Tottori City Hotel
471 Ebisu-cho Tottori, Tottori, Chugoku, 680-0055, Japan
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Sand in my shoes and other places
... to wait around to let the sun go down. The kids toyed with the idea of walking up the dunes barefoot. Supposedly if you do that you can find money in the sand that people have dropped; you feel it with your toes. But the sand was way too hot and we stuck with shoes. Then I had the great idea of not taking the easy way up. No, I'd go straight up the side of the behemoth mound of sand. It was hard going. I fussed at my son for not toughing it out, which was unfair of me but ...
Tottori Sand Dunes & Sand Museum
... because I had to catch a train for the next destination. If I had not, I wouldn't have stayed in the reserved hostel on the night. I had no choice.
Tottori Area video
http://www.youtube.com/user/visitjapan# p/u/88/AmqeRBGRurA
It introduces more attractions of Tottori, including Uradome Coast and Iwai Hot Springs, and specialties of the area such as Iwagaki rock oyster and Matsubagani snow crab.
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Totally Tottori
... back to the bus stop (where we had an 1 hour wait to get back into town). At the bus stop , there was a shop selling all types of local foodstuffs (which you can try if you are hungry), these are very common in Japan. We were hungry so to fill our stomachs we pretended we were interested in each product, but bought none! In the evening , we found the only restaurant in town ...
More Onsens and Ryokans....plus a Japanese garden
... much we can do about it so we just have to get on with it. There was a shuttle bus from the nearest JR station (our JR pass has been an essential part of our journey round Japan so far -we could not have done it without it as it would have been really expensive buying each individual ticket. Japan has the best rail system of any country I have ever visited - it is very wide reaching, trains are quick and on time, obviously it is expensive but ...
Good Bye to Japan
Sorry for not putting up any new entry but I have been busy packing up all my things to ship back to Oregon. It is interesting to realize how much stuff I have collected over the last six and half years. Lots of CDs, books, videos, clothing and lots of paper and pictures. I also realize that the 3 plus years in Tottori is the longest period of time I have spent in the same place (apartment, house, or room) since ...



