Kurashiki (Okayama)

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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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Sanbanzezoi-Ryokudo (Chiba)

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Sanbanzezoi-Ryokudo is a seaside greenway for pedestrians and bycycles in Urayasu City.

The skyscraper seen on the other side of Tokyo Bay is Makuhari Shintoshin.

The skyscrapers in Makuhari Shintoshin

A lot of families enjoy clamming on the Sanbanze tidal flat.

A green space along the road

Red clover

White clover

Suckling clover

Shore juniper

Hinode-Kita Park adjacent to Sanbanzezoi-Ryokudo

Yeddo Hawthorn  (Binomial name: Rhaphiolepis umbellata)

Yeddo Hawthorn  (Binomial name: Rhaphiolepis umbellata)

Hinode Fourth Park adjacent to Sanbanzezoi-Ryokudo

Biotope close to Sanbanzezoi-Ryokudo

Asahi-no-Hiroba or Sunrise Plaza        Sanbazezoi-Ryokudo connects to Hinodekaiganzoi-Ryokudo here.

Terraced coast along Hinodekaiganzoi-Ryokudo

Tokyo Bay Tokyu Hotel on the Hinode Kaigan

Bus terminal and Koryu Square in front of the Tokyo Bay Tokyu Hotel

The Koryu Square between the Tokyo Bay Tokyu Hotel and Urayasu Sogo Park

Nikoniko Square or Smile Square in Urayasu Sogo Park

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Magome-juku (Gifu)

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Magome-juku located in Nakatsugawa city, Gifu prefecture, was one of 69 stations on Nakasendo, an ancient road connected Kyoto and Edo in Edo era.

Kousatsu-ba , a street bulletin board which bans and notifications from government were written in Edo era.

Magome-juku was a post town built on both side of a steep slope way.

Toson Memorial Museum       Magome-juku was the birthplace and childhood home of noted author Shimazaki Toson.

Masugata,   a hook shaped road for defenses from enemy invasion.

Restored old water mill       Nowadays it generates electricity to light up nearby streets.

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