Tottori

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Photo: Carampaima, Public domain.
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  • Type: City with 194,000 residents
  • Description: city in Tottori Prefecture, Japan
  • Also known as: Tottori City” and “Tottori-shi
  • Neighbors: , , , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Tottori Prefectural Museum and Tottori Castle.

Museum
The is a museum in Tottori, Japan, dedicated to the nature, history, folklore, and art of . Its permanent collection includes over three thousand items, and the museum also hosts temporary exhibitions.

Castle
was a Japanese castle located in Tottori, in the San'in Region of western Japan. It has been protected by the central government as a National Historic Site since 1957 with the area under protection expanded in 1987.

Museum
The opened in Tottori, Japan, in 2000 and is dedicated to the history of the city.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kokufu.

Suburb
was a town located in , , . As of 2003, the town had an estimated population of 8,629 and a density of 92.39 persons per km2.

Tottori

Latitude
35.4944° or 35° 29′ 40″ north
Longitude
134.2219° or 134° 13′ 19″ east
Population
194,000
Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)
Inception
October 1st, 1889
IATA airport code
TTJ
United Nations Location Code
JP TTJ
Open location code
8Q7PF6VC+QQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 697537844
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1849892
Wiki­data ID
Q200731
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Tottori” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: توتوري، توتوري
  • Arabic: توتوري
  • Armenian: Տոտորի
  • Asturian: Tottori
  • Basque: Tottori
  • Belarusian: Таторы (горад)
  • Belarusian: Таторы
  • Bengali: তত্তোরি
  • Catalan: Tottori
  • Cebuano: Tottori (kapital sa prepektura sa Hapon)
  • Cebuano: Tottori
  • Chechen: Тоттори (гӀала)
  • Chechen: Тоттори
  • Chinese: Tottori-chhī
  • Chinese: 鳥取
  • Chinese: 鳥取市
  • Chinese: 鸟取市
  • Croatian: Toturi
  • Czech: Tottori
  • Danish: Tottori
  • Dutch: Tottori
  • Egyptian Arabic: توتورى
  • Esperanto: Totoro
  • Esperanto: Tottori
  • Estonian: Tottori
  • Finnish: Tottori
  • French: Tottori-shi
  • French: Tottori
  • Galician: Tottori
  • German: Tottori
  • Greek: Τοτόρι
  • Gujarati: ટોટોરી
  • Hakka Chinese: Tottori-sṳ
  • Hebrew: טוטורי
  • Hindi: तोत्तोरी
  • Hungarian: Tottori
  • Indonesian: Tottori, Tottori
  • Indonesian: Tottori
  • Irish: Tottori
  • Italian: Tottori
  • Japanese: Tottori-shi
  • Japanese: とっとりし
  • Japanese: 鳥取
  • Japanese: 鳥取市
  • Kannada: ಟೊಟ್ಟೊರಿ
  • Korean: 도토리 시
  • Korean: 돗토리 시
  • Korean: 돗토리시
  • Latvian: Totori
  • Literary Chinese: 鳥取市
  • Lithuanian: Totoris
  • Lithuanian: Tottori
  • Macedo-Romanian: Tottori
  • Malay: Tottori
  • Marathi: तोतोरी
  • Mazanderani: توتوری
  • Min Nan Chinese: Tottori-chhī
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Tottori
  • Norwegian: Tottori
  • Occitan (post 1500): Tottori
  • Ossetian: Тоттори (сахар)
  • Ossetian: Тоттори
  • Persian: توتوری
  • Polish: Tottori
  • Portuguese: Tottori
  • Romanian: Tottori
  • Russian: Тоттори
  • Sardinian: Tottori
  • Scots: Tottori
  • Serbian: Totori
  • Serbian: Тотори
  • Serbian: 鳥取市
  • Serbo-Croatian: Totori
  • Silesian: Tottori
  • Sindhi: توتوري شهر
  • Sinhala: ටොට්ටෝරි
  • Slovak: Tottori
  • Slovenian: Totori
  • South Azerbaijani: توتوری
  • Spanish: Ciudad de Tottori
  • Spanish: Tottori
  • Swahili: Tottori, Tottori
  • Swahili: Tottori
  • Swedish: Tottori
  • Tagalog: Lungsod ng Tottori
  • Tagalog: Tottori
  • Tajik: Tottori
  • Tajik: Тоттори
  • Tamil: டோட்டோரி
  • Tatar: Тоттори
  • Telugu: టొట్టొరి
  • Thai: ทตโตริ
  • Thai: ทตโตะริ
  • Turkish: Tottori
  • Ukrainian: Окаяма
  • Ukrainian: Тотторі
  • Urdu: توتوری، توتوری
  • Venetian: Tottori
  • Vietnamese: Tottori
  • Waray (Philippines): Tottori, Tottori
  • Waray (Philippines): Tottori
  • Yue Chinese: 鳥取市

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Tottori”. Photo: Carampaima, Public domain.