Trip to the World of Japanese Mythology

　　Japan is an unbelievable nation. Imagine that direct descendant of Romulus and Remus, who are said to have been raised by wolves and founded Rome in Roman mythology, and a lineal one of Zeus, who appears in Greek mythology, are the present emperors of Italy and Greece respectively. Isn't it incredible? Japan's Ten-noh is such a being, the genuine descendant of the founder of Japan, Jinmu Ten-noh. The lineage has been linked without any interval. For your information, the foundation of Rome, Greece and Japan was roughly in the same period, 7th century BC. The other day, an attractive trip plan was put together by my friend, traveling to the places that appear in Japanese mythology. We set out for an isolated mountainous area in Shimane Prefecture which has the legend of the monster, "Yamata no Orochi". The detail of the story is written here(link).
　　Naturally, we dropped in at several tourist spots on the way. One of the group members was familiar with Shimane and the adjacent Tottori Prefectures and lead us to nice places. I think you can enjoy my pictures in this and following entries.
　　In recent years there is a funny move of local airports in Japan. Several small airports, which are suffering from the decrease of passengers, have tended to name themselves after their local characteristics for promotional measures. Tottori Prefecture is the birthplace of a noted manga artist, who created dozens of yokai, which are like a goblin, fairy, spirit or something like that, and named its airport as Yonago Kitaro Airport. Kitaro is the main character of yokai's stories and Kitaro is mounting the plane in the pictures.

(Vocabulary)
promotional measures 振興策