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Kochi prefectural Makino botanical garden

The overall botanical garden where Japan flooded with Dr. Makino's vegetable world is eminent

Botanist from Kochi-ken and Dr. Tomitaro Makino. It's famous even that it was Japanese father of vegetable taxonomy and main character's model of a historical origin and a continuous television novel of NHK "An orchid, oh, oh.". "Kochi prefectural Makino botanical garden" commemorated such Dr. Makino's job performance, and opened in 1958 (1958).

Wild vegetation on Makino doctoral relation is colored by more than 3000 kinds of plant in about 8 ha of vast park. I'm particular about landscaping and reproduce the environment that a plant grows in the nature actually. There are also outdoor planting area, Restaurant in addition to a greenhouse and museum shop.

Rest and the spot you can have are also enriched in the vast park.

The route of about 1.5 km of full length where you can go around in the park in 1 hour and about 30 minutes is recommended to the person who visits for the first time. First, it's to a pavilion with Experience type display via a main building of "Tomitaro Makino museum" and the estimated estimated square" where a plant can be enjoyed by the five senses with the "Makino library (general closure)" etc. in which Dr. Makino's libraries and momento kinds are kept. I walk along the contact way various plants color, a tropical plant, it's met, when going around the "vegetable study exchange center" which can visit a greenhouse and also a laboratory, it's possible to be flooded with the vegetable world to the hilt.

There is also a square where you can open a leisure seat and eat and drink, and it's also fun I feel like going to a picnic and to visit.

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The museum shop in "vegetable study exchange center" which opened in 2023 has complete set of Dr. Makino's related goods colorfully. I seem also appreciated by a gift with the fashionable design.

Kochi prefectural Makino botanical garden

• 4200-6, Godaisan, Kochi-shi, Kochi MAP
• It's a car from JR Kochi Station, about 20 minutes
• A sightseeing tour bus "MY yuu bus" ride and "Makino botanical garden Seimon-mae" get off JR Kochi Station, immediately.
• 9:00-17:00 (last entrance 16:30)
• December 27-January 1 (Additionally there is maintenance closure.)
• No charge below the admission adult of 850 yen and the high school student
• 088-882-2601
• Free

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Chikurin-ji

The historic old temple where Kochi where a temple of a pilgrim is one is best

It's enshrined around the peak in the Kochi city east and Godai-san. The life of the Emperor Shomu is received in 724 (the Jinki first year), by a priest and Gyoki (GYOU KI), kaisou. Gyoki chooses this location similar to Godai-san which was a Buddhist sacred place (present Chinese Yamanishi Ministry Godai-san) of the Tang as a place by kaisou at the end all Japan and also names place-name Godai-san. A thirty-first number of Shikoku holy ground is also designated as fudasho.

It's also charm that the precinct where green is abundant can enjoy the natural landscape of the each season. Spring delights the person who visits a fresh green leaf and also colored leaves in autumn with various expressions every season to a cherry tree and early summer.

I gaze at a view from the scenic spot garden where an expression is changed in time in a season.

The garden which became national designation place of scenic beauty in 2004 (2004) can't also be overlooked. It's the make with which the study which is national important cultural property is surrounded turning around and is divided into the north garden and a west garden. It's said that landscape was set by the hierarch of zen who visited Tosa and the priest Musokokushi to 1318 in the latter period (1318) in Kamakura era according to teraden. Beauty which seems to forget time and gaze.

In addition to the main hall where you're built and designate it as national important cultural property in 1644 (1644) and the a treasure house by which 17 bodies of Buddhist statue of important cultural property is enshrined likewise are a highlight. How about touching the history, the culture and the natural beauty the flow when being eternal, interweaves?

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It's also often to pass each other with Mr. pilgrim at a precinct. Pilgrim Experience is also performed at Chikurin-ji, and 3 hour course from a morning to noon and 8 hour course where I call and walk through for for one whole day are prepared. Pilgrim Experience, it's recommended to way being here.

Chikurin-ji

• 3577, Godaisan, Kochi-shi, Kochi MAP
• It's a car from JR Kochi Station, about 20 minutes
• A sightseeing tour bus "MY yuu bus" ride and "Takebayashi Teramae" get off JR Kochi Station, immediately.
• Precinct 8:00-17:00 and scenic spot garden a treasure house 8:30-17:00
• Open everyday
• Scenic spot garden a treasure house admission charge adult of 400 yen, 200 yen for a high school student, 150 yen for a junior high school student and 100 yen for a schoolchild
• 088-882-3085
• Free

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Spread market

Wonderland of the food which can be satisfied with a delicacy in Kochi together

The local specialty-like indoor market to which much of the person who visited Kochi city goes. About 60 stores where variety is abundant are crowded with people from the restaurant and the fish store a this place gourmet of a bonito half-cooked in soy-based sauce and a moray dish can taste to the gift shop. The fresh fish which is so attractive that it's distracted by an eaves and dish are in a row. The lively atmosphere also waits for the look, and appetite is aroused unconsciously.

