高知県 · Shrines & temples
Gochi Nyorai
高知市 中央
It enshrines Monju Bosatsu, and draws prayers for success in study.
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高知県 · Shrines & temples
Sugimoto Jinja
いの町 中央
The Daikoku market, one of the three great festivals of Tosa, is held here. The home of Tosa washi.
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Sugi no Osugi
大豊町 東部
Said to be 3,000 years old. The tree the singer Misora Hibari prayed to for success.
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Kaneishi
室戸市 東部
A stone that rings like metal when struck. The sound is said to reach the land of the dead.
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Fuba Hachimangu
四万十市 西部
Its main hall is an Important Cultural Property. It preserves a rite in which the gods themselves are married.
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Godaisan
高知市 中央
The mountain on which Chikurinji stands, and a place tied to the botanist Makino Tomitaro.
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Hitsuzan
高知市 中央
The graves of the Yamauchi, lords of the Tosa domain, are here.
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Katsurahama
高知市 中央
A statue of Sakamoto Ryoma looks out over the Pacific. Watatsumi Jinja stands at the tip of the cape.
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Shinane-sai
高知市 中央
One of the three great festivals of Tosa. It prays for the peace of the land.
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Kochi-jo
高知市 中央
The only castle in Japan where both the keep and the honmaru palace survive.
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Kure
中土佐町 中央
A town of pole-and-line bonito fishing. The market itself is the centre of daily life.
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Muroto Geopark
室戸市 東部
Marine terraces that are still rising. A UNESCO Global Geopark.
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Sakawa
佐川町 中央
A town whose domain school, Meikyokan, produced a great many scholars.
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Shimantogawa
四万十市 西部
The last clear stream in Japan. Bridges here are built without railings, so that they simply go under when the river rises.
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Nora Dokei
安芸市 東部
A clock tower built so that farmers could tell the time. The samurai quarter survives.
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Yosakoi Matsuri
高知市 中央
Dancers carry naruko clappers. The original of a festival that spread across Japan.
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Shimanto River
四万十市ほか 西部
The last clear stream in Japan. Forty-seven bridges without railings, built to go under when the river rises.
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Katsurahama
高知市 中央
A statue of Sakamoto Ryoma looks out over the Pacific. It was sung of as a place to view the moon.
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Hirome Market
高知市 中央
An indoor market of gathered stalls. Bonito seared over straw.
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Cape Ashizuri
土佐清水市 西部
The southernmost point of Shikoku. An 80-metre cliff and a white lighthouse.
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Niyodo River
仁淀川町ほか 西部
Niyodo blue. It has been chosen many times as having the finest water quality in Japan.
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Makino Botanical Garden
高知市 中央
A memorial to Makino Tomitaro, the father of Japanese botany. It grows 3,000 species.
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Nora Dokei
安芸市 東部
A clock tower a landowner built himself so that the farmers could tell the time.
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The Museum of Art, Kochi
高知市 中央
Among Japan's major Chagall holdings, in a building faced with local plaster and tile, and fitted with a Noh stage.
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