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19 G7 Japan 2016: Messages from KurashikiVideo clip will be available at https://www.youtube.com/user/pmojapan　Kurashiki in Okayama Prefecture, site of the G7 Education Ministers’ Meeting, is one hour by Shinkansen high-speed rail from Osaka. Located on the Seto Inland Sea, it developed as a city of merchants, but it is now known as a city of culture and education—the site, for example, of the Ohara Museum of Art, famous as Japan’s first private museum of Western art. The Great Seto Bridge extends for over 13 kilometers (8 miles) to the south, connecting the city to the island of Shikoku on the other side of the sea. Kurashiki’s Bikan Historical Quarter preserves many Edo-period (1603–1868) merchants’ homes and earthen-walled warehouses and granaries. 　Cotton has been a major crop grown in the Kurashiki area since the seventeenth century, and the city is now world-famous as a producer of high-quality denim goods. Kurashiki is also known for its seafood from the Seto Inland Sea and for the white peaches and muscats that grow in its mild climate.　Recently, the city has been working to attract tourists from other countries with ongoing measures such as providing Wi-Fi hotspots.Kurashiki: A City That Preserves Its Traditions and Culture1. The Kurashiki Museum of Folkcraft, opened in 1948, was originally a rice granary. It is now the signature building of the city’s Bikan Historical Quarter. 2. Riverboats carrying cargo formerly plied the Kurashiki River, which runs through the Bikan Historical Quarter. Now boats carry tourists for rides along the river, preserving the area’s traditional ambience.12G7 Japan 2016 Ise-Shima Summit official websitehttp://www.japan.go.jp/g7/

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