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Hotel National Tottori

159 Eiraku Onsencho Tottori, Tottori, Chugoku, 680-0834, Japan

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Sand in my shoes and other places

A travel blog entry by worthj1970

... I imagined the lives the people led that allowed them to spend a weekday afternoon in the ocean. Maybe they were teachers on summer break, or fishermen and their families, whose workday starts and ends before many people wake up.

After the beach we drove to the Tottori Sakyu, the sand dunes. It's hard to describe how cool the dunes are. I went there once before about ten years ago. The best thing to do is to watch the sunrise and sunset from the dunes. But I ...

Tottori Sand Dunes & Sand Museum

A travel blog entry by misocutlet

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... iced on the day. I approached the pond as close as possible, although it was dangerous to get close to the half iced pond.

There was a small sand museum near the dunes, having a sand sculptures exhibition. I paid 300 yen and enjoyed some sand sculptures built by international artists in the open air museum. The theme of the sculptures was "Austria". I have been to Austria, but I was not ...

Totally Tottori

A travel blog entry by jon-daniella

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... an English menu, and ate there. It was a nice dinner, a few bits of sashimi, some edamame beans, some yakitori etc. We headed back to our hotel through the constant rain to our hotel. Tottori is a fairly nondescript town and we were there on Sunday which meant that many shops were closed, which made it even more boring and provincial. It kind of reminded me of Slough in its pure ...

More Onsens and Ryokans....plus a Japanese garden

A travel blog entry by jon-daniella

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... Our food however was not the easiest meal we have both ever eaten. We are quite adventurous eaters, even Daniella as she is a bit new to eating fish, there were just some really weird foodstuffs put in front of us here. Some we could not decipher what on earth they are, just that they came from the sea and dont taste that good. We enjoyed our old favourites such as sashimi, tempura , beef and crab, but there were just too many things we ...

Good Bye to Japan

A travel blog entry by 1061kun

... but end of the end, I decided to return to Oregon so I can watch the Beaver games in person. I will catch the night bus to Osaka and then fly to Thailand on Thursday morning. Maybe it hasn't sunk in yet as I still have a lot of things to do before I go but I will soon be in the land of smiles with the temperature in the 90's (30's C), a big differnce of freezing weather and snow of Tottori. Let the journey ...