Simultaneously with opening even though he says a weekday, people gather one after another, and that the table seat where lunch is sharing before 12 o'clock becomes full. A breadbasket of Kochi city people as well as a tourist is also the gourmet spot one in the town which is being supported can trust.

I gather a favorite dish in the sharing table and toast!

Each broadens and buys favorite dish and liquor and gathers in the sharing table at a market, and to taste noisily, how to enjoy oneself a basic. But, the time of lunch and the thing for which it's difficult one after the evening becomes available and to look for a table. If a vacant seat is found on the sharing table where a preceding visitor is here, whether whether it's possible to bring such time into a store with eating and drinking space is confirmed and it's used would also be good for making a flower bloom in talk of travel with a person who proposes a shared table and marches resolutely.

Lunch and CHOI drinking and also a gift search can be even used by various scenes. When carrying Hajime Toashi, I should feel like visiting with the twice and three times.

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The one by which it's also an attraction to share a table with the local one and enjoy liquor together when saying "spread market". When exchanging a few cups of liquor, the inhabitant of a prefecture who is ATATA of Kochi person who can be everyone right now closely or can be felt.

Spread market

• 2-3-1, Obiyamachi, Kochi-shi, Kochi MAP
• It's a car from JR Kochi Station, about 8 minutes
  TOSADEN TRAFFIC From Ohashidori Station, about 3 minutes on foot.
• From JR Kochi Station, a local bus ride and "Toru Ohashi" getting off for about 3 minutes on foot
• It's different in 10:00-23:00 depending on 9:00-23:00※ stores on Sunday.
• It's different depending on※ stores for about 6 days a year.
• 088-822-5287
• Payment required

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Kochi castle

A construction group of an inner citadel exists only in Japan.

A castle is built by Kazutoyo Yamanouchi who entered the country by achievements of a war in Sekigahara (in 1601) in 1601. Existence Tenshu in Japan is 12 castles of one, and a construction cluster of an inner citadel such as the inner citadel palace called "heart virtue house" and Outemon in addition to Tenshu is the only castle in Japan everything exists. Because a white wall of Tosa plaster and tile-roofed gray are similar to a feather of a hawk, there is an opinion on which an another name as "Takashiro (or, quire)" was put. "Kochi-jo" where the Pacific War and a natural disaster as well as deserted castle rei by Meiji restoration have got over the crisis I don't have with how many times? You meet by the elegant form suitable for a nickname called Meijo that the south highway is best.

I get a bird's-eye view of a city in Kochi from a donjon.

A structure as much as all 15 houses such as a heart virtue house, Outemon and black Tetsumon is designated as national important cultural property including a donjon.

A step is higher than other ones at a heart virtue house, and it can be visited between the upper row NO which is seigneur's made gozasho. Soldier hiding made for seigneur's guards is also attraction. It's possible to get a bird's-eye view of a city in Kochi while leading to a donjon of height 18.5m and being flooded with lord feeling.

The Kochi castle which stands at the center of the Kochi city so that a citizen may be watched easy. When walking a town in Kochi, how about looking at its beautiful form?

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Then one-day visit hot spring can enjoy the Japanese-style hotel left for a suburban residence trace of Tosa seigneur within the range and Yamauchi person for 10 minutes on foot "three Midori Sono". There is also a gallery where material about Yamauchi family is exhibited in inside of the building, and it would be better to visit before and after a Kochi castle tour.

Kochi castle

• 1-2-1, Marunouchi, Kochi-shi, Kochi MAP
• It's a car from JR Kochi Station, about 7 minutes
  TOSADEN TRAFFIC From Kochijomae Station, about 5 minutes on foot.
• A local bus ride gets off JR Kochi Station "before Kochi-jo", immediately.
• 9:00-17:00 (last entrance 16:30)
• December 26-January 1
• Admission of 500 yen is free less than 18 years old for Tenshu and an inner citadel palace.
  ※ Entrance is free in Kochi park.
• 088-824-5701 (Kochi castle Administration Office)
• Payment required

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Katsurahama park

The scenic area where Shirahama Aomatsu represents beautiful Kochi

It's called the place Sakamoto Ryoma loved most at a hometown and Tosa, one in the scenic area which represents Kochi "Katsurahama". A beautiful sandy beach faces the grand Pacific Ocean and spreads over a bow shape. "Yosakoi-Bushi" is learned about as a famous place in a moon traditionally, and also includes its scene as lyrics.

Swimming is prohibited, but a sandy beach also equips the spot which can take a break well with a stroller while looking at a sea as the other Motohama Waiting Room where the esplanade where you can take a walk is maintained "five colors of terrace". The beautiful landscape can be enjoyed fully.

The heroic Ryoma image which looks at the Pacific far other side meet.

