The city is known for the oldest hot spring house,Dogo onsen.
But,let me skip that,and I'll introduce the places people usually miss:)

what is he doing here?

Tobe zoo

It's pretty big zoo in west Japan. There is a famous polar bear raised by a staff. The polar bear is called "peace." It's pretty rare that a polar bear raised by a human. I heard there are some in the world, but most of them were dead. There were some TV documentary about "peace" Now he is a symbol of tobe zoo.

so, that's why a poor guy(or girl?) in "peace"'s full-body suit was handing out the ads of tobe zoo with the temperature 30 degree celsius. I took this pic on August.

Guess what?
This is a station.

Shimonada station

This station is famous within train fans. This is the closest train station to the sea in Japan, and it is famous for beautiful sunset.