Kurashiki

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Unlike my previous stop, Kurashiki wears its tourist heart on its sleeve. Quaintness is just oozing from the mortar and tile of the old granaries (kura) that line the “historical district”. It’s nice, don’t get me wrong, but there’s just something a bit inauthentic about it, a bit disingenuous. Would these buildings still be around had someone not realized the tourist potential of them? On the other side of the station, seemingly far away, there’s a Tivoli amusement park modeled on the famed Tivoli in Copenhagen. But I can’t vouch for it’s fidelity to the original. I only had time to fit in one theme park today.