Okayama has the Go-raku-en, or literally After-Joy-Garden, or Back-Joy-Garden. It is one of 3 best lanscaped garden in Japan.
It got its name from a Chinese saying that a good court official should worry before the people worry, and to enjoy after the people get to enjoy.
Of course, depending on your sexual inclination, you are free to inteprete it some other way.
Anyway, the last time I was in Okayama as jobless recent graduate, I gave the garden a miss since it was charging an entrance fee.
This time as a jobless recent victim of the Wall Street fiasco, I decided to get in.
Okayama museum (next to the train station) was at that time holding a railway exhibition.
It was one on a small scale, but at least there wasa video about the designer of the first Shinkasen looping on one of the TV.
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