Experience Hall / Accommodation Experience (Training) Facility Spots in Tottori Area

  • Tottori Sand Dunes Rakudaya
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    3.0
    11 Reviews
    Travel / Tourism
    Tottori Pref. Tottorishi Fukubechouyuyama 2164-806
    Tottori Sand Dunes Rakudaya is a shop selling local specialty products that also offers experiential activities, located on Prefectural Route 319 in Yuyama, Fukube Town, Tottori City. The shop sells local Route such as “Twenty Century Pears,” as well as camel-related goods and local sakes, etc. Tottori Sand Dunes Rakudaya also offers camel rides over the Tottori Sand Dunes, and opportunities to have your photo taken with camels.

    駱駝は乗りたかったのですが、時間的な都合などで止めましたが、梨のソフトというのが見えたのでそちらにしました。梨と言うので楽しみにしていましたが、梨の風味はあまり感じられずどちらかと言うとブドウに似た様な感じで一寸がっかりでした。しかし、砂丘が楽しめたので良かったです。

  • Togeikan (Akagawara Building No. 11)
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    3.5
    3 Reviews
    Travel / Tourism
    Tottori Kurayoshi-shi Shinmachi 1
    This ceramics shop and studio is situated amidst Kurayoshi's Shirakabe Storehouses (White Wall District), which has been designated the Kurayoshi City Utsubukitamagawa Important Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings. The shop is outfitted with an electric kiln and offers a fun and easy pottery making activity for visitors. The shop's pottery, dubbed Utsubuki ware, uses a glaze which can only be obtained in the Kurayoshi region. Inside a renovated old Japanese home, you can make your very own pottery, such as a beer mug, mug, or yunomi teacup. The shop can handle up to around 40 participants at a time and is gaining attention as a tour destination for student field trips, company outings, and other travel groups.

    駐車場が空いていなかったので、近くの市役所の駐車場に止めて歩きました。 鳥取県は民芸の里ということで、趣のある器がいろんなところで見られます。 この建物にも、たくさん展示してありました。 今回は陶芸体験は見ているだけでしたが、次回は時間を取って体験したいと思います。

