Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama | Japan Travel Guide
Ohara Museum of Art ( 大原美術館 )
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Established in 1930, this is Japan’s first private art museum to display Western and contemporary art. Located within Kurashiki City’s Bikan Quarter, the buildings constructed to look like old Japanese rice granaries and Greek temples are also attractive.
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Okayama Koraku-en, Okayama | Japan Travel Guide
Okayama Koraku-en ( 岡山後楽園 )
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Koraku-en is known as a daimyo (feudal lord) garden with a view of the castle. It has an area of 13 hectare, and has a lawn that is quite unusual for a Japanese garden. The scenic views from Yuishinzan Hill and Enyo-tei House along with the changing landscape throughout the seasons are popular.
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Okayama Castle
Kurashiki Ivy Square
Kurashiki Bikan Historical Quarter
Ohara Museum of Art
Kurashiki Denim Street
Chichu Art Museum
ANDO MUSEUM
Art House Project
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Okayama Castle, Okayama | Japan Travel Guide
Okayama Castle ( 岡山城 )
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Okayama Castle was constructed in 1597 by daimyo Hideie Ukita. The black siding on the walls of the castle tower gave the castle in those days a distinctive appearance. The current tower is a restoration built in 1966. The interior of the castle has been made into a museum where you can also try on some kimono for free.
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Okayama Koraku-en
Kurashiki Ivy Square
Kurashiki Bikan Historical Quarter
Ohara Museum of Art
Kurashiki Denim Street
Chichu Art Museum
ANDO MUSEUM
Art House Project
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Okayama is the capital city of its namesake prefecture, in western Japan. It’s known for the 16th-century Okayama Castle, dubbed “Crow Castle” for its black exterior, and for Korakuen, an iconic formal garden.
The Hayashibara Museum of Art shows East Asian art and artifacts. The Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art displays regional works. To the west, 15th-century Kibitsu-jinja Shrine features a long, covered walkway.
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Our travel continues to KURASHIKI a famous gem, stunningly beautiful city in Okayama prefecture that is the neighbor of Hiroshima prefecture. It is said that their Merchants Quarter is the most beautiful in whole Japan, with buildings from Edo Era (1603-1867) preserved till today and a lovely inner canal lined up with willow trees and Sakura Cherry Blossom and patrolled by a Swan and kept clean by fishes. Let's discover it little by little on a stunning spring warm sunny day in bloom.
Kurashiki is a city on Japan’s Seto Inland Sea. It’s known for the centuries-old buildings and shops of the Bikan Historical Quarter. The city served as an important rice distribution center. In fact, the name Kurashiki can be roughly translated as town of storehouses in reference to the rice storehouses.
Many of Kurashiki's former storehouses have been converted into museums, boutiques and cafes. The Ohara Museum is the most impressive of Kurashiki's museums, exhibiting a large collection of works by famous Western artists. The canal area is a ten minute walk from Kurashiki Station.
The Ohara Museum of Art has works by European masters such as El Greco and Monet. Nearby, Japan Rural Toy Museum displays toys from the 1600s to the 1980s. The Archaeological Museum has artifacts from the region’s ancient cultures. Boats cruise the district’s narrow central canal.
Japan Travel:Okayama Artists Collections at the Prefectural Museum of Art, Okayama18 Moopon
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Okayama’s Prefectural Museum of Art is a large building located near Korakuen Garden and Okayama Castle. Within the halls of the museum, visitors can find works from artists who share some connection to Okayama Prefecture. Temporary exhibits are also displayed in the museum and visitors can enjoy an array of collections here.
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**10 minutes walk from either Korakuen Garden or Okayama Castle
Hours: 9:00 to 17:00 (entry until 16:30)
Closed: Mondays (if Monday is a national holiday, the museum is closed the following day) as well as from December 28th to January 4th. There are irregular closures between exhibitions
Admission: 350 yen
English Information: None
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Kurashiki Bikan Historical Quarter, Okayama | Japan Travel Guide
Kurashiki Bikan Historical Quarter ( 倉敷美観地区 )
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This was first a flourishing merchants’ quarter in the Edo Era. It then gained attention afterwards as the buildings of Western architecture integrated themselves into the white walled townscape with the river lined with willow trees. It is a nationally designated Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings.
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Ohara Museum of Art
Kurashiki Denim Street
Kurashiki Ivy Square
Okayama Castle
Okayama Koraku-en
Art House Project
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Visit to Yumeji Seika Museum in Oku, Okayama Prefecture: Q2 Japan
Q2 Japan visits the Yumeji Seika (or Yumeji Birth-place Museum) in Oku city, of Okayama prefecture. It's a hidden gem in a rural land, but definitely worth visiting if you're in the area.
