Sightseeing in Shimane

Making the most of our time in Shimane, we headed for some of the most exciting attractions on offer - a lighthouse at Hino-Misaki and the Nima Sand Museum, Hamada beach and then the five storey pagoda in Yamaguchi City. The weather was beautiful and we had a relaxing day driving down the coast.


Outside the sand museum we stumbled across the biggest slide in the history of man!! It was huge!! but unfortunately not as fun as it looks.The Nima Sand Museum boasts the world's largest sand timer. At 5m long it takes exactly a whole year for every grain of sand to drop. On December 31st at midnight the timer is flipped. Stirling could not control himself with the fine array of sand timers.