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- Aoyama Gōshō Furusato-kan (青山剛昌ふるさと館) The museum of the creator of Detective Conan: you can try out his turbo-engine skateboard.
- Enchōen — Chinese garden (中国庭園 燕趙園) Built and first assembled in China: yellow tiles, the colour of the emperors.
- Eshima Ōhashi — the ‘Beta-fumi-zaka’ (江島大橋) 44.7 m above the sea, real gradient 6.1%: a car advert made it look vertical.
- Hakuto Shrine (白兎神社) Here, says the Kojiki, the white rabbit washed its wound and sprinkled rush pollen on it.
- Jinpūkaku (仁風閣) It was designed by Katayama Tōkuma, like the Akasaka Palace: the future Taishō slept here.
- Kurayoshi — Utsubuki-Tamagawa, white-storehouse neighbourhood (倉吉市打吹玉川) Along the Tamagawa, storehouses with white walls and red roof tiles: a protected district since 1998.
- Misasa Onsen (三朝温泉) In 1164 a samurai spared a white wolf: the spring was revealed to him in a dream.
- Mitokusan Sanbutsu-ji — Nageiredō (三徳山三佛寺・投入堂) Legend: En no Gyōja hurled it here in 706. Tree rings date it to 1098.
- Mizuki Shigeru Memorial Museum (水木しげる記念館) Reopened in 2024 with 1.5 times the space: Mizuki's years as a soldier are there too.
- Mizuki Shigeru Road (水木しげるロード) 178 bronze statues of yōkai along 800 metres: there were 23 when it opened, in 1993.
- Mount Daisen (大山) The true summit, Kengamine (1729 m), is closed because of a landslide: you can only climb as far as Misen, 1709 m.
- Nashikko-kan — nashi pear museum (なしっこ館) The only museum in Japan devoted to the pear: a 74-year-old tree marks its entrance.
- Ōgamiyama Jinja Okunomiya (大神山神社奥宮) 700 metres of natural stone: the approach up to the shrine is the longest in Japan.
- Sand Museum — Museum of sand (鳥取砂丘 砂の美術館) Sculptures made of nothing but sand and water: at the end of the exhibition they all return to the sand they were born from.
- Tottori Castle — Kyūshō Kōen (鳥取城跡・久松公園) Hideyoshi's siege of 1581: after two months people were eating roots and corpses from hunger.
- Tottori Hanakairō — flower park (とっとり花回廊) A glass dome 21 m high and 50 m wide: inside, 60 varieties of lilies are always in flower.
- Tottori Mingei Museum (鳥取民藝美術館) The doctor Yoshida Shōya opened it in 1949: 5,000 pieces, starting with Korean Joseon ceramics.
- Tottori Sand Dunes (鳥取砂丘) 545 hectares of dunes, 16 km by 2.4: a 90-metre rise to the crest of the Uma-no-se.
- Uradome Coast (浦富海岸) 15 km of cliffs: a small boat goes into the caves where large boats cannot.
- Wakasa-kaidō — home of the Tottori Shanshan Matsuri (若桜街道) In 2014, 1,688 umbrella dancers broke the world record here, 5 minutes.
- Yura Station — ‘Conan Station’ (由良駅・コナン駅) Since 2013 the station has carried the nickname ‘Conan’, in honour of the manga artist born in the town.