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Kurayoshi, Misasa Travel Guides

In the Kurayoshi area, there is Taitokido, Tottori 20th Century Pear Memorial Museum, Uchibuki Park, Sekigane Hot Springs, Daitakuin Temple, Kurayoshi Museum and Kurayoshi History and Folklore Museum, Dairenji Temple, and Koitani Bridge, which appeared in the movie.

Kurayoshi is surrounded by four hot spring resorts, Sekigane Onsen, Misasa Onsen, Hawaii Onsen, and Togo Onsen, and along the Tamagawa River, there remain elegant town houses and storehouses with white walls. The houses are characterized by buildings built in the Meiji era, with stone bridges, brick roofs, and white plaster walls.

The Misasa area includes Sanbutsuji Dejaido, Iwakura Falls, and the Manoyama Old Battlefield. The area around Sanbutsuji Temple's Monjyudo Hall is popular for its beautiful autumn foliage in fall, and Baba Falls, where mysterious phenomena can be seen in summer. In addition, Misasa Onsen, surrounded by mountains, is one of the best radium hot springs in the world, and the famous Sanbutsuji Temple on the riverbank is located on Mt.

Recommended spots for Kurayoshi, Misasa

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Mitokusan Santokuji Temple

Spectacular Nature and Japan’s Most Dangerous National Treasure

Mt. Mitoku is 900 meters above sea level and is a nature-rich mountain for ascetic practices, dotted with precipitous cliffs and large rock caves. It is surrounded by high mountains with beautiful valleys that change with the seasons. Santokuji Temple stands at the foot of the mountain and houses t...»

Chinese-style Garden Encho-en

Built in 1995 as a symbol of friendship between Tottori Prefecture and Hebei Province, China, the Yancho Garden is a Chinese garden in the imperial garden forest style, which successive Chinese emperors were familiar with. The building was temporarily constructed in China, disassembled, and transpor...»

Misasa Onsen

One of the world’s leading radium hot springs in the San’in region

Misasa Onsen, a famous hot spring in the San'in region, stretches along the banks of the Misasa River and is known as one of the best radium hot springs in the world. There are 22 of 27 inns suitable for hot-spring cures and recreation, as well as for sightseeing and excursions. The abundant amount...»

Kurayoshi Shirakabedozogun

A unique landscape full of tradition and elegance

Along the Tamagawa River, which runs along the foot of Mt. Uchibuki, are storehouses with red Ishizhu tiles, white plaster walls, and black grilled cedar slats. Many of the buildings date from the late Edo period to the early Showa period, and the townscape is divided into Honmachi-dori, mainly con...»

Oshika Gorge

Tottori Nijisseiki Pear Museum Nashikko-kan

The only exhibition facility in Japan dedicated to pears.It is an attractive tourist facility that provides information on pears from Japan and abroad, serves as a base for exchange between producers and consumers, and offers amusement....»

Machiya Seisuian

A machiya built in the early Taisho era (1912-1926) is used as a restaurant. The specialty is "Mochi Shabu," a rice cake dish made in the image of a junihitoe robe and dipped in bonito broth. The restaurant was established more than 100 years ago in a traditional machiya building.The atmosphere of ...»

Kurayoshi Figure Museum

Japan’s oldest circular elementary school building has become a mecca for figures.

Kurayoshi City in Tottori Prefecture retains a beautiful townscape of red tiles and white-walled storehouses.Here is the oldest circular school building in Japan, which has been loved as a symbol of the local community.The spiral staircase that echoed with the sound of children's energetic footsteps...»

Utsubuki Park Dango

Tottori Beef Bone Ramen

Unique! A ramen to promote around the country.

A soy sauce flavored ramen in a soup stock taken from beef bones. While this type of ramen is quite rare, locals and shops in Tottori think it is quite normal. The obstinacy of a cook gained through experience, without undue fastidiousness. People who care for quality possessions without having desi...»

Azuki (Red bean) Zoni

Komo Tofu (Tottori Prefecture)

Flounder from Tottori Prefecture

White Rose Coffee

Igis

Tottori Wagyu Beef

Flying Fish from Tottori Prefecture

Watermelon from Tottori Prefecture

House 20th Century Pear

Natsuhime (Pear)

Hojo Wine

Umetsu Sake Brewery “Sand Dune Nagaimo Shochu”

Tochi Mochi (Tottori Prefecture)

Taste of Sanin Large Furoshiki

Yamamoto Otafukudo “Furoshiki Manju”

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