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Kochi’s Sunday Market

Kochi’s Sunday Market

Spreading for about 1 kilometer along Otesuji in the center of Kochi City, "Kochi's Sunday Market" is one of Japan's largest traditional open-air street markets, boasting a distinguished history that has never once ceased for over 300 years since Genroku 3 (1690). When Sunday arrives, more than 300 unique stalls line up orderly, packed with freshly harvested local vegetables, southern subtropical fruits, traditional forged cutlery, and exquisite local street food delicacies like the famous "Imo-ten" sweet potato tempura. The greatest charm is the warm local culture where citizens and travelers casually enjoy conversations within a home-like, highly energetic space. Strolling...

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Otoyo Town

Located in the northeastern part of Kochi Prefecture along the borders with Ehime and Tokushima, "Otoyo Town" is a mountain town full of outdoor thrills and mystical histories, embraced by rugged Shikoku Mountains and the pure stream of the grand Yoshino River. The Yoshino River area flowing through Otoyo Town is globally celebrated as a mecca for fierce, world-class rafting and kayaking, drawing adventure-loving hikers and paddlers worldwide. Furthermore, the town houses the mystical "Sugi no Osugi," a giant tree ancient structure exceeding 3,000 years of age designated as a National Special Natural Monument, allowing you to experience the earth's...

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Okawa Village

Located in the northernmost part of Kochi Prefecture within a mountain valley of the grand Shikoku Mountains, "Okawa Village" is globally known as the "municipality with the absolute lowest population in Japan" excluding remote islands, standing as an idyllic, beautiful ultimate hideaway Satoyama village. Situated upstream of Lake Sameura—boasting western Japan's premier water storage, deep forests occupy about 90% of the village. An overwhelming silence completely unrelated to city hustle expands throughout, where an untouched, natural warm Japanese country living breathes deeply. Branded high-class gastronomy such as phantom "Okawa Kuroushi" wagyu beef and highly fragrant Okawa yuzu can be enjoyed,...

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Otsuki Outdoor Field KASHINISHI

Otsuki Outdoor Field KASHINISHI

Located in the Seikai district of Otsuki Town, "Otsuki Outdoor Field KASHINISHI" (formerly Kashinishi Camp Site) is a vast integrated outdoor resort where the grand Pacific Ocean's beautiful emerald green sea and rich green nature comfortably merge. Standing adjacent to the beautiful Kashinishi Coast, comfortable camp sites and stylish cottages are fully equipped, providing the ultimate environment for international backpackers and family groups to leisurely enjoy southern island times. The beach right before your eyes boasts an outstanding transparency, serving as a mecca for snorkeling and sea kayaking where you can observe beautiful coral reefs and colorful tropical fish just...

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Odo Coast

Located in Otsuki Town, "Odo Coast" is one of Shikoku's premier dynamic coastal scenic destinations, where sheer granite precipice cliffs exceeding 100 meters in altitude continue endlessly for several kilometers, uniquely carved out by grand Pacific Ocean rough waves. The contrast woven by the endlessly transparent sea shimmering from emerald green to ultramarine blue and giant white rock faces creates a breathtaking spectacular view, standing as a sacred destination drawing rock climbers and adventurers worldwide. Walking paths and the "Odomayama Observatory" are beautifully maintained, allowing for a trekking experience while feeling pleasant sea breezes. It is a remote edge power...

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Otsuki Town

Located at the southwestern tip of Kochi Prefecture, "Otsuki Town" is an attractive coastal city facing the grand Pacific Ocean and the beautiful rias coastline of the Uwa Sea, rich in dynamic great nature and premier ocean resorts. The greatest highlight is "Kashiwajima Island," a beautiful sea boasting an overwhelmingly high transparency where boats look as if floating in mid-air, drawing active travelers worldwide as one of Japan's premier sacred spots for diving and snorkeling. Furthermore, it features the Odo Coast where ruggedly beautiful precipice cliffs continue endlessly and outdoor thrills at the Ryugahama Camp Site, fully packed with spots...