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Ohara Cotton producers and merchants became very rich in Kurashiki and could afford to purchase an amazing collection of Western Art and then dedicate museums to it. We will not have time to enter the museum because they don't allow filming inside and on top of it, it closes at 5pm and at that time EVERYTHING ELSE is also shutting down in this rich resort town city center, but at least we will get the feel of it from what the architecture and gardens have to say!
Here their official info: In 1930, to commemorate Kojima Torajiro, a Western-style painter who died the previous year, Kurashiki entrepreneur, Ohara Magosaburo, founded the Ohara Museum of Art. This private museum, featuring Western art, is the oldest in Japan.
Magosaburo, well-known as a collector of Japanese art, highly respected Torajiro’s talent and his humble attitude towards art, and sent Torajiro to Europe three times. Torajiro studied art in Europe and, at the same time, with Magosaburo’s superb European artwork, choosing pieces through the sense of beauty that he possessed as a Japanese artist.
Torajiro, who had a spirit typical of Meiji Era, felt there was a struggle between the highlights of Western art and his Japanese aesthetic sense, when he carefully chose artwork. He prudently chose masterpieces by El Greco, Gauguin, Monet, Matisse and other artists and brought them to Kurashiki, which are now the main features of the Ohara Museum of Art. His collection of Chinese and Egyptian art reveals the conflict of beauty between Western and Oriental art that he faced, where he tried to seek the essence of art.
The Ohara Museum of Art plays an active role in Kurashiki, expanding the collection to include both modern and contemporary art from the West and Japan, as well as pieces by artists who served Mingei Movement (Japanese Folk Art Movement). Now the museum is well known to the world as a private museum with its own character, reflecting Japanese culture.
The Ohara Museum of Art, in addition to opening the eyes of children and adults on site, spends time and energy on distance learning programs through the information communication technology (IT). As an art museum that will actively live through the 21st century, it also serves for broad activities cultivating the frontier of art. Art Lectures are held every summer, and Gallery Concerts, inviting world-class musicians, are part of its activities.
Ryo Kato - Painting Performance in the Okayama Prefecture Museum, 2015
Painting Performance of Ryo Kato in the Okayama Prefecture Museum.
The exhibition I-shi prize winner Okayama Prefecture Museum Okayama Japan (2015 November. 6th - December. 13th )
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Kurashiki Denim Street, Okayama | Japan Travel Guide
Kurashiki Denim Street ( 倉敷デニムストリート )
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Kurashiki Denim Street has shops selling nationally popular denim made in the Kojima district of Kurashiki City which has been seen as the birthplace of Japanese denim. The denim, whether it’s used in things such as jeans, one-piece dresses, and small articles, is of high quality, and its products which are known all over the world are available in great supply. At the food court, there is the popular ice cream with a blue color associated with denim.
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Kurashiki Bikan Historical Quarter
Ohara Museum of Art
Kurashiki Ivy Square
Okayama Castle
Okayama Koraku-en
Art House Project
Naoshima
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Chichu Art Museum
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Ohara Museum of Art, Kurashiki city, Okayama pref.
Ohara Museum of Art, Kurashiki city, Okayama pref.
Kurashiki, Japan - Full Tour (2019)
Kurashiki (倉敷市 Kurashiki-shi) is a historic city located in western Okayama Prefecture, Japan, sitting on the Takahashi River, on the coast of the Inland Sea.
As of March 31, 2017, the city has an estimated population of 483,576 and a population density of 1,400 persons per km². The total area is 355.63 km².
The modern city of Kurashiki was founded on April 1, 1928. Previously, it was the site of clashes between the Taira and Minamoto clans during the Heian period. It gradually developed as a river port. During the Edo period, it became an area directly controlled by the shogunate. Distinctive white-walled, black-tiled warehouses were built to store goods. During the Meiji Restoration (Japan's Industrial Revolution period), factories were built, including the Ohara Spinning Mill, which still stands as the nostalgic tourist attraction Ivy Square.
On August 1, 2005, the town of Mabi (from Kibi District), and the town of Funao (from Asakuchi District) were merged with Kurashiki.
Kurashiki is the home of Japan's first museum for Western art, the Ohara Museum of Art. Established in 1930 by Magosaburō Ōhara, it contains paintings by El Greco, Monet, Matisse, Gauguin, and Renoir. The collection also presents fine examples of Asian and contemporary art. The main building is designed in the style of Neoclassicism.
The old merchant quarter is called the Bikan historical area. It contains many fine examples of 17th century wooden warehouses (kura, 倉) painted white with traditional black tiles, along a canal framed with weeping willows and filled with koi. The area has no electric poles in order to make it more closely resemble the look of the Meiji period. One of the city's former town halls was located in the Kurashiki Kan, a European style building constructed in 1917.
