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Kurashiki, which flourished as an agglomeration site for supplies from the time of the Edo Tenryō. Willow-lined trees and white-walled mansions along the river. The Edo-style, which is lined with old machiya, and the Ohara Museum of Art, a collection of global Western paintings. You can enjoy the charm of Kurashiki, which is never exhausted even if you visit it, in a rickshaw.

The ship sailed from the shore landing area on the south side of Nakabashi and took about 20 minutes between Takasago Bridge and Imabashi. While listening to the boatman's explanation, it is inevitable that the time to look at the white wall of the town from the river, where the remnants of the Edo period remain, will be full of travel and become a special memory.

Experience workshop in Kurashiki Ivy Square. You can easily enjoy hand-playing of pottery and painting of porcelain. You can enjoy experiences such as hand-billed (reservation required), bimedown (reservation required), painting, and scratching, as well as an electric-powered locuro experience for a limited time.

Western-style architecture built in 1917 as the Kurashiki Town Hall, which now provides tourist guides and introductions to tourist facilities as a tourist information center, and also features vending machines, coin lockers, and toilets as a free rest area.

The raw cotton warehouse built at the time of the Krabou foundation was renewed as a memorial hall on the 80th anniversary of its founding in 1969. In the atmosphere of cultural monuments, the history of the Japanese textile industry is used to introduce the history of the kurabou through photographs, models, documents and paintings. It is also listed in the "Japanese Heritage (Kurashiki Story, which begins with a single cotton)" and "Modernized Industrial Heritage", "Registered Tangible Cultural Property".

The shop, which uses rice shops, is lined with a variety of Kurashiki folk art items ranging from grass to glass. The gallery hosts exhibitions of works by local writers and others.

Japan's first private art museum with a focus on Western art, which was opened in 1930 by the second president of Kurashiki spinning, Sounsaburo Ohara. The collection contains about 3000 works, mainly Western masterpieces, which were commissioned by the painter Torajirō Kojima and collected, and exhibits about 1000 pieces at all times. All of them are world-class collections, including 17th-century El Greco, 19th-century impressionist masterpieces, and contemporary art. At present, you can see a wide variety of collections, not only Western art, but also Japanese Western paintings, works of writers currently active, works of writers involved in the folk movement, and Egyptian and Asian antiquities. It consists of a main building, a branch hall, a craft and a toyo hall, and Kojima Torajirō Memorial Hall, with a tour duration of two hours.

A museum where you can reunite with Love, which displays the work of Yumiko Igarashi, a master of the girl manga world depicting "Candy Candy." in addition to displaying original drawings and manuscripts of manga, you can enjoy the long-awaited princess feeling with the ''princess experience (1500 yen for one, separate entrance fee, no reservation required)'' where you can wear a dress like Yumiko Igarashi. The main character of "Kurashiki Tale", which is set in the Kurashiki Bijin district and walks around the Bikan district in the "Ya Kasuri Hakama Experience", where the main character of "Kurashiki Tale" wears a costume of Chiman-chan.

There is a corner of the cave exploration "Onigashima", where the demon pops out of Iwagin, where you can try to solve Momotaro's mystery while having fun. Invaluable historical materials such as "Tsubameishi Magazine" written by Takizawa Makoto and Ukiyo-e of Momotaro are also a must.

Around 30,000 local toys made nationwide, such as kites and karakuri dolls, are displayed by prefecture and theme in the hall, which uses a rice brewery. A gallery, a cafe, and a shop are provided for special exhibitions. It takes 30 minutes.