14 Sights in Kurashiki, Japan (with Map and Images)

Washuzan Highland is an amusement park located in Shimotsui Fuki, Kurashiki City, Okayama Prefecture. The previous catch phrase was "Amusement park with a view of the Seto Bridge". Currently, it is "Brazilian Park Washuzan Highland".

Wikipedia: 鷲羽山ハイランド (JA), Website

Kohachimangu is a shrine (Hachimangu) located in Kojima, Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, Japan. It is the general god of the lower town, upper town, Tanoguchi, and Karakoto in the former Kotoura district town, and the former company status is a prefectural shrine.

Wikipedia: 鴻八幡宮 (JA)

The Ohara Museum of Art in Kurashiki was the first collection of Western art to be permanently exhibited in Japan. The museum opened in 1930 and originally consisted almost entirely of French paintings and sculptures of the 19th and 20th centuries. The collection has now expanded to include paintings of the Italian Renaissance and of the Dutch and Flemish 17th century. Well-known American and Italian artists of the 20th century are also included in the collection.

Wikipedia: Ohara Museum of Art (EN), Website

Kumano Shrine is a Kumano Shrine located in the Gouchi district of Kurashiki City, Okayama Prefecture, Japan. It is called "Japan No. 1 Kumano Twelve Shrines". The deities of the festival are the god of Iginami, the god of Ikinaki, the god of Ieto Miko, and the god of Hayatama. The shrine hall has a similar format to the Kumano Hongu Taisha Shrine, with the 3rd, 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, and 6th halls from left to right.

Wikipedia: 熊野神社 (倉敷市林) (JA), Website

Kurashiki Folk Crafts Museum is a registered museum in Okayama Prefecture that preserves and exhibits folk crafts from around the world related to daily life in Kurashiki City, Okayama Prefecture. It is operated by the Kurashiki Folk Art Museum.

Wikipedia: 倉敷民藝館 (JA)

Goryūsō Ryūin is a Shugendō temple located in Hayashi, Kurashiki City, Okayama Prefecture. The honzon is the eleven-sided Kannon. It is the main temple of "Shugendo", which is a sect of the Tendai Shugen system. The president is Jun Miyake, professor emeritus at Keio University.

Wikipedia: 五流尊瀧院 (JA)

The Kurashiki City Mabi Furusato History Museum is a museum located in Mabi-cho, Kurashiki City, Okayama Prefecture. It is located in Oike Furusato Park. Behind the building (northwest) is the Okada Pond.

Wikipedia: 倉敷市真備ふるさと歴史館 (JA)

Kibiji Temple is a temple of the Shingon sect of the Omuro sect located in Mabi-cho, Kurashiki City, Okayama Prefecture, Japan. The name of the mountain is Kagamibayashi Mountain. The honzon is said to be Gyokisaku in Yakushi Nyorai, and is a secret Buddha.

Wikipedia: 吉備寺 (JA)

Kurashiki City Museum of Natural History is a museum located in Kurashiki City, Okayama Prefecture, Japan. It is located side by side with the Kurashiki City Library and the Kurashiki City Museum of Art in the area to the west across Kurashiki Chuo Street from the Kurashiki Bikan district. It opened on November 3, 1983. It has three floors, four permanent exhibition rooms and one special exhibition room, and exhibits such as flora and fauna of Okayama Prefecture and insects, fossils, and meteorites from around the world. For the purpose of managing and exhibiting materials related to natural history and improving cultural culture, research may be conducted at the request of local governments.

Wikipedia: 倉敷市立自然史博物館 (JA)

Amaki Church is a church of the United Church of Christ in Japan located in Amaki, Fujito Town, Kurashiki City, Okayama Prefecture. The hall is designated as an important cultural property of Okayama Prefecture.

Wikipedia: 天城教会 (JA)

Fujido Temple is a temple of the Shingon sect of Mount Koya located in Fujido, Kurashiki City, Okayama Prefecture. The mountain name is Fudaraku Mountain. The main deity is the Thousand-Armed Kannon. It is known as "Fujido's Great Master" and "the temple for the memorial of the Genpei War."

Wikipedia: 藤戸寺 (JA)

Kurashiki Memorial Museum is a corporate museum of Kurashiki Textiles located in Kurashiki Ivy Square in Kurashiki City, Okayama Prefecture. It was built in 1888 (Meiji 21), the year of Kurashiki Spinning's founding, as a warehouse for storing raw cotton. National Registration and Buildings.

Wikipedia: 倉紡記念館 (JA)

Yata Ōtsuka Kofun (箭田大塚古墳) is a Kofun period burial mound located in the Mabi-chō neighborhood of the city of Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, in the San'yō region of Japan. The tumulus was designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 1929, with the area under protection expanded in 1992.

Wikipedia: Yata Ōtsuka Kofun (EN), Url

Mount Washu or Washū-zan is a 133 meter hill in Shimotsui, Kurashiki, Japan, but famous traditionally for viewing the Seto Inland Sea dotted with various small islands, and now for commanding the majestic view of the Great Seto Bridge, one of the three bridges connecting Shikoku Island with the main Honshu Island.

Wikipedia: Mount Washu (EN)