This museum was opened as a natural science museum centered on stuffed specimens of rare animals of the world. Stuffed animals are displayed in diorama style against landscape pictures, and bring the feeling of real animal lives in nature. There are approx. 850 specimens in this museum. In particular, the place where rare and hard-to-find animal specimens including the golden snub-nosed monkey, Indian Lion, clouded leopard, snowy owl, sloth, white bear are gathered will give you a tremendous impact.

Park of the remain of Tsuyama castle which was constructed by Tadamasa Mori, a younger brother of Ranmaru Mori who died during the incident at Honnoji Temple. The castle was abandoned in 1873, then whole compound including the Tenshukaku (donjon) was broken down and only stone walls were left. The stone walls of Honmaru (the central area surrounded by the inner moat of the castle), Ninomaru, and Sannomaru (the secondary and tertiary enclosures, respectively) combined reached the hight of 45 m. Because of its typical style of Japanese castle, it has been designated as a national historical site. In spring, 5,000 of cherry tree produce masses of flowers throughout this park, and this park has also been designated as “the 100 best cherry blossom-viewing spot in Japan.” Wisteria, azalea, autumnal colors of the leaves, and landscape of snow are also pleasing to visitors'eyes through all seasons.

This shrine is sacred to Emperor Godaigo and Takanori Kojima. It is also said that this is a ruins of Anzaisyo (villa) where Emperor Godaigo stopped over during his banishment to Oki due to the battle of Genko occurred in 1331. In this shrine, there is an anecdote that when Emperor Godaigo was depressed, Takanori Kojima crept into this shrine while escaping from security guards, and wrote character-crossed Chinese poem on the body of a cherry tree to solace him. This anecdote is famous and described in “Taiheiki” story (records of battles in the Muromachi era).

In the castle town Tsuyama, the old post station in the east of Tsuyama castle ruins is called Joto area, where Namako kabe (the walls covered with square tiles jointed with raised plaster) and old merchant houses consisting the barred lattice line along the old Izumo road. Rows of houses where old houses such as Sake, paper, and sickle merchants'houses line in 1.2 km range has been designated as a prefectural rows-of-houses preservation area. Among them, the birthplace of Genpo Mitsukuri, a clan doctor who was active in the end of the Edo era, also stands. This area is famous as location sites of the film “Otoko-wa-tsuraiyo, torajiro kurenai-no-hana” (It's tough to be a man, Torajiro and red flower), and “Aguri” which is a morning TV drama series of NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation).

If you get brochures this center published or listen to the introductions of sightseeing spots by the center's staff, you can fully enjoy the sightseeing in Tsuyama city. In addition, not only tourist information of Tsuyama city, but also the tourist and restaurant information of the north part of the prefecture including Okutsu, Yubara and Yunogo area is also available. Furthermore, the Internet service section has been made to search for the information including restaurant “Yoshino” where you can enjoy local foods, locations of the rental bicycle, and the tourist information. For buying gifts such as handmade folk crafts, local specialties, local sake, local specialties, and Japanese sweets, the local specialty section in this center is recommended.

This garden was constructed in 1657 by Osatsugu Mori, 2nd load of Tsuyama clan, modeled after the garden of Sendo-gosho (palace) in Kyoto. In this load's garden, four rocks are arranged in the long pond from north to south, resembling as if it looks like Chugoku mountain area by using its trees or rocks. Because of its modern Chisenkaiyu (circular pond) styles, this garden has been designated as a national scenic beauty. In Tsuyama clan, emissaries from other clans were welcomed here, not in the castle. Therefore, this garden was called “Gotaimensyo” (the place for seeing emissaries in person). The name “Shurakuen” was given when the shogunate was overthrown in the Meiji era, and opened publicly. The cherry blossoms in spring, azalea, autumnal colors of the leaves, and landscape of snow in winter are beautiful here in this garden.