Hiroshima Airport 1 hr 55
Hayashibara Museum of Art (9 min)
Art museum with a vast collection of traditional weaponry, Noh costumes & Japanese lacquer pieces. Okayama Korakuen (17 min)
Restored 18th-century gardens once used by Edo period rulers, with ponds, temples & resident cranes. Okayama Castle (9 min)
Replica of a 16th-century castle featuring historical exhibits & artifacts & expansive gardens. Ikeda Zoo (10 min)
Long-running zoo, founded in 1953, housing exotic animals, some of which can be fed by visitors. Okayama Prefectural Museum (18 min) Okayama Orient Museum (16 min)
Major art museum with a collection of thousands of pieces of historical art from the Middle East. Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art (13 min) Ohara Museum of Art (45 min)
Country's oldest private museum, opened in 1930, with French sculptures & modern Japanese paintings. Kurashiki Bikan Historical Quarter (44 min)
Historic area with classic architecture situated along a canal, with shops, eateries & galleries. Takamatsu Castle (30 min) Kibitsuhiko Shrine (19 min)
Shinto structure with an inner shrine rebuilt in 1697, with the remainder reconstructed in 1936. Saijo Inari (29 min)
One of the three most important Inari shrines in the country, this temple features a huge torii. Okayama City Handayama Botanical Gardens (8 min) Yumeji Art Museum (16 min)
Museum featuring works by Takehisa Yumeji, plus a reconstruction of the artist's studio. Kibitsu Shrine (22 min)
Big Shinto shrine, known as a National Treasure & a pristine example of kibitsu-zukuri architecture. | 
