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Kurayoshi's Shirakabe White-Wall Warehouses are in a National 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.

Map of Shirakabe Warehouse district in Kurayoshi. The district is compact, easy to walk around.

Road where I got off the bus.

The main kura storehouses here. 赤瓦二号館

The main Shirakabe kura storehouses in Kurayoshi, Tottori. 赤瓦二号館

The main Shirakabe kura storehouse in Kurayoshi, Tottori. 赤瓦二号館

The main Shirakabe kura warehouse in Kurayoshi, Tottori. 赤瓦二号館

Mt. Utsubuki where there was a castle until 1615. 打吹山

Tamagawa River

Tamagawa River 玉川と研屋町の町並み

This street corner had a large monument for Yokozuna Kotozakura, a sumo wrestler from Kurayoshi.

Kotozakura was active in the 1960s-70s and later became a successful sumo stable master training wrestlers like Kotokaze and Kotonowaka.

Statue of Yokozuna Kotozakura, a sumo wrestler from Kurayoshi, Tottori. 横綱琴櫻

Statue of Yokozuna Kotozakura, a grand champion sumo wrestler from Kurayoshi, Tottori. 横綱琴櫻

Statue of Yokozuna Kotozakura, a grand champion sumo wrestler from Kurayoshi, Tottori.　横綱琴櫻

Back view of statue of Yokozuna Kotozakura, a grand champion sumo wrestler from Kurayoshi, Tottori.

About Yokozuna Kotozakura. 横綱琴櫻

Monument for Yokozuna Kotozakura. 横綱琴櫻

Small museum for Yokozuna Kotozakura. Too bad it was closed when I was there. 横綱琴櫻

Signs in English.

Benzaiten Hall next to Dairenji Temple. 弁財天堂

Benten Hall 弁財天堂

Benzaitendo Hall

To Benten Hall.

To Dairenji Temple.

Gate to Dairenji Temple.

Dairenji Temple.

Dairenji Temple bell.

Old telephone.

Ring out the old year with the temple bell.

Dairenji Temple main hall in Kurayoshi, Tottori. Belongs to the Jodo-shu Buddhist sect. 大蓮寺

Dairenji Temple main hall in Kurayoshi, Tottori. 大蓮寺

Dairenji Temple in Kurayoshi, Tottori also has graves of local merchants who made it rich and local samurai. 大蓮寺

Dairenji Temple bell

Small Buddha

Dairenji Temple

Kurayoshi, Tottori manhole.

Earthquake damage on the plaster.

Komyoji Temple with red roof tiles.

Condemned.

Central Yanai has a beautiful street of traditional buildings having traditional white walls (shirakabe). This area is also a National Important Traditional Townscape Preservation District (重要伝統的建造物群保存地区).

The white-walled street is called Shirakabe Machinami (白壁の町並み), a short walk from JR Yanai Station.

Train platform at JR Yanai Station.

JR Yanai Station.

Inside JR Yanai Station.

Map of central Yanai.

The goldfish is the symbol of Yanai, Yamaguchi. Here's on atop a mailbox.

Road in front of JR Yanai Station. Walk straight on this road to the white-walled street.

A few scupltures along the road to the white-walled street. Yanai, Yamaguchi

Directional signs in English.

Yanai, Yamaguchi

About Yanai's white-walled street.

Cross the river.

First you see Muroya-no-Sono, a longhouse museum.

Street heading to JR Yanai Station.

Entrance to the white-walled street. Even the private home on the right is white.

Private home blending in with the white-walled street in Yanai, Yamaguchi.

Sign indicating that this area is an Important Traditional Townscape.

About Yanai's goldfish connection.

Walking along Yanai's white-walled street.

Yanai's white-walled street has a long history going back to the Muromachi Period (1337-1573). It used to be a merchant quarter. The street is about 200 meters long.