Matsue, Japan CNN —San’in isn’t the Japan most travelers picture on their first visit to the country.
Japan’s famous high-speed rail system does not pass through San’in, which leaves it off many travelers’ radars altogether.
The San’in region consists of Japan’s two least populous prefectures, Shimane and Tottori, which sit between the Sea of Japan and the northern side of the country’s Chukogu mountains.
“The Kojiki,” an important eighth-century Shinto text, depicts the San’in region as an annual gathering place for the gods.
The region is also the backdrop to Japan’s only desert, a 10-mile cluster of rolling sand beside the Sea of Japan known as the Tottori Dunes.
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