Explore the world-like sand hill in Thousand and One Nights in Japan

Located along the Japanese coast region in the city of Tottori, sand dunes have amazing beauty.

More specifically, they are the only sand dunes throughout Japan.

There are no features that make up the image of Japan, such as sushi, cherry blossoms, Hello Kitty . Tottori city is like the Arab world in the Thousand and One Nights.

The city has winding sand dunes with a height of nearly 50 meters, people here use camels as a means of transport and cargo. The illusion on the desert replaces the glare of the city.

Sea breeze sweeps over sand dunes along the Tottori city coast of Japan.This area has been narrowed down in recent years due to changes in flow and encroachment of plants.(Photo: Sean Pavone).

Tottori Sakyu or Tottori Sand Hill , was formed thousands of years ago when the sand of the nearby Sendai River fell into the sea. Strong winds and fast currents bring sand along the coast, forming a giant desert in the heart of sushi.

The area is only about 14.5 km long and about 2.4 km wide, but Tottori is a small piece of land with huge things: Kaigan National Park, UNESCO's Global Geopark , is a symbol of orange concluding the preservation of the country's history, culture and biodiversity with the world.

The wind draws long runways on the sandy surface of Tottori sand dunes.(Photo: Yoshiki Fujiwara).

Thick layers of snow cling to the sand layers of Tottori in winter.(Photo: JTB Media Creation, Inc).

Tottori may not have appeared in Thousand and One Nights, but its significant appearance in Japanese literary works reveals its long-standing cultural significance.

Takeo Arishima Japanese poet has made these sand dunes become more famous through poems written about the love story of the boy with the married woman, his suffering is like being struck by sand. Cover Tottori. The young man then joined the other woman to commit suicide here.

Decades later, in the 1960s, Tottori appeared in the novel The Woman in the Desert by Kōbō Abe. It was the most prominent work of the time and the story-based film was nominated for an Oscar.

The two children were carrying water in exhaustion at the tall sand dunes of Tottori, the position in the picture is about 45 meters above sea level.(Photo: Buddhika Weerasinghe).

With more than two million tourists annually, there are many tourism activities organized in Japan's unique sand dunes , such as camel riding, sand sliding, paragliding and visiting a sculpture sculpture statue.

Although there is no overnight camping service in the desert like in Dubai, daytime activities can leave you with unforgettable impressions of this temperate desert area.