In 1997 a theme park called Tivoli (after the park of the same name in Copenhagen) opened near Kurashiki Station. After ten years of operation it was closed in 2008, with a massive debt.
The Great Seto Bridge connects the city to Sakaide in Kagawa Prefecture across the Inland Sea.
Kenzo Tange, winner of the 1987 Pritzker Prize for architecture, designed the former Kurashiki City Hall in 1960.
Kurashiki Ivy Square , Okayama | Japan Travel Guide
Kurashiki Ivy Square ( 倉敷アイビースクエア )
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The former Kurashiki Spinning Mill that had been constructed in 1889 has been made into a popular spot for Kurashiki where people can enjoy dining and shopping. In addition to a hotel, restaurants and stores, there are also many facilities including a museum and a workshop to create pottery.
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Kurashiki Denim Street
Kurashiki Bikan Historical Quarter
Ohara Museum of Art
Okayama Castle
Okayama Koraku-en
Art House Project
Naoshima
Naoshima Sento – I ♥ Yu
Chichu Art Museum
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Best Tourist Attractions you MUST SEE in Okayama, Japan | 2019
Okayama (岡山市, Okayama-shi, Japanese: [okaꜜjama]) is the capital city of Okayama Prefecture in the Chūgoku region of Japan.
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The rating information was taken from Google Maps and the list was last updated on 7th May, 2019:
1: Kurashiki Bikan Historical Quarter
2: Aeon Mall Okayama
3: Okayama Korakuen
4: Okayama Castle
5: Hiruzen Kogen Center & Joyful Park
6: Ujo Park
7: Tenmaya Okayama Shop Eyeglasses
8: Ohara Museum of Art
9: Kibitsu Shrine
10: Bitchu Matsuyama Castle
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Marugame Castle, Kagawa | Japan Travel Guide
Marugame Castle ( 丸亀城 )
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A famous castle which has Japan’s tallest stone walls, the smallest keep and the deepest well. With a 400-year-old history, it is a symbol of Marugame City.
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Kotohira-gu Shrine
Konpira Grand Theater (Kanamaru-za)
Ritsurin Park
Benesse House Museum
Art House Project
Naoshima
Naoshima Sento – I ♥ Yu
Chichu Art Museum
ANDO MUSEUM
Kurashiki Denim Street
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Spot1:Kurashiki Bikan Historical Quarter
The Kurashiki Bikan Historical Quarter in Kurashiki city once prospered as the political and commercial center. Streets from the Edo period with a mixture of Japanese and western styles have been preserved to date.
We recommend activities such as sailing down the Kurashiki River, roaming around wearing a kimono, and visiting Ohara Museum of Art and appreciating the handicrafts. Kurashiki is also the birthplace of Japan's denim, which is why many visitors come here seeking high-quality denim.
Spot2:Okayama Castle
Okayama Castle is located next to Asahi River and is known for its jet-black color. It borders Okayama Korakuen and you can see the streets of Okayama from the top of the castle.
You can try Bizen-yaki pottery at the castle. You can also take pictures by trying on traditional costumes of Japanese feudal lord or princess.
Spot3:Okayama Korakuen
Okayama Korakuen is known as one of the three most famous Japanese gardens. The garden consists of tea plantation, Tsuruya birdhouse, where you can see Japanese cranes, beautiful ponds and a teahouse, as well as flowers and other plants that you can enjoy viewing throughout all seasons. Yuishinzan is a famous spot for taking photographs where you can view all the ponds. Variety of events are held throughout the year such as tea harvesting, rice plantation so you will be able to experience Japanese traditions whenever you visit.
Food:Fruit Parfait
Okayama is one of the leading fruit-producing prefectures in Japan. There are many shops that offer delicious parfaits made of local fruits.
Besides the delicious taste, a parfait served with fresh fruits looks great as an Instagram picture.
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Craftsmanship Okayama/ Okayama University
Okayama University was first founded in the Chūgoku and Shikoku regions. There are two campuses within the city, and there are also facilities in the areas of Higashiyama, Hirai, Kurashiki, and Misasa. In Okayama Prefecture,which is blessed with the fortune of having a warm climate and views of the mountains and ocean, and basks in traditional Japanese culture, you can enjoy a student lifestyle overflowing with creativity.
We hope you enjoy this short video, which we've designed for international students interested in studying in Japan. It introduces many traditional crafts from Okayama such as The Bizen-Ware pottery , Bicchu-washi (traditional Japanese paper), Kurashiki-glass, and Japanese swords. If you attend Okayama University as an exchange student, you can experience firsthand the spirit of Okayama craftsmanship.
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