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The Japan News/Yomiuri
The Japan News/Yomiuri
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Jun Onoda / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writer

Tottori promotes sand dunes to attract lunar companies

A lunar experience event is held at the Tottori Sand Dunes last October. (Credit: The Yomiuri Shimbun)

A research base for lunar exploration is taking shape at the Tottori Sand Dunes, a popular tourist destination in Tottori Prefecture with an environment said to be similar to the surface of the moon.

Lunar experience tours utilizing augmented reality technology were launched at the dunes last November, and the prefectural government is eager to attract other space-related companies and research institutes in the future.

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