Kurashiki is a historic city located in Okayama Prefecture, Japan.
Kurashiki bikan district with traditional white-walled, black-tiled warehouses and lined weeping willows.
We can enjoy the Kurashiki River cruise by a traditional river boat.
Leisurely trip down the Kurashiki River seeing the historical Bikan district.
Nakabashi Bridge, a stone bridge at the center of the Bikan district.
The Bikan district at dusk
The Ohara Museum of Art established in 1930 by Magosaburo Ohara.
The entrance of the Ohara Museum of Art
The Main Gallery displays world-renowned masterpieces such as El Greco's The Annunciation and Claude Monet's Water Lilies.
Heading to the Annex Gallery via the Shinkei-en Garden.
The Shinkei-en Garden is a Japanese garden with 56-tatami hall and a tea-ceremony room.
The Japanese garden in the Shinkei-en Garden
The Annex Gallery
The Craft Art Gallery and the Asiatic Art Gallery, renovated former rice warehouses as a gallery.
The Ohara Museum of Art lighted up
The Kurashiki Ivy Square, former site of a cotton mill factory, is now a complex of brick buildings included a hotel, restaurants and museums.
Before the cotton mill factory, the site was used as Daikannsyo, a direct representative office of the Shogunate under the Edo period.
The Kurashiki Ivy Square Hotel covered in ivy
The courtyard in Kurashiki Ivy Square Hotel
Kurabo Memorial Museum, a museum which illustrates the history of the Kurashiki Boseki (Kurashiki spinning mill) company.
Kurabo Memorial Museum
The Alley to Kurashiki River from The Ivy Square
The Ivy Square in dusk
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