The ivy on the red bricks regulated the temperature when cotton was spun here (1889).
The Kurashiki Bōseki textile mill, founded in 1889 during the Meiji modernisation: the ivy covering the red-brick walls was planted at the time to regulate the temperature inside the factory. Converted into a tourist complex in 1973 by the architect Uratsu Shintarō, it now houses a hotel, the Kurabō Kinenkan (which tells the history of the textile industry), pottery workshops, restaurants and shops around a courtyard with ginkgo trees.
Recognised as heritage of industrial modernisation in 2007; it hosted G7 ministerial meetings in 2016 and in 2023. A few steps from the Bikan district, it shares Kurashiki's mercantile and industrial origins with that area.
ℹ️ Courtyard and shops free to visit; the museum and the hotel have their own opening hours.
🚉 Kurashikishi · 14 min walk
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