Tottori

For Dad's last weekend in Japan, we first went to Matsue and then on to Tottori, which is about 2 hours north of Okayama on the Japan Sea.
Tottori is famous throughout Japan for its sand dunes, which were pretty nice.



Tottori is very popular with Japanese tourists, and there are men at the dunes with camels that you can either ride or pose on for pictures. It's really popular for the Japanese to sit on the camel with the little Middle Eastern hat (I don't know what they're called) and pretend they're Lawrence of Arabia. I think it was about $20 for a short ride or $5 to sit on it for a picture.
In the picture below, you can see a rack with what I think are cuttlefish (a type of squid) on it. It was in the sun spinning very quickly to dry them. It really stunk! In the souvenir shop you could even buy squid-flavoured ice cream. No, I did not try it.