Tottori

Tottori

Welcome to Tottori.

Any time is good to visit Tottori, it's a really scenic train trip (or drive).

Click here to read an article in the New York Times about Tottori's famous Sand Museum published in April of 2017.

"[Tottori] has the lowest population of any prefecture in the country. No bullet train stops here. It ranks 39th out of the nation’s 47 prefectures in attracting tourists. But what Tottori does have, in abundance, is sand: Undulating golden dunes stretch for about 16km along the coast here, so majestic they have been turned into a national park."

For the past decade, sand sculpture artists have gathered here every year for two weeks at the world’s only indoor sand museum to mount an exhibit of improbably intricate tableaus, all crafted from about 3,000 tons of sand."