Mizuki Shigeru Road - A city of Ghosts (Yokai)

How many people want to visit Tottori prefecture? Even Japanese don't, or maybe can't because of the difficulty of access from big cities such as Tokyo and its scarcity of attractions. Its most famous attraction is definitely the desert hill called Tottori Sakyu. Another famous one might be ...pears? I didn't expect much from Tottori before getting there.

Actually, I found that Tottori had a good spot to visit, called Sakai-minato city. There seem to be two types of charms in the city. One is Shigeru Mizuki (maybe the best known manga artist in Japan), the other seafood. He was born in Sakai-minato and his well known manga is "Ge Ge Ge No Kitaro", focusing on the life of ghosts (Yokai), so the particular parts of the city like Mizuki Shigeru Road are decorated with creepy Yokai characters.

↑At Yonago Station.

↑To get to Sakai-minato station, you can get on the special train wrapped by the characters of his manga.

↑Yokai shaped breads !!! They don't taste bad.

↑Medama-oyaji (one of its main characters).

↑A taxi with Medama-oyaji on top. Funny !!!

↑The person sitting in the center of the desk is Shigeru Mizuki.

↑Sakai-minato is also famous for seafood. (minato means port in Japanese) The city is one of the main ports of fish catches especially for crabs and tuna. Ummm, YUMMY!!!

Mizuki Shigeru Road (Sakai-Minato) http://www.sakaiminato.net/foreign/en/ (English)