Okayama

Tamachi, Yanagimachi and Kurashiki

Appended Table 3 of the prefectural ordinance sets out where licensed venues, including hostess clubs (kyabakura) where staff entertain guests, may keep serving past midnight until 1 a.m. In Okayama City's Kita-ku the list is Omotecho 1–3, Saiwaicho, Tamachi 1–2, Chuo-cho, Togimachi, Nakasange 1–2, Nishikimachi, Heiwacho, Honmachi and Yanagimachi 1–2.

In Kurashiki the same table lists Achi 1–3 and Kawanishimachi, and in Mizushima the Higashi- and Nishi-Tokiwacho and Higashi- and Nishi-Sakaemachi blocks, each with some lots excluded. Kurashiki Station is about 15 minutes from Okayama on the JR Sanyo Line.

Access

From Tokyo Station the Nozomi reaches Okayama in about 3 hours 19 minutes; from Nagoya it is about 1 hour 34, from Kyoto about an hour and from Shin-Osaka about 44 minutes. Haneda–Okayama Momotaro Airport flights are about 1 hour 10 minutes, and the airport bus to Okayama Station West Exit about 30. From Okayama the Marine Liner rapid crosses the Seto-Ohashi Bridge to Takamatsu in Kagawa.

NIGHT LIFE JAPAN areas in Okayama

NIGHT LIFE JAPAN divides the prefecture in two. Under Okayama City come three areas (East Ward; Central Town, Rice Paddy Town, Willow Town; Around Okayama Station), and under Kurashiki two (Mizushima and Kurashiki Station Area), each with its own venue list.