Ohara Museum of Fine Art decorated

The museum decorated with masking tapes. Kurashiki is where masking tapes began to be made first.

Kurashiki before dawn

The Kurashiki preserved area, still quiet but soon lively with visitors.

Kurashiki snaps

Many attractive stores with proud owners stand in kurashiki. This store sells masking tapes made in kurashiki and still produced there and its vicinities. It also holds the workshop of making your own iron chair.

And kurashiki snaps today. 

Backstreet strolling in Kurashiki

Kurashiki has one tiny but immaculately preserved section of its old rice-merchant quarter, which prospered in the Edo period. There are about 300 old houses and granaries. The oldest is about 300 years old.

Old Kurashiki today consists of dozens of characteristic whitewashed, black-tiled kura, or rice granaries, centered around a willow-lined transport canal. Many have been converted into museums, shops, teahouses, and inns, injecting contemporary vitality into these relics of traditional Japan. 

There are backstreets and allies that you shouldn't miss. 

The quarters have a right size to take a stroll and sit down for coffee or tea.

 Denim clothing store