Hey everyone!
Today, I would like to introduce to you about my previous trip in Japan.
I went Tottori & Yonago & Matsue last month for 3 days 2 night trip.
In this post, I would like to tell you more about Tottori.
First, do you know Tottori?
I think if you are not living in Japan, you will never know this place as it is not as well known as Kyoto, Nara, Kobe, Hiroshima and etc.
I knew Tottori after I have been here for three years.
So I think most of you will ask, “Is there any special tourist spot there?”
Of course!! Or else, I won’t spend money to go there have a look.
Ok, let’s enter the main topic of today!
Tottori is one of the prefectures in Japan. Also, it is the least populated prefecture among the 47 prefectures. The capital of this prefecture is Tottori city.It takes 1.5 hours flight to there from Tokyo.
So what is its famous spot? Continue reading then you will know it.

This is the mascot of Tottori.

Destination 1: Tottori Sand Dunes
Tottori is famous with its sand dunes(鳥取砂丘). These sand dunes are the largest sand dunes in Japan. They are up to 2km wide and 50m high.
50m high steep sand hill is like the one in the right picture.
As I have still no money to visit Egypt, beginner stage like me can only come here for my first desert experience!Anyway, it was really a good experience at here, as you could know how hot is the desert actually and the difficulties of walking in the sand dunes.
Yeah..I must have my jump up photo everywhere i visited.
The sand is really soft, warm and clean.
From my own experience and the reviews in Internet, the sand will get into your sneakers & sports shoes. You can try to walk with naked feet but you will have blisters on your feet if you don’t mind. The best shoes to walk there is boots. You can have a free rental fishmonger boots but to keep your own shoes in locker, it is charged 100yen. So either you wear the public fishmonger heavy boots or you bring your own stylish boots there.However, it is really worthy to pay a visit there because the beauty of the sand of desert is really amazing. And you can ride a real camel to take photos. You can ride it to go around if you are willing to pay more.

Destination 2 : The Sand Museum
A 5 minutes walk away from the sand dunes, there is The Sand Museum; a unique museum that displays large sand sculptures by artists around the world.
Exhibitions change year to year and this year ‘s theme is Russia.
From the video I saw in the museum, it said that the sand sculpture are made by sand and water only. Really respect their effort of making this kind of fantastic art.


Overview of the museum.
Destination 3 : Uradome Beach
Other than that, there is a beautiful beach which called Uradome Beach(浦富海岸). This beach is one of the tourist spot too as the seawater is considered quite clean.
And the scenery looks like Tanah Lot in Bali. Do you feel so?

By the way, this beach is 40 minutes bus journey away from Tottori station.You can visit all these tourist spots within one day.
Add-On: What are the MUST EAT dishes?
For dining, don’t forget to get a try for Tottori curry. It is really tasty but not salty.

Also, there are famous eggs at there, which are called sand dunes’ eggs. The egg is hard-boiled using the heat of sand dunes. I think you will ask me whether it tasted like sand or not. Unfortunately, I never eat the sand before so I don’t know whether the taste is similar or not, but I can say it is really delicious! You MUST TRY!

This tofu tube‐shaped fish paste cake is one of the local specialty too in Tottori.

Besides that, Tottori is famous with pear. Too bad to say that I went the wrong season, or else I can have pear picking session in my trip.
Ok, ended my post of Tottori.
Now, do you feel to pay a visit to Tottori ?
It is really a good place for those who are weary with the crowded city’s life. The place is not so crowded like Kyoto and you can feel something unique and interesting by visiting Tottori I promise.
Hope you enjoyed my travel post.