Kurashiki

Kurashiki is one of Japan's great old merchant towns, with around half a million citizens today. Sitting along a scenic canal at the foot of Mt. Tsurugata, Kurashiki's white-walled storehouses are beautifully preserved and open for exploration.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Ohara Museum of Art and Kurashiki Station.

Museum
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The in Kurashiki was the first collection of Western art to be permanently exhibited in Japan. The museum opened in 1930 and originally consisted almost entirely of French paintings and sculptures of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Railway station
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is a passenger railway station located in the city of Kurashiki, , . It is operated by West Japan Railway Company.

Manor estate
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is a manor estate.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hayashima.

Town
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is a town located in , , . As of 1 February 2024, the town had an estimated population of 12,772 in 5261 households and a population density of 1700 persons per km2.

Kurashiki

Latitude
34.5851° or 34° 35′ 6″ north
Longitude
133.772° or 133° 46′ 19″ east
Population
477,000
Elevation
4 metres (13 feet)
Open location code
8Q6MHQPC+2Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 703049817
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1858311
Wiki­data ID
Q467487
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Kurashiki” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كوراشيكي، أوكاياما”
  • Arabic: “كوراشيكي”
  • Armenian: “Կուրասիկի”
  • Asturian: “Kurashiki”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kuraşiki”
  • Basque: “Kurashiki”
  • Belarusian: “Курасікі”
  • Bengali: “কুরাশিকি”
  • Bulgarian: “Курашики”
  • Catalan: “Kurashiki”
  • Cebuano: “Kurashiki”
  • Chechen: “Курасики”
  • Chinese: “Kurasiki-chhī”
  • Chinese: “仓敷市”
  • Chinese: “倉敷”
  • Chinese: “倉敷市”
  • Czech: “Kurašiki”
  • Danish: “Kurashiki”
  • Dutch: “Kurashiki”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كوراشيكى”
  • Esperanto: “Kuraŝiki”
  • Finnish: “Kurashiki”
  • French: “Kurashiki-shi”
  • French: “Kurashiki”
  • Galician: “Kurashiki”
  • Georgian: “კურასიკი”
  • German: “Kurashiki”
  • Greek: “Κουρασίκι”
  • Gujarati: “કુરાશિકી”
  • Hebrew: “קורשיקי”
  • Hindi: “कुराशिकी”
  • Hungarian: “Kurashiki”
  • Hungarian: “Kurasiki”
  • Indonesian: “Kurashiki, Okayama”
  • Indonesian: “Kurashiki”
  • Irish: “Kurashiki”
  • Italian: “Kurashiki”
  • Japanese: “Kurashiki-shi”
  • Japanese: “くらしきし”
  • Japanese: “倉敷”
  • Japanese: “倉敷市”
  • Kannada: “ಕುರಶಿಕಿ”
  • Korean: “구라시키 시”
  • Korean: “구라시키시”
  • Latvian: “Kuaršiki”
  • Literary Chinese: “倉敷市”
  • Lithuanian: “Kurašikis”
  • Malagasy: “Kurashiki”
  • Malay: “Kurashiki”
  • Marathi: “कुराशिकी”
  • Mazanderani: “کوراشیکی، اوکایاما”
  • Mazanderani: “کوراشیکی”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kurasiki-chhī”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kurashiki”
  • Norwegian: “Kurashiki”
  • Persian: “کوراشیکی، اوکایاما”
  • Persian: “کوراشیکی”
  • Polish: “Kurashiki”
  • Portuguese: “Kurashiki”
  • Romanian: “Kurashiki”
  • Russian: “Курасики”
  • Russian: “Курашики”
  • Serbian: “Kurašiki”
  • Serbian: “Курасики”
  • Serbian: “Курашики”
  • Serbian: “倉敷市”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kurashiki”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kurasiki”
  • Sinhala: “කුරශිකි”
  • Slovenian: “Kurašiki”
  • Spanish: “Kurashiki Okayama”
  • Spanish: “Kurashiki”
  • Swedish: “Kurashiki”
  • Tagalog: “Kurashiki”
  • Tagalog: “Kurasyiki”
  • Tajik: “Kuraşiki”
  • Tajik: “Курашики”
  • Tamil: “குரைஷிகி”
  • Tatar: “Курасики”
  • Tatar: “Курачики”
  • Telugu: “కురాషికి”
  • Thai: “คุระชิกิ”
  • Thai: “คูราชิกิ”
  • Turkish: “Kurashiki”
  • Ukrainian: “Курасікі”
  • Ukrainian: “Курашікі”
  • Urdu: “کوراشیکی، اوکایاما”
  • Urdu: “کوراشیکی”
  • Uzbek: “Koʻrasiki”
  • Venetian: “Kurashiki”
  • Vietnamese: “Kurashiki”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kurashiki, Okayama”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kurashiki”
  • Yue Chinese: “倉敷”

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