Culture Kurashiki Autumn Festival 2025 Ellice Tan Okayama's Kurashiki Autumn Festival - A day roaming amongst goddesses and demons
9 Culture Historical Kurashiki Bikan at Night Masayoshi Hirose In central Japan's Okayama prefecture, Kurashiki is a handsome historical town. After sunset, its Bikan district is illuminat...
14 Culture The Bikan District, Kurashiki Ben Beechey The Bikan district in Kurashiki has a long history. It is home to many 17th century warehouses that sit along a picturesque r...
7 Culture Kurashiki Bikan Historical Area in Okayama Lily The Kurashiki Bikan Historical area in Kurashiki City, Okayama is a traditional Edo era townscape. It and the surrounding riv...
11 Culture Dusk in the Kurashiki Bikan Quarter Leslie Taylor As the sun goes down and the colors of dusk appear, the Kurashiki Bikan Historical Quarter in Okayama Prefecture becomes a pe...
Culture New Collection Exhibition - Kurashiki City Art Museum 2021 Kim Bergström A special exhibition taking place at the Kurashiki City Art Museum looks at new items in the museum's collection. The event w...
Culture Kurashiki’s Cotton Story Arlene Bastion Kurashiki spun good from bad with its lucky choice to grow cotton when rice crops failed. It is now Japan's leading producer ...
Culture Achi Shrine's Zodiac Sanctum Arlene Bastion No better place to rest in Kurashiki than in quiet Achi Shrine, made interesting with a Zodiac sanctum, a smaller sub-shrine...
Culture Toki Okamoto Exhibition 2020 Kim Bergström Toki Okamoto (1903-1986) was a Western-style painter from Kurashiki, who moved to Kobe and then Tokyo in 1920 to pursue his a...
Culture Osaka to Hiroshima: Stop on the Way Peter Sidell Plenty of visitors to Japan head directly straight from Osaka to Hiroshima, but there's a lot to see and do in between! Here'...