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Kuwanokawa Torii Cedar

Kuwanokawa Torii Cedar

Sequestered hiddenly within the deep mountain valleys of the Kuwanokawa area in Tsuno Town, "Kuwanokawa Torii Cedar" is an underground secret power spot where great nature's structural life force and traditional Japanese faith beautifully merge, surrounding visitors in a mystical primitive forest silence. Designated as a National Natural Monument, this pair of giant cedar ancient trees boasts an age of several hundred years, whose roots miraculously combined naturally at the base while horizontal branches above created a beautiful, perfect H-shape looking exactly like a Shinto shrine "Torii" gate. The moment you step inside, you are completely wrapped in an overwhelming...

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Kochi Ryoma Airport

Kochi Ryoma Airport

Located in Nankoku City, "Kochi Ryoma Airport" is the lively aerial gateway welcoming your travel's beginning and ending across south-land Tosa. Bearing the name of Sakamoto Ryoma—the great hero of the late Edo period Kochi proudly presents to the world—which is an extremely rare feature for a Japanese airport, a dignified life-sized statue of Ryoma and dynamic displays conveying Kochi's grand great nature and the dynamic energy of the traditional "Yosakoi Festival" greet travelers the moment they arrive, warmly enveloping them in Tosa's hot passion. Direct-sales markets and restaurants inside the airport provide substantial options to enjoy famous seared bonito...

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Maehama Bunker Group

Maehama Bunker Group

Standing proudly within the idyllic rural farmlands near the coastline of Nankoku City, the "Maehama Bunker Group" (Maehama Entai-gun) is the remains of heavy concrete dome-shaped military bunkers (hangars) constructed during the turbulent end of World War II to protect Japanese fighter planes from foreign aerial attacks and vessel bombardments. Currently, 7 bunkers of various sizes are carefully preserved in their ancient structural appearances amidst vast green agricultural fields, with their unique, heavy ruin beauty thoroughly captivating history fans and photographers worldwide. Strong traces of intense hand-construction by local youths and residents using limited resources during wartime remain on the...

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Nankoku City

Located adjacent to the eastern side of Kochi City, "Nankoku City" is a history-emotion rich, lively destination spreading with idyllic rural landscapes and beautiful coastal lines, housing "Kochi Ryoma Airport"—the aerial gateway of Kochi Prefecture. Cradling the "Okoh Castle Ruins," which once served as the military base for Chosokabe Motochika, a master commander of the Sengoku period, it conveys historic samurai romance to this day. Furthermore, along the coastline overlooking the Kuroshio Current of the Pacific Ocean stands the "Maehama Bunker Group," a heavy concrete war legacy constructed during World War II, serving as a highly popular landmark among international...

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Shimanto Town

Shimanto Town, located in the southwestern part of Kochi Prefecture, expands across the mid-stream areas of the "Shimanto River"—termed Japan's last pristine stream—standing as a popular destination rich in outdoor adventures and cultural aesthetics of sea, mountain, and river blessings. Beyond enjoying canoeing, rafting, and cycling along the river, it houses "Iwamoto-ji Temple"—the 37th temple of the Shikoku Pilgrimage, globally famous for its pop-art ceiling paintings inside the main hall, comfortably intersecting traditional Buddhist culture and cutting-edge contemporary art. Being a treasure trove of gastronomy yielding branded rice, fresh sweetfish, river shrimp, and specialty juicy yuzu and pork, it is...

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Wakai Chinka-bashi Bridge

Wakai Chinka-bashi Bridge

Wakai Chinka-bashi Bridge, spanning the upstream area of the Shimanto River inside Shimanto Town, is a travel-romance rich hidden spectacular scenic sinking bridge known to those in the know, beautifully harmonizing with untouched, idyllic mountain village landscapes and pure river flows. Constructed without railings (handrails) designed to sink into the river during floods uniquely along the Shimanto River, this bridge completely integrates with surrounding lush green beautiful mountains, and walking across provides a top-tier sense of openness as if strolling atop the water surface. Comparing to famous sinking bridges downstream, it features relatively fewer tourists, standing as a supreme hidden...

