Muroto

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• Roadside Station Kira Messe Muroto

  3.5

  54 Reviews

  Kochi Pref. Muroto City Kiragawacho Hei 890-11

  This roadside station is located on the side of National Route 55 in Hei Kiragawa-cho, Muroto City. Its restaurant offers set meals, donburi (rice bowls), and other dishes made with ingredients including local fish, the local fruits and vegetable, and Koshihikari rice grown in Kiragawa-cho. It also offers as a selection of whale dishes. The facility also features a market that offers products such as fresh produce, fresh fish, and processed products. At the Kujirakan whale museum, visitors can see museum exhibits on Muroto’s whaling tradition and also experience entertaining VR and AR content.

• Cape Muroto

  Kouchi Pref. Murotoshi Murotomisakichou

  Cape Muroto has been selected as one of Japan’s best 100 coastal spots. It is a beautiful scenic spot where visitors can see the deep blue ocean, and a white lighthouse stands at the very tip of the cape.

• Muroto Dolphins Center

  4.5

  34 Reviews

  Kouchi Pref. Murotoshi Murotomisakichou 6810-162

  Located within Murotozaki fishing port, the Muroto Dolphin Center is a dolphin care facility where you can experience dolphins up close. You get the opportunity to touch them, swim with them or try training them—there are many fun programs available. There are also special programs designed for children with developmental disorders such as autism to encourage them with sense of achievement. A facility for all to enjoy, from kids to adults, families and groups.

• Kiragawa Historic Streets

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  31 Reviews

  Kouchi Pref. Muroto-shi Kiragawacho Ko 2200-1

  Kiragawa-cho, Muroto City is a neighborhood that has retained its Meiji era townscape. Lined with merchant houses, storehouses, and other period buildings, it was the first district in Kochi Prefecture to be designated as a National Important Preservation Districts for Groups of Traditional Buildings. The district is notable for its plaster walls, “mizukiri” drainage tiles, and its “ishiguro,” stone masonry outer walls built to protect homes from typhoons.

• Muroto Kaiyo Shinsosui Spa – Searest Muroto

  4.5

  12 Reviews

  Cape Muroto Cape Muroto City, Kochi Prefecture 3795-1

  Searest Muroto, located on the prominence of Cape Muroto, is a health-improvement center that makes use of deep seawater from Muroto Sea. It is fully outfitted with a warm-water pool, outdoor baths, foot baths, and Finnish saunas. You can do some aquatic stretching and aquatic exercise all while taking in the view of the sea. Deep sea water offers greater buoyancy than pure water, so you can expect better results from your aquatic exercise. There is an adjacent restaurant that uses local Kochi ingredients here too. Sundays offer an all-you-can-eat option.

• Cape Muroto Lighthouse

  Kouchi Pref. Murotoshi Murotomisakichou

  This lighthouse is the symbol of Cape Muroto, which juts out into the deep-blue sea. The contrast between the chalk-white lighthouse and the vast ocean expanse is gorgeous, making it a popular spot for taking in the view. The lens has a diameter of 2.6 meters making it one of the largest in Japan. Every year on the Sundays before and after November 1st, a “Lighthouse Festival” is held and the interior is opened to the public.

• Kongochoji Temple

  3.0

  1 Reviews

  Kouchi Pref. Murotoshi Moto Otsu 523

  This temple is 26th of the 88 sacred places on the Shikoku Pilgrimage. It is said that Kobo Daishi made the Bhaisajyaguru at the behest of Emperor Heizei and the temple was established with this at the principal object of worship. It was originally a temple that did not allow women therefore they had to worship at the women’s temple that had been built around four kilometers away. It has several Buddhist statues including the wooden seated statue of Amitabha stored in the repository and which have been designated as Nationally Important Cultural Properties. There is a large red pot called the Ichiryu Manbai Pot and it is said Kobo Daishi saved the people from starvation by cooking rice in the pot and multiplying it by 10,000.

• Murotozan Myojoin Hotsumisakiji Temple

  4.5

  4 Reviews

  Kouchi Pref. Murotoshi Murotomisakichou 4058-1

  This temple is located in Muroto-Anan Kaigan Quasi-National Park in Murotomisaki-cho, Muroto City. The 24th of the 88 temples on the Shikoku Pilgrimage, it was the first sacred site? in Kochi Prefecture. The temple is sometimes called Higash-dera (east temple) because of its juxtaposition with Kongochoji, also known as Nishi-dera (west temple), which is located on the western side of Murotomisaki Cape and is the 26th temple on the pilgrimage. The temple enshrines a number of Buddhist images that are nationally-designated Important Cultural Properties including the stone statue of Nyoirin Kannon sitting in half lotus position, the wooden seated statue of Yakushi Nyorai, and the wooden standing statue of the bodhisattvas Candraprabha.

• Roadside Station Kiramesse Muroto Whale Museum

  4.5

  4 Reviews

  Kochi Muroto-shi Kiragawacho Hei 890-11

  A whaling museum at Roadside Station Kiramesse Muroto. The interactive museum uses digital displays to showcase Muroto and its history with whaling, making it a fun place to learn for kids and adults alike. The varied exhibits and facilities include virtual reality headsets that let you feel what it was like on a traditional boat, the “Deck AR” lookout, and a room for workshops.