Region: Kurashiki City

Held through Monday, September 30 Kurashiki Afternoon Tea × MITSUI OUTLET PARK Kurashiki Special Event Get special offers and enjoy shopping after afternoon tea

Candle-Making Experience at TAKAHASHIGAWA TRAVEL: Create your very own one-of-a-kind Momotaro or ogre candle.

Candle-Making Experience at TAKAHASHIGAWA TRAVELMake your own one-of-a-kind Momotaro or ogre candle

ASTORO Cafe A place where you can talk things over casually. Kurashiki Seiryo High School student Ryota Kunimoto created a place for exchange among people under 30

Participants applauding

The 31st Chugoku Region Joint Sign Language Training Workshop (held July 20–21, 2024) Two days of exchange among sign language learners from across the Chugoku Region

Race dates from August 1 to 22 National Ice Cream Festival 2024 at Boat Race Kojima Enjoy summer with 100 varieties of local ice cream from across Japan

Mr. Sekiya reading The 11 Cats

The Complete Noboru Baba Exhibition: He Drew, Created, and Enjoyed—Nyago! Commemorative Lecture (held July 27, 2024)Noboru Baba, who continued to pursue genuine humor, and his editor, Yuko Sekiya

Inside the seven-colored dome

“Kurashiki Goldfish Museum: The Story of Dragons and Goldfish,” woven from Kurashiki’s art and traditions On now through Monday, September 16, 2024! An otherworldly aquarium where goldfish and dragons dance

A sweets café and direct-from-the-farm market featuring an abundance of local fruit at Kurashiki Fruit Village, Tamashima Yashima (Tomita)

Kurashiki Fruit Village A sweets cafe and farm-direct market in Yashima, Tamashima (Tomita), featuring an abundance of local fruit

Staff member holding a flyer

Held 7/26 (Fri)–9/1 (Sun) The Complete Noboru Baba Exhibition: Drew, Created, and Had Fun, Nyago! Enjoy the summer art museum together, children and adults alike

The 51st Kurashiki Tenryo Summer Festival

51st Kurashiki Tenryo Summer Festival (held on July 20, 2024) A day of fun at Kurashiki’s major summer event, filled with smiles and laughter

Mr. Ishibashi (left) and Mr. Sakamoto (right) holding promotional flyers

Held on 8/4 (Sun) Kurashiki City Sign Language Circle Liaison Council 40th Anniversary Lecture Experience the sign language of deaf people featured on NHK E-Tele’s “Minna no Shuwa”

Participants chatting as they lay out karuta cards

Sign Language Study Session (held June 22, 2024) Planned by young sign language users! Signers and sign language learners honed their signing skills while exchanging with one another