Our Tottori-born reporter buys some “sand eggs” cooked at insanely high temperatures to determine just how egg-citing they are.
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![Two days to hunt down all of Tottori’s 20 Pokémon manhole covers [Part One]](https://soranews24.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2025/09/imgi_170_IMG_6363-2.jpg?w=640 "Two days to hunt down all of Tottori’s 20 Pokémon manhole covers [Part One]")
With a Pokéfuta in every municipality, Tottori lets you explore the entire prefecture on your quest to catch ’em all.
Finding this adorable train can feel like an RPG sidequest, but when the reward is this cute, we’re game.
Legends say Sai no Kawara exists on the border between the realms of the living and the dead, but the map says it’s in Tottori.
The statue offers a peek into the past based on actual skeletal remains and DNA analysis from southern Japan–and kind of looks like someone I know.
There’s only one truth here and it’s that fans will be excited to ride in these stylishly updated train cars!
A unique store filled with curries from around the country, featuring unusual local ingredients.
Driver should have spotted multiple warning signs as soon as she said where she wanted to go.
Region famous for its sand dunes gets beautiful public art pieces featuring more than a dozen different Pokémon species.
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