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Traditional boat carrying visitors along the historic canal of Kurashiki, Japan, lined with white-walled storehouses and willow trees at dusk.
Forest landscape in Hasami, Japan, with a large leaning tree trunk surrounded by dense woodland and soft natural light filtering through the trees.

Kurashiki

In Kurashiki, craftspeople and cultural stewards keep tradition alive, revealing how preservation and creativity can shape everyday life.

Hasami

Born from its own landscape, this ceramic town runs as one — stone, water and many hands shaping four hundred years of craft.