The Sand Museum

The Tottori Sand Dunes are sand rises situated close to the city of Tottori in Tottori Prefecture, Japan. They structure the main vast ridge framework more than 30 km² in Japan. The dunes were made by residue stores conveyed from the Chugoku Mountains by the Sendai River into the Sea of Japan. Ocean flows and wind help bring the sand from the base up onto the shore, where the breeze always revamps their shape.

The ridges have existed for more than 100,000 years, yet the region of the rises has been consistently diminishing because of an administration reforestation program following World War II. Moreover, solid hindrances raised to secure the coast the piece of Sanin Kaigan National Park from torrents have upset the flows in charge of conveying the sand to shore. Experts have embraced measures to stop the shrinkage of the ridges, incompletely on the grounds that they draw in a lot of the travel industry to the area.