Spots in Kami / Konan Area

  • Shoku Kuraichi
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    4.5
    5 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kochi Konan-shi Akaokacho 744-1
    A restaurant with an antique storehouse-like interior that exudes femininity from every corner that’s known as a place of rest and healing. For lunch, their Chirimen Meal Sets with fresh, locally prepared jako (juvenile fish) and Daily Meal Sets come recommended. In the evening it transforms into a Japanese-style pub with carefully selected local sake that tastes great with their fresh appetizers.

    見学した絵金蔵の受付スタッフに紹介してもらいました。絵金蔵より徒歩数分です。二人は昼食のメニュのから揚げ定食とちりめん定食を注文。完食、満足。地元の人も次々来店し、人気店だと納得。

  • Sawa Mochi Chaya
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    4.0
    9 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kochi Konan-shi Yasucho Tei 1468
    A Japanese sweet shop with a history reaching back to 1837. They're famous for their teahouse mochi sweets that got their start during the Edo period when the Yamauchi clan were feudal lords. The sweets features homemade koshian bean paste made from Hokkaido-grown azuki beans inside soft mochi dough made with high-quality domestic mochi rice, giving it an old-fashioned cinnamony taste.

    地元の会社同僚と高知から室戸岬に向かう途中に立寄った。ニッキの香がほのかにする5個入りの大福餅を同僚に買って頂いた。大福餅はちょっと小振りサイズ、ニッキの香、モチモチの皮、程よい甘さの餡子、大変美味しゅうございました。

  • Teiko Movable Bridge
    Travel / Tourism
    Kochi Konan-shi Yasucho Tei Tei Minato Iriguchi
    The Teiko Movable Bridge (officially, the Kochiken Teiko Rinkodoro Kado Bridge) at the entrance of Teiko Port was opened in 2002. It's about 32 meters long and takes about six minutes to open and close. You can only travel over it for about seven hours a day at fixed times, and the schedule is subject to change without notice, so be sure to confirm if it's operating before you go.
  • Yasuragi-ichi Farm Stand
    Shopping
    Kochi Konan-shi Yasucho Chigire 537-90 Roadside Station Yasu Uchi
    A farm stand surrounded by sun, sea, greenery, and sky. It faces the Pacific Ocean about a 45-minute drive east of Kochi City. Yasu-cho is one of Japan's sunnier locations and is famous for its greenhouse grown produce including melons, watermelons, tomatoes, and lots more. Their fresh fruits and vegetables are known for being delicious.
  • Ya-Sea Park
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Kochi Konan-shi Yasucho Chigire 537-90
    A prefectural park with four areas: Picnic, Beach, Park, and Volleyball. Head to the Picnic Area for day camping and barbecues. Gas stoves and canopies are available for rental on a two-hour basis. You need to make reservations by phone at least a day in advance.
  • Kuroshio Onsen Ryoma no Yu
    Accommodations / Hot Spring
    Kochi Konan-shi Noichicho Higashino 1630
    A hot spring bathhouse located in Kochi Kuroshio Hotel, the closest hotel to Kochi Ryoma Airport. It's the area's largest natural hot spring facility and has a sodium-chloride water consistency. The spring is said to have 20 beneficial properties, the most in Kochi Prefecture. They have a large indoor bath, outdoor bath, and sauna, as well as a private family bath available with a reservation. They welcome day-bathers.
  • mongo mongo
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kochi Konan-shi Noichicho Buyoji 5-4
    At this shop one person bakes bread and one makes Western sweets. The popular cafe is great for dessert or a leisurely lunch. They offer take out too. For lunch you can choose between an eggs benedict sandwich or ground meat coconut curry. They offer about 30 kinds of bread and about 15 cake varieties, ranging from classic to seasonal.
  • Heike no Chaya
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    4.0
    6 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kochi Kami-shi Kahokucho Hashikawano 597
    This shop is known for its fragrant soba noodles, handmade daily with domestic buckwheat flour. With lots of soba selections on the menu, their Heike no Chaya Meal Set comes recommended. Dishes include salt-grilled amego salmon, sweet boiled amego, a tempura assortment, and sashimi, all with rice and soup. Their cuisine features lots of ingredients taken from the wild.

