{{infobox|The White Rabbit of Inaba|Just offshore at Hakuto beach, Tottori's most famous, is a small island that is part of local folktale. The story goes that a rabbit was trapped on the island longing to return to his family on the mainland. He tricked a family of sharks into lining up so he can hop on their backs to the shore, but as he reached the last shark he sneered about having deceived them, and the shark tore off all the rabbit's fur. Some cruel god brothers came along and told the rabbit he would be cured if he bathed in the sea, but the salt stung painfully, and he was not cured. The youngest brother, Okuninushi no Mikoto, came along, felt sorry for the crying rabbit, and told him to bathe in fresh water and dry off with cattails. The rabbit was cured and predicted that the god would become the ruler of the Inaba region, which came true some time later. Reminders of this story abound in the Tottori area, and you will see the white rabbit on everything from bridges to sewer grates to flower arrangements, sometimes accompanied by a rather fat god carrying a big sack. In fact, the name of that beach, Hakuto, means "white rabbit."}}Tottori City
http://www.city.tottori.tottori.jp/top/multilang/english/sightseeing/kanko_en.htm serves as industrial center of Tottori prefecture, with several big electronics factories such as Sanyo. The fishing industry here is quite lively. Tottori is also home to Tottori University and another agricultural university. These two schools are important sites for agricultural research, and attract agricultural students from other parts of Japan, as well as a small number of foreign students. Although the number of foreign residents in Tottori is quite low, its 250,000 locals are certainly friendly. http://wikitravel.org/en/Tottori