Best location for ▲ To To Iwado Sea of Japan Please sandboard here. Center 0857 Tottori Sand Dunes Park Service Tottori Sand Dunes (Central) Exploration Map - Sandboarding Municipal Parking Lot Spot where fumon often form 23 Check the numbers on the wooden stakes as you explore. You might discover - 7652 （good wind conditions） Fumon a whole new side to the sand dunes… (Wind Ripples) Vegetation Carex kobomugi Elevation approx. 47m Ischaemum anthephoroides Fumon Elevation approx. 18m Tottori Sand Dunes (Wind Ripples) Geopark Center Sand shallot field shallot Sand Park Information First sand dune ridge Oasis “Notice Boards”（next (Sand Dune Meeting Hall) Tottori Sand Dunes to the footbath facilities） Second sand dune ridge Cluster of carex Elevation approx. 54m Vegetation （Umanose, or the Horse’s Back） pumila Stairway entrance Ischaemum anthephoroides Carex pumila Sand shallot flowers Slope Carex kobomugi （bloom in late October） Map showing the locations of the wooden Earthenware, stone tools, etc Ixeris repens Linaria japonica stakes placed throughout the Tottori Sand Vegetation Exposed Dunes in order to track sand movement volcanic (provided by the Committee for the ash Sightseeing lift Carex kobomugi Third sand dune ridge ●When you reach the sand Wedelia prostrate promenade dunes, look for the wooden Vitex rotundifolia Chojaganiwa Sand Dune shopping Line Prefectural Road Tottori Sand Dune stakes marked on this map Calystegia soldanella Sand Dune Center Heteropappus hispidus viewing platform to check your location, and Oigo enjoy the natural scenery of Suribachi the dunes. ●The distance between Sand Museum each stake is 100 meters. ●It takes about 2 minutes Scattered Vegetation ・ Hosokawa to walk between the stakes A wooden at a leisurely pace. ▲ location Carex kobomugi To Route 9 ●Be careful to not rush or Ischaemum anthephoroides marker over-exert yourself while Vitex rotundifolia enjoying the dunes. Oigo Suribachi (grinding bowl formation) Fukube Pear Picking Road Elevation approx. 66m Tottori University Arid Land Research Center 0857-23-3411 Sand Dunes North Entrance Sand Dunes East Entrance Erosion-control Literary Plaza (in front of the Information forest Exposed volcanic ash Tanka inscription Awasegatani by Arishima Takeo Suribachi Otanebenten Shrine Takeo and Yosano Akiko Tanka inscriptions by Arishima Tanka inscription Location where stone tools and (grinding bowl Rest area by Edano Toyoaki arrowheads were discovered Yanagichaya Tottori Sand Dunes Information Center Camp Ground Yuyama・Tottori Line Prefectural Road Elevation of key locations Sand Pal Tottori 0857-20-2231 Tottori City Cycling Terminal ①The second sand dune ridge (Umanose, or the 0857-29-0800 Horse’s Back): approx. 47m ②The Oasis: approx. 18m Municipal Parking Lot （Hamasaka） ③Stairway entrance to the dunes (near the start Haiku inscription Pear field of the ascent): approx. 54m by Takahama Kyoshi ④Sand dune entrance near the Literary Plaza: approx. 66m All measurements were taken in 2007 Tottori Sand Dunes Entrance to Kodomo-no- Tanegaike Pond Kodomo-no-Kuni Sand Dune Tunnel To Central Tottori City Fumon Umanose Saren Oasis San-in Coast National Park・Requests for visitors to (Wind Ripples) (The Horse’s Back) (sand curtains) the Tottori Sand Dunes These tiny waves on The second ridge of the These beautiful patterns The rain water that falls Please keep the following rules in mind when enjoying the dunes. the sand’s surface dunes is the sand’s resemble bamboo curtains. on the dunes soaks into highest point, and is are a characteristic Grains of sand are blown the earth and seeps from ※No driving onto the dunes with sight at the sand popularly known as ※No unleashed or unattended onto the gentle windward the ground’s surface like dunes. They can be Umanose (the Horse’s slopes of the dunes, where automobiles or motorcycles. pets. a spring. This spot can be seen in the early Back). At an elevation they pile up at the hill’s ※No drawing or writing in the sand. ※No littering. morning, when the of 47m, it is the apex. When the sand buildup observed at the base of ※No camping outside of the perfect vantage point ※No fireworks. wind is blowing and is too great it can lose its the Horse’s Back.. ※No disruptive or disrespectful the sand is dry. from which to view the stability and cascade down designated campgrounds. grandeur of the sand the steep, leeward slope. ※No removing sand. behavior. Origins of the Sand Dunes Chugoku Plant Growth at the Sand Dunes (Dune Vegetation) ①The rocks on Chugoku Mountains have been weathered and become sands, Then, the sands Northwesterly wind are carried into the river by heavy rains. Sendai River ②A large amount of sands are transported to Coastal Current the Sea of Japan by Sendai River. ③Once sands which were swept to offshore Tottori Sand Dunes move Waves Sea of Japan Carex Kobomugi Ohwi Fimbristylis Sericea are deposited on the seabed shallow approach (Japanese