Kurashiki

Few cities in Okayama Prefecture have a history as closely tied to the Edo-period rice trade as Kurashiki. Governed directly by the Tokugawa shogunate, the town grew around storehouses that received and shipped rice; its name itself means “storehouse village.” The Kurashiki River runs through the Bikan Historical Quarter, where white-walled kura warehouses, willow-lined banks and former merchants’ buildings preserve the commercial townscape. The Ohara Museum of Art, founded in 1930, was Japan’s first museum devoted to Western art and remains a key stop in the district. Browse other webcams across Okayama Prefecture to place this setting in a wider geographic context.

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