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Tottori University Arid Land Research Center
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Tottori can refer to: * Tottori Prefecture, a Japanese prefecture with 613,229 people ** Tottori (city), a Japanese city with 202,015 people * Tottori Domain, a Japanese domain in the Edo Period * Tottori Airport * Tottori Sand Dunes The are sand dunes located outside the city center of Tottori in Tottori Prefecture, Japan. At a length of and less than wide, it is the largest sand dune in Japan. The sand dunes are part of San'in Kaigan Geopark, which is part of The UNE ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tottori Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region of Honshu. Tottori Prefecture is the least populous prefecture of Japan at 570,569 (2016) and has a geographic area of . Tottori Prefecture borders Shimane Prefecture to the west, Hiroshima Prefecture to the southwest, Okayama Prefecture to the south, and Hyōgo Prefecture to the east. Tottori is the capital and largest city of Tottori Prefecture, with other major cities including Yonago, Kurayoshi, and Sakaiminato. Tottori Prefecture is home to the Tottori Sand Dunes, the largest sand dunes system in Japan, and Mount Daisen, the highest peak in the Chūgoku Mountains. Etymology The word "Tottori" in Japanese is formed from two ''kanji'' characters. The first, , means "bird" and the second, means "to get". Early residents in the area made their living catching the region's plentiful waterfowl. The name first appears in the Nihon shoki in the 23rd year of the Emperor Suinin (213 AD) when Yukuha Tana, an elder from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tottori (city)
is the capital and the largest Cities of Japan, city of Tottori Prefecture in the Chūgoku region of Japan. Within Japan the city is best known for Tottori Sand Dunes, its sand dunes which are a popular tourist attraction, drawing visitors from outside the prefecture. The sand dunes are also important as a centre for research into arid agriculture, hosting Tottori University's Arid Land Research Center. Most of Tottori is located in the western part of the San'in Kaigan Geopark. , the city has an estimated population of 192,912 and a population density of 250 persons per km2. The total area is 765.31 km2. Geography The city of Tottori which located in east next to the Chūgoku Mountains, the city flows the Sendai River. Much of city's gained as for result of mergers and neighboring satellite towns. Neighboring municipalities Tottori Prefecture * Yazu * Misasa, Tottori, Misasa *Chizu, Tottori, Chizu * Iwami, Tottori, Iwami * Yurihama, Tottori, Yurihama * Wakasa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tottori Domain
270px, Ikeda Yoshinori 270px, Front gate of the Tottori Domain residence in Edo was a feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan, in what is now Tottori Prefecture on the island of Shikoku. It controlled all of Inaba Province and virtually all of Hōki Province was centered around Tottori Castle, and was ruled throughout its history by a branch of the Ikeda clan. Tottori Domain was dissolved in the abolition of the han system in 1871 and is now part of Tottori Prefecture. Tottori Domain had two sub-domains, and . In addition, the two branches of the Arao clan, who served as hereditary ''karō'' of the clan and castellans of Yonago Castle (15,000 ''koku'') and Kurayoshi Jin'ya (12,000 ''koku'') both had ''kokudaka'' equivalents to that of ''daimyō''. History In 1600, after the Battle of Sekigahara, Ikeda Tsuneoki's third son, Ikeda Nagayoshi (Ikeda Terumasa's younger brother) was awarded estates in Hōki Province with a ''kokudaka'' of 60,000 ''koku'' by T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tottori Airport
is an airport serving the city of Tottori, Tottori Prefecture, Japan. The airport is owned and operated by the , and has a passenger volume of approximately 330,000 per year. The Airport is nicknamed , called after merged with names from ''Tottori Sand Dunes'' and ''Detective Conan'' (''Case Closed'') of manga artist Gosho Aoyama, who was born in Hokuei. History was built south of the present airport in 1957, and had a runway long and wide. It closed in 1964. In 1967 the present-day Tottori Airport was built and opened by the prefectural government and had a runway long and wide. The runway was successively lengthened in 1972 to , in 1985 to , and to its present length of in 1990. The runway is constructed of asphalt concrete. Tottori Airport originally had service only to Tokyo, but the Tokyo service ceased in 1969 when the airport began flights to Osaka. The airport had service to both Osaka and Tokyo service from 1979 to 1985, but now only serves Tokyo. Facilities ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
