JAPAN PHOTOS by Philbert Ono

Mt. Daisen is the tallest mountain in the San'in Region and part of the Daisen-Oki National Park.

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Beautiful museum in the middle of nowhere, dedicated to the late Ueda Shoji, one of Japan's most famous fine-art photographers. Official site here.

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People should know that besides the sand dunes, Tottori Prefecture also has a dramatically beautiful coastline called Uradome Kaigan. It is also part of the San-in Coast National Park. 山陰海岸国立公園

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Kurayoshi's Shirakabe White-Wall Storehouses or warehouses are in a nationally-designated Important Traditional Townscape Preservation District (重要伝統的建造物群保存地区) named Utsubuki-Tamagawa (打吹玉川). This used to be a castle town until 1615. It was a commercial district up to the 1920s. About 100 traditional buildings with white walls (kura storehouses) and red roof tiles remain. The Tottori earthquake in Oct. 2016 damaged a few white walls. A short bus ride from JR Kurayoshi Station.

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Photos of Kurayoshi Station.

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Tottori Prefecture's second most popular hot spring. 25-min. bus ride from JR Kurayoshi Station. The river has a nice outdoor bath.

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The Sands of Tottori. Every prefecture has something nationally (and sometimes internationally) famous. In the case of Tottori, it's definitely the sand dunes (sakyu in Japanese). It's on the beach facing the Sea of Japan. The dunes were formed by the ocean currents that deposited the sand on the coast for 100,000 years or so. A short bus ride from JR Tottori Station.

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Across the road from the Tottori sand dunes is The Sand Museum exhibiting incredible giant sand sculptures. The Sand Museum opened in 2012 and it's the world's first and only museum dedicated to sand sculptures. The Sand Museum holds a sand sculpture exhibition from April to early January every year featuring a different country or region outside Japan. During April 2017 to Jan. 2018, the theme was the U.S.A.

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Tottori is also Japan's least populated prefecture with only about 565,000. If you don't like crowds, visit Tottori. Photos taken near Tottori Station.

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Sights in central Yonago.

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Nice, long sandy beach toward Sakaiminato.

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Hawai Onsen hot spring is on the western shore of Lake Togo, a small brackish lake in Yurihama town in central Tottori Prefecture. The hot spring was built on reclaimed land over the lake where the natural hot spring water gushed out of the lake bottom. This land now has a number of inns where guests can enjoy the hot spring water. Since "Hawai" sounds the same as "Hawaii", it has associated itself with Hawaii by holding a hula festival in July. A 15-min. bus ride from JR Kurayoshi Station.

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