Okayama

Okayama is the capital city of Okayama Prefecture in the Chugoku region of Japan. The city was founded on June 1, 1889. As of February 2017, the city has an expected populace of 720,841 and a populace thickness of 910 people for each km². The aggregate region is 789.88 square kilometers 304.97 square miles. The city is the site of Koraku-en, known as one of the best three conventional gardens in Japan, and Okayama Castle, which is positioned among the best 100 Japanese mansions. The city is popular as the setting of the Japanese tale "Momotaro".

Before the Muromachi time frame, Okayama was one corner of a ranch locale and incorporated a little chateau worked by the Kanemitsu. In the Sengoku time frame, Ukita Naoie assaulted Okayama and assaulted the palace for the transportation assets and broad farmland in the district. Naoie rebuilt the stronghold, fabricated the old Sanyo street to the focal piece of the mansion town, and brought in experts both from inside and outside of Bizen Province. Okayama turned into the political and temperate capital of Bizen Province. In 1600, Ukita Hideie, who was the child of Naoie and the master of Okayama, lost at the Battle of Sekigahara.