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Tottori
Japan's largest sand dunes, a vast desert-like expanse rolling down to the Sea of Japan and the natural symbol of Tottori.
The world's first museum dedicated to sand sculpture, where international artists build a spectacular new themed exhibition of giant sand art every year.
The highest mountain in western Japan's Chugoku region, a sacred volcanic peak famous for hiking, autumn colour and a beech forest wilderness.
A whimsical shopping street in Sakaiminato lined with around 180 bronze statues of yokai monsters from Mizuki Shigeru's beloved manga.
A museum devoted to manga master Mizuki Shigeru, celebrating his yokai artwork, his extraordinary life and the folklore he helped preserve.
A National Treasure hall wedged impossibly into a sheer cliff face high on a sacred mountain, reached by one of Japan's most challenging temple climbs.
The shrine of the legendary White Rabbit of Inaba, a beloved matchmaking site on the Tottori coast tied to one of Japan's oldest myths.
A dramatic stretch of white cliffs, sea caves and crystal-clear coves on the Sea of Japan, part of the San'in Kaigan Geopark.
The stone ramparts of Tottori's feudal castle on Kyusho-zan hill, a top local cherry-blossom spot.
An elegant 1907 French Renaissance mansion at the foot of Tottori Castle, once lit by the region's first electric lights.
A nationally designated Edo-period pond garden at a Tottori temple, viewed with a bowl of matcha.
A retro radon hot-spring town in central Tottori, with a famous open-air riverside bath.
Western Japan's largest flower park, framed by Mount Daisen, with year-round blooms and winter light shows.
A seaside hot-spring resort near Yonago where saline springs meet a sandy beach and Mount Daisen views.
An ancient forest shrine on Mount Daisen, reached by Japan's longest natural-stone approach path.
A 1,300-year-old mountain temple on Mount Daisen, once a great center of Buddhist power and warrior monks.
Hilltop castle ruins above Yonago with a free 360-degree panorama of Mount Daisen, sea and lake.
Tottori's prefectural museum of nature, history and folk culture, beside the castle ruins.
A vast early-1900s merchant mansion in the Chizu post town, with 40 rooms and a superb garden.
Tottori's city museum, nicknamed Yamabiko-kan, tells the story of the castle town and the Ikeda daimyo through documents, armour and reconstructed streets.
A jewel of the Japanese folk-craft movement, showing everyday ceramics, textiles and woodwork chosen for their unshowy beauty.
A private museum built around one physician's vast collection of samurai armour, swords, ceramics and Asian art.
A museum in the ancient Inaba capital celebrating poet-governor Otomo no Yakamochi and the Manyoshu anthology.
The world's only museum devoted entirely to the pear, celebrating Tottori's famous Nijisseiki variety.
