{"id":60732,"date":"2025-09-08T23:02:44","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T21:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=60732"},"modified":"2025-09-21T23:22:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T21:22:00","slug":"the-hidden-waterfalls-and-shrines-in-the-beautiful-forests-of-eastern-tottori-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/09\/08\/the-hidden-waterfalls-and-shrines-in-the-beautiful-forests-of-eastern-tottori-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"The hidden waterfalls and shrines in the beautiful forests of eastern Tottori, Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not long ago, I had an image of Japan as a country of big cities and hardly any places to enjoy peace and quiet.<\/p>\n

The hard climb to Otayama, on the island of Hokkaido, the most dangerous shrine in Japan<\/a><\/rel>
\nThe intrepid path that children took to a now abandoned school in Japan<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n

However, 67% of Japan's land area is forested<\/strong>. If that's not enough, just consider that in Spain it's 37%, in Italy it's 36.7%, in France it's 31.7%, and in the United States it's 8.5%. In Tottori Prefecture, about 500 km west of Tokyo, forests account for 45% of its land area.<\/strong> The coastal city of Tottori, the capital of the prefecture, has a population of 189,000 and boasts a beautiful green landscape surrounded by mountains to the west, south, and east.<\/p>\n

On August 22nd, the YouTube channel Watatabi (\u308f\u305f\u65c5)<\/a>, which I highly recommend subscribing to (it has some excellent reports on Japan), published a video touring some of the forests in the eastern part of that prefecture<\/strong>. The video shows some waterfalls and Shinto shrines hidden in these forests. If you want to take a quiet walk through nature without leaving home<\/strong>, this video is an excellent option (the video is in Japanese; you can activate the automatic English subtitles in the bottom bar of the player):<\/p>\n