12 Sights in Tottori, Japan (with Map and Images)

Tottori Castle was a Japanese castle located in Tottori, Tottori Prefecture in the San'in Region of western Japan. It has been protected by the central government as a National Historic Site since 1957 with the area under protection expanded in 1987. The Historical Site designation also includes the Taikōganaru (太閤ヶ平) fortification erected by Toyotomi Hideyoshi during the 1581 Siege of Tottori.

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Kozenji Temple is a temple of the Yellow Wood sect located in Tottori City, Tottori Prefecture. The name of the mountain is Mt. Ryumine. It is the Bodhi temple of the Ikeda family, the lord of the Tottori domain.

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Ube Jinja (宇倍神社) is a Shinto shrine in the Kokufu-cho neighborhood of the city of Tottori in Tottori Prefecture, Japan. It is the ichinomiya of former Inaba Province. The main festival of the shrine is held annually on April 21.

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Shitori Jinja is a shrine located in Wabun, Tottori City, Tottori Prefecture, Japan. It is a Shikiuchi company, and the former company name is Gosha. It sits on the side of a mountain on the west side of the village of Wabun in the southwestern part of Tottori City.

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Kannon-in , formally known as Fudarakusan Jigen-ji Kannon-in (補陀落山慈眼寺観音院), is a Buddhist temple in Uemachi district of the city of Tottori, Tottori Prefecture, Japan. Kannon-in was built early in the Edo period and is noted for its Edo-style Japanese garden.

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Daiunin is a temple of the Tendai sect located in Tachikawa Town, Tottori Prefecture, Japan. The name of the mountain is Qianxiangshan, and the name of the temple is Dongryuji. The honzon is Amitabha. It is the 33rd shrine of the 33rd Guanyin Shrine in China.

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The Tottori Tōshō-gū (鳥取東照宮) is a Shinto shrine located in the city of Tottori, Tottori Prefecture, Japan. Until 2011, it was called the Ōchidani Jinja (樗谿神社). Four structures of the shrine, the Honden, Haiden and Heiden, and Karamon gate are designated National Important Cultural Properties. The surrounding area is a public park.

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The Tottori Folk Crafts Museum opened in Tottori, Japan, in 1949. It was established as the Tottori Mingeikan by Yoshida Shōya , local advocate of the mingei folk craft movement, who formed a craft guild in 1931 and opened the craft shop "Takumi" in the city the following year. In 1933, Yoshida opened a shop by the same name in Tokyo's Ginza district. Both shops are still in operation as of 2023. The building in which the Tottori museum is housed was designated a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2012.

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Hijirijinja is a shrine located at the western end of the Gyotoku district of Tottori City. It is located on the Kano Highway (equivalent to the current Prefectural Roads No. 41 and No. 21) that connects Tottori Castle and Kano Castle, and where the highway approaches the Chiyo River, which flows through Tottori City.

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Watanabe Museum Of Art opened in Tottori, Tottori Prefecture, Japan in 1978. It houses the collection of Tottori resident Dr Hajime Watanabe, which includes Buddhist sculptures, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese ceramics, ukiyo-e, and over two hundred sets of samurai armour.

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Genchuji Temple is a Buddhist temple of the Pure Land sect located in Shinshinji-cho, Tottori City, Tottori Prefecture, Japan. The official name is Xuanchu Temple. It is a bodhi temple of the swordsman Araki Mataemon, who is widely known for the duel of the locksmith Tsuji, and there is an Araki Mataemon Relic Museum in the precincts that exhibits items and materials related to the case.

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The Fuse Kofun (布勢古墳) is a Kofun period burial mound located in the Fuse neighborhood of the city of Tottori, Tottori Prefecture in the San'in region of Japan. The tumulus was designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 1974.

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