Leisure / Hobbies Spots in Kochi Area
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- Kami City Art Museum
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- Kochi Kami-shi Tosayamadacho 262-1 Plaza Hachioji 2F
- This art museum is located on the second floor of Plaza Hachioji, to the west of Hachiojigu Shrine adjacent to the Kami City Welfare Center and the Kami City Volunteer Center. It houses about 800 items, including Japanese pictures, oil paintings, prints, ceramics, and sculptures. Five or six special exhibitions and displays of their collection are held annually.
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- RYUGADO MUSEUM
- Leisure / Hobbies
- Kochi Kami-shi Tosayamadacho Sakakawa
- An open-air museum in Ryugado, one of Japan's leading tourist-accessible limestone caves. Exhibits include scientific explanations of the cave's geology and creatures that inhabit the cave, as well as the preserved site and artifacts of ancient cave dwellers. The museum also has academic documents pertaining to the area's natural environment and exhibits covering a range of fields including geology, biology, archaeology, and anthropology.
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- Miyanomae Park
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- Kochi Takaoka-gun Ochicho Ochihei 734-1
- A park famous for its cosmos flowers. Approximately 1.5 million are spread over the confluence of two rivers, attracting crowds of tourist when they're at their peak. They hold a festival during the period with activities like canoeing, fishing for amego salmon, and having fun in the river. There's even cosmos labyrinth you can walk through.
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- Kokuzosan Fruit Land
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- Kochi Takaoka-gun Sakawacho Higashi Kumi 824-3
- A tourist farm on the summit of 674-meter Mt. Kokuzo where you can enjoy the views as well as the tasty fruit. Its observatory looks out over the Togano Plain. You can pick your own pears, apples, and mandarin oranges from early September until late November. The seasons may vary slightly depending on climatic conditions.
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- Tsuchimoto Tourist Orchard
- Leisure / Hobbies
- Kochi Takaoka-gun Sakawacho Futatsuno 1308
- An orchard that sells delicious apples and pears. The popular Niitakanashi pear variety won the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Prize in 2012 and 2014. Various cultivars come into season between mid-August and late November. You can enter the orchard too.
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- Shimanto-cho Okitsu Youth Travel Village, Okitsu Beach
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- Kochi Takaoka-gun Shimantocho Okitsu 2135
- A beautiful beach that has been selected by the Ministry of the Environment as one of Japan's 100 Best Bathing Beaches. The shallow seas make it popular with families. Parasols, floats, and body boards are available for rent. It is right in front of the Okitsu Youth Travel Village and there are ample beach houses and camping facilities.
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- Kubotani Forest Therapy Road
- Leisure / Hobbies
- Kochi Takaoka-gun Yusuharacho Kubotani
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- Tarogawa Park
- Leisure / Hobbies
- Kochi Takaoka-gun Yusuharacho Tarogawa 3799-3
- This park and nature facility has outdoor features like a grass ski slope, cherry blossom viewing area, campground, bird-filled woodland, and the Kitsutsuki Learning Center in the midst of a lush landscape. There are also historic buildings, offering a relaxing time that you won't find in urban life.
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- Godaiyama Park
- Leisure / Hobbies
- Kochi Kochi-shi Godaisan
- A park in Godaisan, located east of Kochi City past the Kokubu River. It has a popular summit lookout with great views of Kochi City and Urado Bay. It's an often-frequented date spot for its splendid night view.
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- Former Yamauchi Residence’s Nagaya Exhibition Hall
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- Kochi Kochi-shi Takajomachi 1-3-35
- This building constructed by the Tosa Domain's 16th feudal lord Yamanouchi Toyonori in 1665. It's a nationally designated Important Cultural Property. A two-story building with 31-meter beams and 4.5-meter crossbeams, it was part of the suburban residence of the feudal lord Yamauchi Yodo in the late Edo period. The villa acted as a guard station for foot soldiers who served as security guards. Modern tenement-style housing on this scale is rarely seen in Japan and is of great value.
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- Shimanto River Wild Bird Nature Park
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- Kochi Shimanto-shi Masaki 1001-1
- A bird park in the Masaki district at the mouth of the Shimanto River. A visit will help you learn about local ecology while observing insects, plants, fish, wild birds, and more. The property has three hides, a 900-meter promenade, the “Inviting Forest” and the “Floating Island.” The surrounding area is an important habitat for birds found in grasslands and wilderness areas, including great reed warblers, fan-tailed warblers, and meadow buntings.
