Ikeda Family Cemetery

This graveyard, located a 15-minute drive from Tottori Station, was for the Ikeda family, whose members served as lords of Tottori. Surrounded by a fence and situated amidst the abundant natural beauty of Inaba-Hoki, the graveyard encloses some 70 graves occupied by members of the Ikeda family, including 11 generations of lords, from Ikeda Mitsunami, the first lord of Tottori Domain, which was valued at 370 thousand square kilometers between Inaba and Hoki; to the 11th generation Ikeda Yoshitaka; as well as their wives. In the graveyard, there can be found the distinctive turtleback tombs of the lords, and, for other members of the family, two-tier grave markers, as well as stone markers which became standardized in the Edo period. Because the graveyard reveals the funeral customers of an Edo period samurai lord family and is of immense historical value, it has been designated a National Historic Site. Today, the graveyard is also a popular destination to view cherry blossoms in spring and autumn foliage in fall.