Kasaoka

The most well-known attraction in the city, the Kabutogani Museum features exhibits about horseshoe crabs (kabutogani) the so-called "living fossils". The surrounding Dinosaur Park features life-size dinosaurs, such as a T-Rex, which once shared the earth with horseshoe crabs.

Ono Chikkyo was a modern nihonga artist born here in Kasaoka. His artwork focuses on ordinary scenes of nature, many of which depict indistinguishable places in northern Okayama.

A museum with artifacts, images, and information about the former Ikasa Railway, which served Kasaoka, Yakage, Ibara, and northern Fukuyama.

The Konoshima area has its own 88 Pilgrimage walking route for those who cannot complete the Shikoku Pilgrimage. This pilgrimage is 29 km long and can be completed in two days.

This is the city's firework festival, and it's quite large.

This festival celebrates the blooming of more than 1 million sunflowers around the Michi no Eki. Food stalls are set up, and there is a viewing platform from which you can see the entire field of sunflowers. If you prefer a closer view, you can alternatively walk in the fields.

Boats from the seven areas of Konoshima gather with loud chanting.