    アンパンマンミュージアムに行く途中にたまたま発見して寄りました イチオシしてるカツオの漬け丼がホントに美味しかったです 家族で行ったので、天ぷらとざるそばも一緒に注文しましたが、とても美味しかったです

  • Convenience Okabayashi
    Shopping
    Kochi Kami-shi Kahokucho Birafu 1347-1
    This convenience store also offers a wide selection of handmade cakes and sweets. In addition to chiffon cake, shortbread, chou a la creme, and eclairs, they have tasty and whimsical sweets with indelicate themes.
  • Kami City Art Museum
    Leisure / Hobbies
    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.
  • 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.
  • Tosa Knife Distribution Center
    Shopping
    Kochi Kami-shi Tosayamadacho Kamikaida 109
    This cutlery store has a huge inventory of about 3,000 items that includes kitchen knives for homes and restaurants, garden implements like sickles and pruning saws, machetes, axes, and long handled sickles for forestry work, recreational knives for outdoor use, and more. Book ahead with a group of 10 or more to watch a knife making demonstration.
  • Sakura Bakery
    Shopping
    Kochi Kami-shi Tosayamadacho Hyakkokucho 1-7-26
    A bakery that only uses several varieties of natural yeast. Their homemade bread is slowly fermented, bringing out the inherent flavor of the wheat. Made with carefully selected butter and other ingredients, the additive-free bread is healthy, and delicious.
  • Tosayamada-cho Sunday Market
    Shopping
    Kochi Kami-shi Tosayamadacho Takaramachi 1-3
    This Sunday market is a popular place for the locals to shop and mingle. Stands have everything ranging from fresh picked vegetables to knives, garden shrubs, fruit trees, flower seedlings, traditional inaka sushi, homemade bread, clothing, antiques, and a variety of other goods. The lively market is held every week from 7:00 to 14:00. They hold their big year-end sale on December 30.
  • Nishigawaya Akaoka Former Main Store
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kochi Konan-shi Akaokacho 470
    A famous confection created and sold by an eminent feudal era shop on orders of the Tosa Domain in 1688. Push just as much of the cylindrical bean jelly treat from its sleeve as you want to slice off, keeping your hands clean. The popular item is ideal for those on Shikoku's pilgrimage trail.
  • Treasure House Otoyo
    Travel / Tourism
    Kochi Nagaoka-gun Otoyo Cho Ananai 2210
    An exhibition facility with ogre statues visible from the national highway. Showcasing the Japan’s vintage Showa period (1926-1989), the main building mainly displays items from the mid-1920s and 1930s that might be nostalgic for older Japanese people and interesting for others. The annex has everything from items from the late Showa period to displays on stars from the 1980s.
  • Kajigamori Astronomical Observatory
    Travel / Tourism
    Kochi Nagaoka-gun Otoyo Cho Sagayama 1248-3
    Kajigamori Prefectural Natural Park is at a magnificent 1,400-meter location with the Ishizuchi Mountain Range to the west, Tsurugi Mountain Range to the east, and the Yoshino River flowing below. The observatory with its 60-centimeter reflecting telescope is attached to the Kajigamori cottage. Reservations are required to use the telescope.
  • Otaguchi Cafe
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    4.0
    2 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kochi Nagaoka-gun Otoyo Cho Terauchi 236-3
    This cozy cafe has a warm, homemade feel when viewed from the outside or sitting within. The fare is all carefully handmade one meal at a time with local ingredients. They have lots of drinks available too, including goishi-cha milk made with a local Otoyo-cho fermented tea. Their homemade cakes are popular too. You can purchase whole cakes if you order in advance.

    If you come to Otaguchi in Otoyo you should go and see Otaguchi Café! There are many delicious foods. For example lunch sets, deer burger, cake, and drinks like coffee, juice and tea. I liked their...

  • Former Tajikawa Bansho Shoin
    Travel / Tourism
    Kochi Nagaoka-gun Otoyo Cho Tajikawashimomyo 28
    The Nihon Koki, a classic Japanese history text, says Tajikawa post station was established in 797, meaning this former bansho guardhouse has a long history. It was particularly important as a headquarters for troops during the feudal period and was considered one of Tosa's three main guardhouses along with Iwasa kuchi-bansho and Ikegawa kuchi-bansho. The current building was taken over by the local municipality in 1973 and was designated a national Important Cultural Property with its present name in 1974.
  • Kizenzan Park
    Leisure / Hobbies
    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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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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