Shrines, museums, parks, and the spots in between, with the access details worked out.
Japan's first museum devoted to the maneki neko, the beckoning cat, with about 800 figures from the Meiji era to the present and a painting workshop.
OkayamaSaijo Inari is a 1,200-year-old Buddhist temple and one of Japan's three great Inari sites, preserving a rare form of Shinto-Buddhist syncretic worship.
OkayamaBitchukoku Soja Shrine consolidated deities of 324 provincial shrines into a single site dedicated to the deity of nation-building and good fortune.
Soja · OkayamaOkayama shrine to Kibitsuhiko-no-Mikoto, a legendary prince said to have defeated an ogre and brought peace to the region, the root of the Momotaro story.
OkayamaSacred mountain shrine in Okayama with more than two thousand years of history, blending Shinto and Buddhist practices as a centre of pilgrimage.
Kurashiki · OkayamaOne of Japan's three most beautiful gardens, featuring a central pond with islands and bridges, tea house, and abundant cherry blossoms in spring.
OkayamaBuddhist temple built around a Senju Kannon statue created in 751 that miraculously survived fire and warfare over the centuries.
OkayamaMountain castle built in 1240 and rebuilt in 1331 on its current location, retaining its tenshu, Niju yagura, and section of defensive walls.
Takahashi · OkayamaA quarter of white-walled storehouses along a canal in Okayama, built on the rice trade and preserved since the 1960s.
Kurashiki · OkayamaThis private museum specializes in Japanese and Chinese pottery and ceramics from the Heian and Kamakura periods, featuring a beautiful Japanese garden.
OkayamaOkayama park themed as a German forest, with animal encounters, seasonal flower gardens, German food, go-karts, archery and craft workshops.
Akaiwa · OkayamaOkayama museum preserving regional heritage through 100,000 artifacts spanning archaeology, pottery and folk culture traditions.
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