General Culture and Sports Park Municipal Pool Rainbow

Leisure / Hobbies

Okayama Tsuyama-shi Nakagitashimo 1253

A 10-minute drive from the Innosho Interchange on the Chugoku Expressway. This municipal pool located within the Tsuyama City Kume General and Cultural Athletic Park includes an open-year-round indoor heated pool. In addition to a variety of pools suitable for all ages including a children's pool, jacuzzi pool, and swimming pool they also feature a low temperature sauna and exercise equipment. During the summer season they open their outdoor pool which has a lazy river and water slides. They offer a variety of classes ideal for promoting healthy activities including children's swimming classes and adult focused Pool Lessons and Studio Exercise Lessons.
Valentine Park Sakuto

Leisure / Hobbies

Okayama Mimasaka-shi Emi 945

A five-minute drive from either the Sakuto Interchange or JR Mimasaka-Emi Station. This multi-purpose park sits atop a small hill and was created because of the sister city relationship shared between Sakuto, Mimasaka City and Saint Valentine City in France. The park has a theme of Love with original statues by French artists and a symbolic love fountain. The park is also home to other facilities including a hotel popular for weddings with a skilled French restaurant that's considered a holy ground for couples and an art museum. In December they hold special evening illumination light ups.
Mimasaka Sakuto Museum of Art

Leisure / Hobbies

Okayama Mimasaka-shi Emi 945 Mimasaka-shi Sakuto Bunka Art Center

A five-minute drive from either the Sakuto Interchange or JR Mimasaka-Emi Station. This art museum is located within Valentine Park Sakuto and when not holding special exhibitions displays works by French artist Raymond Peynet of world renown. The collection includes nearly 140 pieces covering a variety of disciplines including watercolors, oil paintings, and art prints. The works on display are changed four times a year and are appealing for their simple, cute designs of lovers and couples. The museum is also the host for the Mimasaka Valentine Love art exhibition.

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Okayama Areas

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.