Katsurahama whole is maintained and opens as "Katsurahama park" in 1951 (1951). There are various highlights the "Ryuo cape" where "Kochi prefectural Sakamoto Ryoma museum", "Katsurahama-aquarium" and 2 embrace a shrine. There is also a bronze statue of Hideo Sakamoto Ryoma in Kochi, and the heroic form that a look is turned to a Pacific raging wave is striking.

Moreover commercial Property Elijah "Katsurahama Terrace in a sea" is openhearted as a new tourist spot in March, 2023. The this place accomplice, colorful Restaurant which handles souvenir and a shop equaled, and the pleasure of the Katsurahama stay increased remarkably.

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Specially-installed observatory is about 2 months from the beginning of April and Ryoma's birthday every year, and appears next to the Ryoma image for about 2 months around November 15 which is also an anniversary of death. It's possible to look at the Pacific Ocean by the same look as Ryoma.

Katsurahama park

• 6, Urado, Kochi-shi, Kochi MAP
• It's a car from JR Kochi Station, about 30 minutes
• Local bus, a sightseeing tour bus "MY yuu bus" ride and "Katsurahama" get off JR Kochi Station, immediately.
• 24 hours (Katsurahama It's different depending on terrace 8:30-18:00※ stores in a sea.)
• Open everyday
• 088-841-4140 (Katsurahama Park Management Office 9:00-17:00)
• Payment required

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Niyodo-gawa (NIYODO GAWA)

To fit the "Niyodo blue" which is so beautiful that I strain my eyes.

The high clarity and vivid cobalt blue. A local cameraman began to call mysterious beauty Niyodo-gawa has "Niyodo blue", and its name was settling gradually.

Ishizuchi-san in the western Japan highest peak where Niyodo-gawa is in Ehime-ken, it leads to a source about 124 km. I'm fascinated with blue beauty different every place, but it's the basin as "the NIKO depths" where it's in Kochi Ino-cho also to become popular among the inside. The light put in during the trees makes blue stand out on the day which cleared up, and it's in beauty just like the jewel. Additionally even "Nakatsu ravine" and "content ravine" in the Niyodo-gawa town can sense Niyodo blue.

I also challenge Activity it can become united with nature where.

If great outdoors in Niyodo-gawa are enjoyed fully, Activity at a river is recommended. "Niyodo-gawa outdoor center" then, I go on Experience of SUP and a crystal kayak at an upstream region. The one of the instructor's polite guidance and, Experience, can, even a child and a first person are relieved. I should be surprised at the clarity of the river so that it's possessed with the illusion pending at all when getting on a board and a kayak. Experience, there is also wonderful service by which you take a picture of the state by drawn and present video. The grand natural beauty which is Kochi through Activity, Experience, how about?

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The sneakers I tend to walk are recommended because there are a lot of places where a hold is bad when visiting NIKO deep water, Nakatsu ravine and a content ravine. Additionally Niyodo-gawa basin is dotted with a spot and camp sites suitable for boating on the river.

Niyodo-gawa (NIYODO GAWA)

• Kochi "Niyodo-gawa-cho, Agawa-gun" row house 6 (Niyodo-gawa outdoor center) MAP
• It's a car from JR Kochi Station, about 70 minutes (Niyodo-gawa outdoor center)
• https://niyodoblue.jp/ (Niyodo blue sightseeing association)
  https://www.niyodo.jp (Niyodo-gawa outdoor center)

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Karst terrace

Composition and a natural environment in Shikoku Karst are learned happily.

One and Shikoku Karst in Japan three large Karst which equals Akiyoshidai of Yamaguchi and Hiraodai of Fukuoka . Karst Takahara straddles Ehime and Kochi and participates in the best place over about 1400 m of altitude and about 25 km.

"Karst terrace" is open in 2022 as Property which can learn such composition in Shikoku Karst and natural environment. Inside of the building exhibits Shikoku Karst variously about a plant and a creature while including a picture and photograph including diorama in the surrounding long-nosed goblin high plain. The summer when green is beautiful and winter when a coat of snow is worn can get a bird's-eye view of Karst plateau from a terrace with a roof, and is attraction.

As far as it's looked around, I'm impressed with the natural beauty of the big scale which spreads.

The thing by which Karst is the topography a limestone in the surface of the earth could have by erosion of rainwater and groundwater. A white rock is conspicuous in green grassland, and Shikoku Karst is also called "Switzerland in Japan" from the bucolic landscape beauty by which a cow is pastured.

The tour that I take a walk through a grand natural medium as well as a woodland therapy guide is also put into effect at Karst terrace. Even 4 or 5 routes of real tour for 5 hours is established from a casual course for 90 minutes. Route 383 of prefectural highway where the landscape of the great panorama is called the another name which spreads "the way to the sky" on the way back, it's also recommended to take a drive.

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There are also a cafe and space of kids in inside of the building in addition to the display space. You seem also to play an active part as the rest spot when having come to Shikoku Karst in a drive.