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Hirome Market

Located in the center of Kochi City near Kochi Castle, "Hirome Market" is the ultimate indoor gourmet sanctuary where world food lovers gather, condensing southern Tosa's overwhelming food culture and lively enthusiastic air. Inside the facility, more than 60 unique stalls, restaurants, and souvenir shops crowd together, allowing you to observe up close the famous "Katsuo no Tataki" being masterfully seared over roaring straw flames. The greatest charm is the unique warm banqueting culture (Okyaku culture) where local citizens and travelers sit together at vast communal tables to enjoy alcohol and conversations starting from midday. The home-like, highly energetic space...

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Chikurin-ji Temple

Chikurin-ji Temple

Enshrined atop the sacred Mt. Godai in Kochi City, "Chikurin-ji Temple" was founded in Janki 1 (724) under the imperial decree of Emperor Shomu, serving as the 31st temple of the Shikoku八十八箇所 Pilgrimage and deeply revered with a distinguished history as the "Temple of Learning." Stepping inside the grounds, a beautiful green moss garden, heavy wooden temple halls designated as National Important Cultural Properties, and a soaring pure-red "Five-Story Pagoda" welcome you, enveloping visitors in an overwhelming solemnity and Zen silence. The treasure house exhibits numerous authentic ancient Buddhist statues from the Heian to Kamakura periods close up, letting you...

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The Garden of Claude Monet Marmottan in Kitagawa Village

The Garden of Claude Monet Marmottan in Kitagawa Village

Nestled within the rich great nature of Kitagawa Village, "The Garden of Claude Monet Marmottan in Kitagawa Village" is a miracle artistic resort garden which is the only place globally officially permitted to replicate the Giverny gardens loved by the French impressionist master Claude Monet, creating numerous masterpieces. Within the painting-like garden where light and water intertwine, beautiful seasonal flowers bloom as if jumping out from Monet's canvas, and from early summer to autumn, the authentic "Blue Water Lilies" dreamed of by Monet beautifully bloom inside the ponds. Its overwhelmingly beautiful color panorama is highly photogenic, thoroughly captivating art fans...

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Ryugado Cave

Ryugado Cave in Kami City is counted among Japan's top three limestone caves and designated as a National Natural Monument, standing as a magnificent underground art space created over an immense timeline of about 175 million years. Totaling about 4 kilometers with about 1 kilometer open as a general sightseeing route, its historical art spaces are beautifully produced via fantastical cutting-edge LED light-ups and projection mapping acoustics, completely overwhelming international tourists. Furthermore, an authentic "Adventure Course" advancing through narrow rock gaps using just helmets and flashlights alongside a navigator is highly popular. Cradling world-rare historical legacies like the "God's Vessel"—a...

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Seaside Gallery (Irino Beach)

Seaside Gallery (Irino Beach)

Located in Kuroshio Town, the "Seaside Gallery (Irino Beach)" is a highly creative, globally focused outdoor art project that completely captures international artistic and nature-loving travelers, treating the vast 4-kilometer white sand coastline of "Irino Beach" itself as a giant museum. Entirely lacking buildings, it operates under the unique concept that "the beautiful sand beach, the Pacific Ocean, and the blowing sea breezes are all precious exhibits." Every spring, the "T-Shirt Art Exhibition" is held, where countless T-shirts printed with photographs and illustrations collected from worldwide are dried using stakes on the sand beach. The sight of white T-shirts dancing...

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Tosa Reihoku Area

Tosa Reihoku Area

Located in the northern part of Kochi Prefecture, the "Tosa Reihoku Area" consists of Motoyama Town, Tosa Town, Okawa Village, and Otoyo Town, standing as the ultimate mountain resort embraced by rugged Shikoku Mountains and the pure stream of the Yoshino River. Renowned globally as a sacred destination for authentic outdoor activities such as canoeing and SUP at Lake Sameura—western Japan's largest water reservoir—and fierce, world-class rafting along the Yoshino River, it thoroughly captivates adventure lovers worldwide. It also features magnificent gastronomic options like the "Terraced Fields in the Sky" landscape of Aikawa and Yoshinobu, alongside phantom branded "Tosa Akaushi"...

