Okayama 6hr Private Tour with Licensed Guide and Vehicle

Highlights

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Itinerary

1. Visit the striking black 'Crow Castle,' one of Okayama's iconic landmarks, with its handsome reconstructed keep and views over the Asahi River.

   1 h

2. Stroll through Korakuen, ranked among Japan's three great landscape gardens, with expansive lawns, ponds, tea houses and borrowed scenery of the castle.

   1 h

3. Visit Kibitsu Shrine, famed for its unique architecture and long roofed corridor, linked to the legend that inspired the tale of Momotaro.

   30 min

4. Tsukuriyama Ancient Burial Mound, located near Senzoku Bus Stop in Shinjoshimo Kita-ku, is a significant historical site featuring two burial mounds distinguishable by their names. The tomb on the Okayama side of the trail is particularly intriguing, being the 4th largest ancient tomb in Japan. Visitors can explore this huge keyhole-shaped tumulus and enjoy a pleasant walk around it to appreciate its grandeur.

   1 h

5. Jinyamachi is a town of Jinya where the Kinoshita family, whose founder is Toyotomi Hideyoshi's legal wife Nene's older brother, has 25,000 koku of land. The preservation district corresponds to Machinin-cho within Jinya-cho. A characteristic feature of Ashimori is that the latticework is well preserved. Beautiful lattices such as Senbon lattice and Kiriko lattice are installed, allowing you to enjoy the aesthetics of proportion created from daily life. It is a quiet and calm townscape, lined with private houses with wide frontage and flat terraces.

   30 min

6. One of Japan’s three top Inari temples, featuring an enormous torii 27.5 m tall! Saijo Inari, founded more than 1,200 years ago, is one of Japan’s three top Inari . A temple in reality, Saijo Inari includes an enormous torii (Grand Torii) and resembles a shrine while devoting itself to both gods and Buddha. Believed to grant wishes including for business prosperity and domestic safety, the temple is filled to capacity during the New Year holiday, making it to most popular temple in Okayama Prefecture. With the En no Massha shrine existing for the good graces of marriage and the adverse fortunes of divorce, visitors are encouraged to receive a heart-shaped matchmaking souvenir after worshipping and open the door to a wonderful relationship.

   30 min

7. Inujima Seirensho Art Museum is a museum that preserves and recreates the remains of a copper refinery that remains on Inujima Island. The museum was built based on the concept of 'using what exists to create what is to be'. It features environmentally friendly architecture by Hiroshi Sambuichi that uses natural energy sources such as an existing chimney, karami bricks, solar and geothermal heat; and works by Yukinori Yanagi inspired by Yukio Mishima, who warned Japan against modernization, created in response to the architecture. There is also an advanced water purification system that uses the power of plants. It can be said that this is a project, which through 'heritage, architecture, art, and the environment', is conscious of a recycling-based society.

   1 h

Cancellation

Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.

Know before you go

How it compares in Okayama

• Its from-price is 134% above the median of the 25 experiences we list in Okayama.
• It is longer than most of them.
• The operator lists free cancellation on it.

About Okayama

Okayama is a sunny city on Japan's Inland Sea with a black castle, one of the country's great gardens and the legend of Momotaro, the peach boy.

Okayama Castle, painted black and sometimes called the Crow Castle, stands beside the Asahi River, and across the water is Korakuen, a garden laid out around 1700 and ranked among Japan's three great landscape gardens, with lawns, ponds, tea houses and cranes. The two can be reached on foot across a footbridge.

Top-ranked sights in Okayama: Okayama Korakuen Garden.

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