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Travel Blogs from Tottori
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
... the sculptures of Austrian architectures except "the Opera". There was a sand sculture called "People in Desert" built by a Japanese artist, but on the day, strangely, it was half-covered with snow. It was the first time to see sand dunes sculptures, so I was touched by the detailed sculptures. I was lucky to make it to the exhibition which was scheduled to finish on the next day.
After I got ...
Totally Tottori
... up a few snacks from a local minimart. Tottoris main attraction for visitors is its sand dunes, which are situated on the coast about 5km out of town. These dunes cover a large area, and they are massive , more like giant hills. It had just rained so they were easy to work up (quite easy but still steep). After creating some artworks in the sand, it started to drizzle again so ...
More Onsens and Ryokans....plus a Japanese garden
... Britain`s without being anywhere near as good.) The museum and gardens were quite good, my favorite was seeing all the different Japanese gardens. These are very different to Englsih gardens, as they are ornamental ie you do not actually walk on the gardens just look at them from the inside of the building. There is a lot of attention to detail spent on the arranging of all the different features of the garden e.g trees, rocks, plants and ...
Good Bye to Japan
... 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 ...
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Other places to stay in Tottori
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Amimoto
727-20 Fukubechohosogawa, Tottori | Ryokan -
Konankaku
Tottori Onsen, Tottori | Ryokan -
Tsuneten
Tottori Station, Tottori | Ryokan -
Watabe Ryokan
1-5-34 Karochokita, Tottori | Ryokan
