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Home to Japan's largest sand dunes, complete with camel rides, plus museums celebrating local manga artists. The country's least-populous prefecture, quiet and quirky.

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Best Hotels Near Tottori-Daigakumae Station | The Airport-Side Campus Stop
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Best Hotels Near Tottori-Daigakumae Station | The Airport-Side Campus Stop

The campus stop beside the Conan-branded airport and a swan-lake — honest budget strategy near the dunes.

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Best Hotels Near Chizu Station | The Cedar Post Town on the Express Line
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Best Hotels Near Chizu Station | The Cedar Post Town on the Express Line

A cedar-rich post town where expresses pause — a 40-room timber mansion, forest-bathing valleys, and a bubblegum-pink station…

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Best Hotels Near Kurayoshi Station | White Walls & Radium Baths
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Best Hotels Near Kurayoshi Station | White Walls & Radium Baths

White-walled storehouses along a carp stream — and the world-famous radium baths of Misasa up the valley.

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Best Hotels Near Yonago Station | Daisen’s Port City & the Ghost Platform
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Best Hotels Near Yonago Station | Daisen’s Port City & the Ghost Platform

Mt. Daisen above, seaside onsen beside, and a ghost-numbered platform where yokai trains depart for Kitaro's town.

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Best Hotels Near Tottori Station | The Dune City by the Sea of Japan
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Best Hotels Near Tottori Station | The Dune City by the Sea of Japan

Japan's Sahara-by-the-sea — climbing dunes at dawn, sand sculptures by masters, and snow crab all winter long.

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Mt. Daisen: Western Japan’s Fuji — Beech Forests, Sacred Slopes, Soft-Serve & Snow Crab
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Mt. Daisen: Western Japan’s Fuji — Beech Forests, Sacred Slopes, Soft-Serve & Snow Crab

Daisen rises 1,729 meters straight off the Sea of Japan coast — an old volcano whose western profile…

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Tottori Sand Dunes Done Properly: Sandboarding, the Sand Museum & the Uradome Coast
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Tottori Sand Dunes Done Properly: Sandboarding, the Sand Museum & the Uradome Coast

The Tottori Sand Dunes stretch sixteen kilometers along the Sea of Japan — the country’s largest accessible dune…

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Yokai & Detective Conan: Tottori’s Manga Pilgrimage Towns of Sakaiminato and Hokuei
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Yokai & Detective Conan: Tottori’s Manga Pilgrimage Towns of Sakaiminato and Hokuei

Anime fans fly to Tokyo for Akihabara and to real-life film locations across the country — yet almost…

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Nageiredo at Mt. Mitoku: Climbing to Japan’s Most Dangerous National Treasure
Culture & History

Nageiredo at Mt. Mitoku: Climbing to Japan’s Most Dangerous National Treasure

Halfway up a cliff on Mt. Mitoku in central Tottori, a small wooden hall stands wedged into a…

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Misasa Onsen: The World’s Great Radium Hot Spring & the Bamboo-Swallowed Railway of Kurayoshi
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Misasa Onsen: The World’s Great Radium Hot Spring & the Bamboo-Swallowed Railway of Kurayoshi

Misasa Onsen, in the hills of central Tottori, holds one of the world’s highest concentrations of radon in…

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