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Tosa City

Fronting the Pacific Ocean and the mouth of the Niyodo River, "Tosa City" is a lively southern coastal city where rich ocean blessings and idyllic pristine stream landscapes comfortably merge. The "Yokonami Kuroshio Line" driving course running along the coast is celebrated as one of Shikoku's premier spectacular scenic drive and cycling routes where you can look down at the rough Pacific Ocean panorama and the calm Uranouchi Bay simultaneously, strongly drawing international travelers. Furthermore, it houses "Seiryuji Temple," the 36th temple of the Shikoku Pilgrimage boasting about 1,200 years of history, allowing visitors to experience spiritual history and culture...

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Ino Town

Adjacent to Kochi City, "Ino Town" is a beautiful town located in the mid-stream area of the miracle pure stream Niyodo River, where rich great nature and traditional culture live deeply. It is globally known as the birth land of "Tosa Washi," a top-grade traditional Japanese paper crafted since ancient times, praised as "Kagerou's wings" due to its incredible thinness and sturdiness. At the "Ino Town Paper Museum," you can not only observe the highly advanced skills of craftsmen but also actually enjoy traditional paper-making experiences by yourself, which is immensely popular among international tourists. Also cradling the mystical waterfall...

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Niyodogawa Town

Niyodogawa Town

Located in the northwestern part of Kochi Prefecture along the border with Ehime, "Niyodogawa Town" is a beautiful town wrapped in the blessings of rich great nature and pure streams, with forests occupying about 90% of the town, praised as the hometown of "Niyodo Blue." Housing Japan's premier canyon beauties like "Anui Gorge" and "Nakatsu Gorge," the world-class canyoning and hiking experienced within its untouched, primitive nature thoroughly captivate international travelers seeking adventures. Additionally, beautiful tea plantations of specialty "Tosa tea" color the mountainsides alongside original Japanese landscapes of idyllic terraced fields remaining as they were. Blown by refreshing mountain...

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Ochi Town

Ochi Town, located in the mid-western part of Kochi Prefecture, is an outdoor sacred destination rich in untouched Japanese original landscapes, embraced by the pure stream of the beautiful Niyodo River and the rugged yet rich Shikoku Mountains. Housing "Mt. Yokokura," a botanical sanctuary deeply loved by world-class botanist Dr. Tomitaro Makino where precious fossils from about 400 million years ago are discovered, and the mystical "Hijiri Shrine" standing along a sheer vertical cliff, its hand-constructed dynamic natural environments and mountain faith history thoroughly captivate international travelers. Furthermore, it serves with high convenience as a base for camping, canoeing, and...

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Hidaka Village

Located about 30 minutes via car from Kochi City, "Hidaka Village" is a beautiful village where rich great nature and idyllic Satoyama landscapes comfortably merge along the flow of the miracle pure stream Niyodo River. The top entertainment of Hidaka Village is the caving experience at "Saruda Cave," an authentic limestone cave exploration advancing through a pitch-black underground world lacking any lights with just a helmet, thoroughly captivating international active travelers seeking genuine adventures. Furthermore, unique local gastronomy such as the "Omurice Street" luxuriously utilizing fresh tomatoes grown inside the village is highly popular. Enjoying canoeing and SUP along the...

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Uryu Falls

Located at the deepest area of Nakatsu Gorge, "Uryu Falls" is a dynamic masterpiece waterfall full of overwhelming life force, rushing down with intense water sprays and thunderous roars from a narrow gap of sheer vertical cliffs over a drop of about 20 meters. Its wild yet beautiful water flow invoking a silhouette of a dragon ascending to heaven is truly a magnificent artwork created by great nature. The area around the waterfall basin is filled with an abundant cushion of negative ions and crisp, cold air where outstandingly transparent "Niyodo Blue" water spreads, wrapping visitors in a deep emotion...

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