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Kurashiki is a canal-side town in Okayama Prefecture, with white-walled warehouses, willows, an art museum and the jeans workshops of Kojima.

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In the Bikan Historical Quarter of Kurashiki, willows hang over a narrow canal lined by former rice warehouses with white plaster walls and black tiles, now shops, cafés and galleries. The town grew rich on rice and cotton in the Edo period, and the Ohara Museum of Art, opened in 1930 as Japan's first museum of Western art, holds works by El Greco, Monet and Gauguin.

Ivy Square, a red-brick former cotton mill, now holds an inn and small museums, and Achi Shrine stands on a hill above the town. Kojima, a district of the city, is Japan's denim capital, with a street of jeans shops and workshops. Washuzan Hill looks over the islands of the Seto Inland Sea, the Great Seto Bridge crosses to Shikoku, and Okayama's Korakuen garden and the art island of Naoshima are within easy reach.

Okayama barazushi, vinegared rice topped with seafood and vegetables, and kibi dango, soft millet dumplings tied to the legend of Momotaro, the peach boy, are the local foods, along with white peaches and Muscat grapes grown in the prefecture. The weather is dry and sunny enough for Okayama to be called the Land of Sunshine.

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