  • Handmade Yokaikobo & KItaro Yubinyasan
    Travel / Tourism
    Tottori Sakaiminato-shi Matsugae Cho 25
  • Aoya Washi Studio, Tottori City
    Travel / Tourism
    Tottori Pref. Tottorishi Aoyachouyamane 313
    Aoya Washi Studio is a workshop located on Prefectural Route 280 in Yamane, Aoya Town, Tottori City, which specializes in Inshu Washi (one of the oldest traditional Japanese paper “washi,” made specially in old Inaba Country, now in Eastern part of Tottori Prefecture). The Studio hosts regular exhibitions featuring art works created using Inshu Washi, and also offers classes in paper-making, paper lampshade making, etc. There is a museum shop that sells Washi products and paper-making kits, along with a café serving home-made pizza, etc.
  • Mana Kairo no Sato
    Shopping
    Tottori Iwami-gun Iwamicho Mana 1064-2
    This shop, located an eight-minute drive from Iwami Station on the JR San-in Main Line , sells Mana ware, a type of pottery with a charming texture and appearance made with local clay. Examples of Mana ware are displayed in the shop's studio and gallery; Mana ware making activities, taught by director Isao Nanba, are also held here. The classes make use of clay gathered from local fallow fields, and the pieces participants make are fired in a handmade kiln using kindling gathered from the surrounding mountains; during the roughly two hour activity, participants can make several teacups or plates. Class participants can also enjoy using pine ash and silver powder to paint and decorate Mana ware in their own original style. Pieces made by class participants take around one to three months to complete and can be received by mail or directly from the shop.
  • Daisen Tour Desk
    Travel / Tourism
    Tottori Saihaku-gun Daisencho
    This sightseeing information center offers a variety of activity programs to help you enjoy the great outdoors of Mt. Daisen, the tallest peak in the Chugoku region. The center offers a variety of original tours, such as walking amidst a veritable shower of green leaves in a virgin beech forest, snowshoeing across the pure white landscapes of the mountain in winter, and a nighttime stargazing tour in which participants also become photographic subjects. On the center's popular cycling tour, you can take in the greenery and refreshing breezes of Mt. Daisen from an electric pedal-assist bicycle, gliding pleasantly up and down hills. The center's tea time, which includes tea made with Mt. Daisen spring water, is also not to be missed.
  • Kaming Saji Paper Gallery
    Travel / Tourism
    Tottori Tottori-shi Sajicho Fukuzono 146-4
    "This Japanese washi paper studio is located in Saji-cho, a district rich in natural beauty and surrounded by mountain and river. The studio makes and sells Inshu washi, a traditional paper which is stated to have even been presented to the emperor in the ancient, Heian-period compilation of government regulations called the ""Engi-shiki."" Made using the bast fibers of paper mulberry, Oriental paper bush, and Diplomorpha sikokiana, washi leverages the innate qualities of natural fibers to produce a paper that is elegant, supple, and elastic to the touch. The techniques of making Inshu washu have only been passed down in Tototri City's Saji-cho and Aoya-cho; during the Edo period, the paper was widely used for official documents by the Tottori Domain government, and by the common people as well. The studio can be identified by its triangular roof. The studio offers a paper making activity as well."
  • Shikano Soba Dojo
    Travel / Tourism
    Tottori Tottori-shi Shikanocho Shikano 2448-9
    About 30 minutes by car from Hawai Onsen, this soba making workshop is adjacent to the Shikano Omoshiro Market with its specialty products and crafts. They serve soba noodles made with 100% buckwheat flour in a warm and inviting wooden shop. Of course, they make the fragrant noodles with Shikano-cho's own buckwheat flour. They use Yamato yam (a high-grade variety) as a binding agent, along with spring water pumped directly from underground. They hold soba making workshops year-round that are open to everyone, including individuals. The freshly prepared and cooked soba is superbly tasty. You can take the leftover soba home.
  • Mochigasecho Kanko Bussan Center
    Travel / Tourism
    Tottori Tottori-shi Mochigasecho Befu 33-3
    A tourist center dedicated to Mochigase Hina Doll Floating, a folk event in Mochigase for the girls' festival where a pair of male and female paper dolls are set adrift. They sell Sandawara, hina dolls on straw boats used to wish for health and avoiding misfortune. They are essential for the event. The shop sells kits for making Sandawara too. It's next to the Nagashibina Doll Museum with its chisen kaiyu garden (a style of garden that features a path around a pond) and an eatery. Lots of people who come to view the Nagashibina dolls and try making them at the workshop can be seen relaxing there. Cafe Bonbori overlooks the garden and offers old-fashioned amazake (sweet fermented rice drink), sweets, snacks, and daily lunch specials.
  • Furusato Kenkomura
    Travel / Tourism
    Tottori Tohaku-gun Misasacho Yokote 15-1
    A hands-on facility for experiencing local culture about 15 minutes by car from Kurayoshi Station on the JR San-in Main Line. Located on the banks of the Mitoku River, there is a specialty shop, a textile hall, and workshop studio. The shop's most popular food item is their Kami-no-Shokutaku, limited to 30 meals per day. It's known for using a local soybean variety grown at Kamikura near Mt. Mitoku that contains 1.5 to 2 times more isoflavone than regular soybeans. Sets of all-you-can-eat natto made with large soybeans on rice with tofu, pickles, and miso soup are served as well. They also offer unique workshops like for Misasa-ori weaving using Tottori pear dyeing fabric, and Hakuro-yaki pottery, related to a local folk tale.
  • Furusato Nichinanmura
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Tottori Hino-gun Nichinancho Kadonokami 2962-1
    "A hands-on workshop complex about 30 minutes from Niimi Interchange on the Chugoku Expressway. Set amid the living nature of the Hino River's headwaters, it has a restaurant, lodging, an exercise area, and a farm where they hold programs. Nichinan-mura is located at an elevation of 600 meters where Tottori, Shimane, Okayama, and Hiroshima prefectures meet. The cool summers and few insects make it a popular spot for various leisure activities. They continually promote nature through their ""four pillars"" of nature observation, agricultural and forestry experiences, sports, and creative activities."
  • Takumi no Yakata
    Travel / Tourism
    Tottori Yazu-gun Wakasacho Yadora 37
    A workshop studio located a 15-minute walk from Wakasa Station on the Wakasa Railway. Visitors can join woodworking programs making use of the area's rich forest resources. The storehouse-style building is modeled after structures on Kura-dori and Kariya-dori streets typical of the Wakasa townscape. Through making kokeshi dolls or teacup saucers, you can get in touch with the wooden crafts that have long been a part of people's lives in the region. A small gallery and display room is used for art and craft exhibits.

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Tottori prefecture is Japanese seasonal diversity at its best: Huge sand dunes cover the north coast, making for the perfect summer beach trip complete with the unexpected addition of camels; November brings the delectable snow crab, while winter around Mount Daisen, the Chugoku region’s highest mountain, promises snow sports and magical views.

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