Kurashiki tourist information
Kurashiki is located in the western part of the Okayama Plain in the central Chugoku region (the southwest end of Japan's main island). It developed as a commercial center, and was named Kurashiki because it had many kura-yashiki (residences with storehouses). The city still preserves many of those kura, or storehouses.
The south of JR Kurashiki Station is called Bikan-chiku, an area that has eighty-five storehouses built between the 18th and 19th centuries and which preserve traces of those old days. It is designated as an "aesthetic area" as well as a national important preservation district for groups of historic buildings. All-night lights that were set up at the end of the 18th century and old post boxes that have been used since the latter half of the 19th century blend in with the town's scenery. Ivy Square, a cultural complex of an impressive brick building covered in ivy, stands on the former grounds of a cotton mill that was built in the 19th century. In the compound is the Ohara Museum of Art with its main building built in a Greek-temple style, and collections of representative Western art after the 17th century are exhibited.
A tourist spot as popular as the aesthetic area is Kurashiki Tivoli Park. It was modeled after the world's oldest theme park in Denmark, the Tivoli Park. It consists of Old Copenhagen that resembles the old streets of Denmark, the Scandinavian summer house-like Colony Garden, and Back Alley that resembles the back alleys of England.
by Japan National Tourist Organization
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