sedge, Zoysia Macrostachya Ixeris Repens to land by the flow of the sea. move Northwesterly wind Bloom in late April. Named from In around August, several small Bloom from June to August The number of flowers is decreasing ④Sands by the waves will be launched to the the shape of the ear. Dioecious, ears are gathered to the tip of approx. Stems shaped like an in the middle of summer. Yellow head coast. but, also wearing ear rarely male the stem. White silk hair is upright, and hard and narrow inflorescence flowers about 2 - 3cm and female together are found. growing a lot on stems and leaves open horizontally from its in diameter bloom from April to ⑤Carried to the land being blown by October approx. Geology of the Sand Dunes In Tottori Sand Dunes, you will be able to There is a place where volcanic ash layer is exposed in the Dunes. At observe the volcanic ash layer between the the good ventilation place, sand are sands. The photograph is of a cross- skipped and volcanic ash layer is section dune outcrop seen in the parking exposed. Into a layer of volcanic ash, Calystegia Soldanella Carex Pumila Thunb. Vitex Rotundifolia we can see the pumice named as (Bind-weed, (Dune sedge, cyperaceae (Roundleaf chastetree, Ischaemum Anthephoroides lot of souvenir shop “Sakyuu Union” in the Daisen-Kurayoshi erupted from Tottori Sand Dunes mall. The volcanic ash Mt.Daisen about 55,000 years ago. verbenaceae family): A pink flower similar to morning In around July, a blue-purple flower layer is sandwiched between the sands can These strata are a valuable asset From April to May approx., the In around July, a blue-purple glory is in bloom from May to male spikelets are at the top of flower bloom. A black fruit about bloom. A black fruit about 5 mm in be observed. It is called the new dunes are which tells the history of the Dunes was formed. June approx. Large community the stock, and female spikelets 5mm in diameter has a strong diameter that has a strong aroma, deposited on top of the volcanic ash layer. of these bloom at once is are at the roots. The size of this aroma, is used as herbal is used as herbal medicine, after is smaller than Kouboumugi. Weeding into Grassland at the Sand Dunes From around 1970, it starts to become a serious problem that a dune becomes grassland. For example, the alien plants that should not grow naturally in the sand dunes began to stand out, it is not easy to see the beautiful Fumon(wind ripple) and Saren(sand curtain), by the sand movement is reduced, and it detracts from the beautiful scenery of the original dune. Tottori Prefecture and the city of Tottori have continued to start full-fledged herbicidal activity from 1994. With the development of weeding, we are now regarding its original form dunes. From 2004, we began weeding by volunteer efforts to protect the Glehnia Littoralis Linaria Japonica Wedelia Prostrata Heteropappus Arenarius dunes in cooperation with the citizen is in progress. In 2011, 5900 volunteers have participated. (Asteraceae family): A large number of small dense Pale yellow flowers bloom in Yellow head inflorescence Purple head inflorescence flowers Adopt Program white flowers like cauliflower several branches from August flowers about 2cm in diameter about 3-4cm in diameter bloom bloom from June to July approx. to September approx. The bloom in around July. There is from September to October approx.. In order to establish the activities of the citizen level from the Scattered across the dunes. stems with fleshy fruits similar also a name of a flower wedelia These are seen in some places on efforts of weeding volunteer and be continuous activities, we to the shape of spatula, grow was likened to the wheels. the west side of Tottori Sand have been conducting introduced adopt program, that is the diagonally. Dunes. mechanism for certain areas, responsibility has been given like a foster parents have, At present, the following 11 organizations are participating in this program: Inscriptions around the Sand Dunes Insects lived at the Sand Dunes Tanka Inscription, Tanka Inscription, Tanka Inscription, Monument, Akiko Yosano Toyoaki Edano Kyoshi Takahama May 25, 1930, Akiko Yosano was In 1923, Takeo Arishima was In 1931, Toyoaki Edano In 1932, Kyoshi Takahama Hagenomyia Micans visiting the Tottori Sand Dunes visiting Tottori as a lecturer at launched a tanka magazine presided over haiku magazine Lycosa Ishikariana Chaetodera Laetescripta MacLachlan Dianemobius Csikii with her husband Hiroshi the Free University courses "JYOHMYAKU" that has been "HOTOTOGISU" and his party (Trigonidiidae family) (Wolf Spider family) (Myrmeleontidae family) (Tekkan). This tanka was the sponsored by "Suimyakusya." published today in the city of held a GINKO meeting, which Large spider that lives in mainly Body length is about 15mm. Make a bowl-shaped hole in the A beach cricket commonly requiem poem to her friend, This was a tanka at that time.