In addition, the two branches of the Arao clan, who served as hereditary karō of the clan and castellans of Yonago Castle (15,000 koku) and Kurayoshi Jin'ya (12,000 koku) both had kokudaka equivalents to that of daimyō.

During his 16 year tenure, he built the foundations of the castle town of Tottori.

Normally, when a daimyō entered Edo Castle, he had to leave his sword with a retainer in front of the entrance.

During the Bakumatsu period, the 12th daimyō, Ikeda Yoshinori, was the older brother of the 15th Shogun, Tokugawa Yoshinobu and had a difficult position between loyalty to the shogunate and the growing forces for the Meiji restoration.

In the following year, when Chōshū Domain, with which he had a close relationship, was defeated in the Kinmon Incident and was declared enemy of the crown, he began to distance himself from politics, but in the Battle of Toba-Fushimi in 1868 and the Boshin War, he was on the side of the Meiji government army.

The domain became part of Tottori Prefecture with the abolition of the han system in 1871.

Ikeda Terutomo, the 15th chieftain of the clan, was made a marquis in the kazoku peerage in 1884.

As with most domains in the han system, Tottori Domain consisted of several discontinuous territories calculated to provide the assigned kokudaka, based on periodic cadastral surveys and projected agricultural yields.