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The Sand Museum
The only museum in the world for sand sculpture; each year's works are destroyed and returned to sand when the show closes.
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TottoriArchitectureKurayoshi
Kurayoshi White-Walled Storehouses
White walls and red Sekishu tiles along a canal, each household with its own stone bridge across to its storehouse.
TottoriArt & CraftsKurayoshi
Kurayoshi Kasuri
Landscapes and birds woven from tie-dyed thread; the technique died out and was reconstructed by a preservation society.
TottoriArt & CraftsYonago
Yonago City Museum of Art
A small municipal museum, steady in showing local artists and printmaking.
TottoriArt & CraftsHōki
Shoji Ueda Museum of Photography
For the photographer who staged figures on the dunes; a window frames Mt Daisen as if through his own lens.
TottoriArt & CraftsSakaiminato
Mizuki Shigeru Road
A hundred and seventy-seven bronze monsters along 800 metres of street - comic characters installed as public sculpture.
TottoriMuseumsSakaiminato
Mizuki Shigeru Memorial Museum
Original pages showing how he drew backgrounds in obsessive detail and figures in almost none.
TottoriArt & CraftsSakaiminato
Yumihama Kasuri
Kasuri woven from cotton grown on the sand spit, its lucky motifs boldly simplified into pattern.
TottoriMuseumsDaisen
Mukibanda Site
One of Japan's largest Yayoi settlements, found just before a golf course was built and saved by local campaigning.
TottoriMuseumsTottori
Aoya Kamijichi Site
Groundwater preserved wooden and lacquered objects in quantity - a rare chance to see Yayoi lacquer work directly.
TottoriMuseumsYonago
Kamiyodo Temple Site
Fragments of wall painting contemporary with Horyuji's - proof the provinces held work of capital quality.
TottoriArchitectureChizu
Ishitani Residence
A timber baron's forty-room house, its earthen hall crossed by tier upon tier of local cedar beams.
TottoriArchitectureChizu
Itaibara Village
A mountain hamlet no road ever reached, its board roofs and stone terraces unchanged since the 1950s.
TottoriArt & CraftsYazu
Inkyuzan Ware
A former domain kiln still firing in a climbing kiln, using the same local clay and ash glaze.
TottoriArchitectureWakasa
Wakasa Railway Stations
The original 1930 wooden stations, turntable and water tower survive along the line, listed together.
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TottoriMuseumsHokuei
Gosho Aoyama Manga Factory
In the birthplace of Detective Conan's creator; the town is scattered with his characters, and even renamed its station.
TottoriMuseumsKurayoshi
Kurayoshi Figure Museum
In a circular former theatre, presenting figure sculpting as a branch of sculpture proper.
TottoriContemporary ArtTottori
Hakuto Coast
The shore of the Kojiki's white hare tale, its line of rocks standing in for the crocodiles' backs.
TottoriContemporary ArtIwami
Uradome Coast
Granite cut by the sea into arches and stacks, in water clear enough to show the rock beneath.
TottoriArchitectureMisasa
Misasa Onsen
Water rises in the riverbed and is bathed in where it stands, below three-storey wooden inns.
TottoriArt & CraftsTottori
Umbrellas of the Shan-Shan Festival
Paper umbrellas hung with bells and foil, four thousand of them turned at once - a tool become a mass instrument of form.
TottoriArt & CraftsTottori
Kirin Lion Dance
A lion head with a single horn, found only in this corner of Japan and recognised as national heritage.
TottoriContemporary ArtYurihama
Lake Togo and its Villages
A lake whose bed produces hot water, with a torii standing in the shallows.
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