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- Kosanji Shimin no Mori
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- Kochi Shimanto-shi Sakamoto Kawahira Yama 974-1
- A municipal park built around Mt. Kozanji. An ideal place for hiking and forest bathing, its many migratory birds makes it a popular birding spot. The park is dotted with historic sites including Kozanji Temple, with its ties to Kobo Daishi.
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- Ransho-yuhodo Trekking Path
- Leisure / Hobbies
- Kochi Muroto-shi Murotomisakicho
- A 2.6-kilometer walkway around Cape Muroto. Things of interest and historic sites include subtropical plants like Japanese sea figs and spider lilies; Mikurodo cave, where Kukai was said to have reached enlightenment; a bathing pond; an eye-rinsing pond thought to cure eye diseases; and Bishago Iwa, a rock outcrop with a sad legend.
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- Sukumo History Museum
- Leisure / Hobbies
- Kochi Sukumo-shi Chuo 2-7-14 Sukumo Bunkyo Center 3F
- A local history museum showcasing Sukumo City and important figures with ties to it. The museum has accessible exhibits that include models, video, panel displays, and various artifacts. Highlights include the History Exhibition Room with a detailed diorama and beautiful images that reproduce Sukumo's Edo period townscape when it was a flourishing castle town and two-minute videos on themes including important historic materials, important Sukumo’s important figures, and other various Sukumo information.
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- Kizenzan Park
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- Kochi Nagaoka-gun Motoyamacho Motoyama
- Also called Shakunage Park, this prefectural nature park is bordered by the meandering Yoshino River. At the entrance is a statue of the feudal era politician and Confucian scholar Nonaka Kenzan; his mother Akita's grave is inside the park. Shakunage means “rhododendron” in Japanese, and as the name suggests, the sight of them in bloom from mid-April to early May is stunning.
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- Montbell Outdoor Challenge Shikoku Yoshino
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- Kochi Nagaoka-gun Motoyamacho Motoyama 2133-1
- Kochi Prefecture's Motoyama Town is surrounded by mountains and is blessed with the Yoshino, Asemi, and other beautiful rivers. The outdoor supplier Montbell opened their Shikoku headquarters there on July 7th, 2019. Enjoy the outdoors to the fullest with bathing facilities, lodging for groups, a restaurant, bathhouse and a stylish cottage that looks out on the Yoshino River.
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- Kohan Apple Orchards
- Leisure / Hobbies
- Kochi Tosa-gun Tosacho Jizoji 3143
- This apple orchard that cultivates 400 apple trees of ten different varieties over an 8,000 square meter area. From late August to late November, you can enjoy different apples depending on the season. It is also popular with families because you can bring lunch boxes.
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- Dragon Beach
- Leisure / Hobbies
- Kochi Tosa-shi Ryu
- This beach is located on the Yokonami Peninsula, where you can enjoy marine leisure activities. It is very popular especially with families because it is shallow and the waves are calm. When the tide ebbs, tidal pools form on large rocks in the center of the sandy beach, making it an ideal place to observe creatures on the beach. It has free parking, gazebos and bathrooms.
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- Cape Ashizuri Nature Trail
- Leisure / Hobbies
- Kochi Tosashimizu-shi Ashizurimisaki
- This hiking trail is about 2,000 meters long. The surroundings are overgrown with camellia, and the trail can feel like walking through a camellia tunnel. The peak season is from late January through the end of February, when the flowers are in beautiful bloom. You can also find unusual connections to Kobo Daishi and Kongofukuji Temple. Cape Ashizuri is said to have 21 mysterious wonders, and this trail features seven including the “hole to hell” and Daishi no Tsumegaki Ishi, a rock that is said to have been inscribed by Kobo Daishi using his fingernails.
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- Tatsukushi Diving Center
- Leisure / Hobbies
- Kochi Tosashimizu-shi Tatsukushi 3897
- This diving shop is found around southwestern Kochi, including in Tatsukushi, Ashizuri, Otsuki Town, Kashiwajima, and Okinoshima. They offer diving and scuba activities, licensing classes, and snorkeling tours as needed. They also offer banana boating, and private beach stays where you can visit a beach only reachable by boat for a premium beach barbecue.
Kochi Areas
The largest of Shikoku’s prefectures, Kochi is endowed with some of the island’s most exceptional sand beaches lining the Pacific Ocean, which narrows into the Shimanto-gawa, a huge river that stretches 196 kilometers into the prefecture, passing verdant mountains and hosting countless riverside activities. Whether you’re a pilgrim or not, Kochi’s 16 Buddhist temples that make up one leg of the Shikoku Pilgrimage are worth a visit, particularly Chikurin-ji for its five-tier pagoda.
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