Mitsumasa Ikeda, clan lord performed the large rice field development and created a land between Kojima and Kurashiki. A new artificial cannel “Kurashiki River” was developed in the land. The merchant houses along the river have been plastered and have cut-lattices called “Kurashiki lattice”. Every August, the Flower Tanabata Festival decorated with bamboos and flowers is hold along Kurashiki River.

It is an urban-type park, which affiliated with the Tivoli Park in Denmark with a 150-years history. There are 50,000 trees and 900,000 stubs of 250 kinds in 12 hectares of the large site. Various flowers bloom in all seasons. Events including concerts, performances and parades are hold there. People of all generations can enjoy this park because attraction facilities, restaurants and shops are established. The park is illuminated at night.

One typical large trader’s house of the oldest important and traditional Japanese houses along the Kurashiki River faces the Hommachi Street which is one of old main streets in Kurashiki city. It is assumed that the period when the main house was built was from 1711 to 1716. Only Inoue House has the mud doors fixed in seven Kurashiki windows of the south external wall on the second floor.

Kurashiki Fine Sight Area, where the storehouses with white walls and tradesmen's houses plastered/roofed with tiles stand along both sides of Kurashiki River with row of willows. Kurashiki city has been governed directly by the Tokugawa and flourished as a center of trade, where many ships to deliver commodity dropped, and the commodity from Bicchu region was gathered and distributed in the Edo period.
Now Kurashiki River shows the moderate landscape. But many ships with commodity were crowded in this river in the Edo period. This area was designated as a section to preserve the important and traditional Japanese houses in 1970.

Magosaburo Ohara who was a businessman and active in the front lines based on Kurashiki, established this museum to the memory of Torajiro Kojima, painter in 1930. It is characterized by the appearance in Achaean Temple-style. It is the first western art museum in Japan, which is famous for showing the pictures after 17th centuries including "Annunciation" by EL GRECO, "Waterlilies" by MONET and some pieces by RENOIR. It consists of Pavilion to exhibit the modern Japanese pictures, Craft Hall, the Eastern Hall and Torajiro Kojima Memorial Hall.

Cultural area where the spinning factory in the Meiji period was reproduced. The ivy-covered walls preserve the air of the Meiji period. In this area, the hotel, restaurant, facilities for tour of inspection, craft center and shops are scattered. You should visit the “Ivy Academic Hall” including the display of modern western pictures and the Kibi region section, and “Orgel Musette Metasequoia” to collect various antique music boxes. You can enjoy making ceramics casually in the Atelier IVY with two courses, “Tebineri (Pottery making)” and “Drawing pictures”.