Local souvenir tip: our brains are scrambled after finding eggs cooked in the Tottori sand dunes

Local souvenir tip: our brains are scrambled after finding eggs cooked in the Tottori sand dunes

Our Tottori-born reporter buys some “sand eggs” cooked at insanely high temperatures to determine just how egg-citing they are. Our Japanese-language reporter Ikuna Kamezawa now lives in Tokyo, but she actually spent the first 19 years of her life in Tottori, Japan’s least populated prefecture. When she recently went home to see her parents for the Obon holiday, she paid a visit to a local tourist attraction that she hadn’t been to in a while–th…