Fukura Sake Brewery designed THE FUKURA Junmai Daiginjō (福羅酒造 THE FUKURA 福羅 純米大吟醸) as a premium sake in the low price range of 1000 JPY by keeping the raw material costs down without compromising on their passion for sake brewing or the manufacturing process. Utilising local water, the spring...
The curse of mass tourism, or rather, Instagram: Tottori Prefecture started to enforce a prefectural ordinance banning graffiti on the famous sand dunes just outside Tottori City after a recent spike in graffiti incidents. Since 2009, over 3,300 incidents of "sand graffiti" have been recorded...
Tsuzurao Castle (防己尾城 Tsuzurao-jō) is located on the Western shore of Lake Koyama in modern-day Tottori City.
It was constructed in 1579 by Yoshioka Sadakatsu (吉岡定勝, 1532-1606), a vassal of the Inaba Yamana clan.
During Oda Nobunaga's campaign in Western Honshū in 1580/81, his general...
Tenjinyama Castle was a stronghold of the Inaba Yamana clan. It was also known as Fuse-Tenjinyama Castle (布勢天神山城 Fuse-tenjinyamajō). The notion that Yamana Katsutoyo (山名勝豊), the fifth shugo (military governor) of Inaba, constructed the castle in 1466 seems unlikely, given that Katsutoyo died in...
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