Korakuen and the Kurashiki Bikan district: walking Okayama’s great garden and white-walled warehouses
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About Okayama
Okayama is on the Seto Inland Sea side of Chugoku with Okayama City as its capital, home to Korakuen — one of Japan’s three great gardens.
Main walking areas in Okayama
Here are some of the prefecture’s most popular places to walk, where public smoking spots and facilities with smoking rooms tend to be available nearby.
- Okayama City (Korakuen, Okayama Castle, Omotecho shopping street)
- Kurashiki (Bikan historical quarter)
- Bitchu (Bitchu Matsuyama Castle)
Okayama trivia
The Kurashiki Bikan district preserves Edo-era white-walled storehouses; canal boat rides and townscape walks are the main attractions.
Tips for finding smoking areas in Okayama
- Use designated smoking spots in areas with no-smoking-on-the-street ordinances
- Stations, large commercial complexes and tourist information centres are good starting points
- Heated-tobacco-only rooms are growing — switch the tobacco-type filter to match your device
- Use a portable ashtray or the ashtray in the smoking area — good etiquette helps keep these spots open for everyone
Find efficiently with Mottosuitai
Allow location access on the Mottosuitai map to see smoking areas within 2 km of you. To browse by region, visit /search/?prefecture=okayama for the Okayama list.