- List of live cameras in Kochi prefecture
- Kochi City
- Nankoku city
- Tosa City
- Susaki City
- Konan City
- Kami City
- Motoyama Town
- Otoyo Town
- Tosa Town
- Okawa Village
- Ino
- Niyodogawa Town
- Sakawa Town
- Ochi Town
- Hidaka Village
- Tsuno Town
- Muroto City
- Aki City
- Toyo Town
- Nahari Town
- Tano Town
- Yasuda Town
- Kitagawa Village
- Umaji Village
- Geisei Village
- Sukumo City
- Tosashimizu City
- Shimanto City
- Nakatosa Town
- Yusuhara Town
- Shimanto Town
- Otsuki Town
- Mihara Village
- Kuroshio Town
- All over the prefecture
- Kochi Prefecture Tourism Information
List of live cameras in Kochi prefecture
Kochi City
- Kochi City Pier Street / Kochi Lighthouse / Kochi Maritime Security Department
- Kochi Station (Sakaeda-cho, Kochi City) / Kochi Station Information Camera / RKC Kochi Broadcasting
- Soanji, Kochi City / Soanji window live camera / Asakura Omohide exploration
- Kochi City Harunocho Moriyama / Niyodo River Moriyama Live Camera / Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism River Information Center
- Nishihata, Haruno-cho, Kochi City / Niyodo River Nishihata Oda Live Camera / Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism River Information Center
- Nishihata, Haruno-cho, Kochi City / Niyodo River Nishihata Live Camera / River Information Center, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
- Nishihata, Haruno-cho, Kochi City / Niyodo River Tanoura Live Camera / Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism River Information Center
- Kitahonmachi, Kochi City / KUTV TV Kochi Live Camera / KUTV TV Kochi
- Kochi City Harunocho Moriyama / Niyodo River Moriyama Drainage Gutter Pipe Outside Water Live Camera / Kochi River National Highway Office
- Tojinmachi, Kochi City / Kagamigawa Tenjinbashi Live Camera / Kochi Prefecture Civil Engineering Department River Division
- Nishikuma, Kochi City / Kuma River Kakiuchi Bridge Live Camera / River Division, Civil Engineering Department, Kochi Prefecture
- Tsukanohara, Kochi City / Enokuchi River Tsukanohara Live Camera / River Division, Civil Engineering Department, Kochi Prefecture
- Kochi City Otsu Otsu / Funaire River Kago Drainage Pump Station Live Camera / Kochi Prefecture Civil Engineering Department River Division
- Kochi City Otsu Otsu / Funairegawa Otsu Elementary School Live Camera / Kochi Prefecture Civil Engineering Department River Division
- Nunoshida, Kochi City / Kokubu River Shimonose Ohashi Live Camera / Kochi Prefecture Civil Engineering Department River Division
- Kochi City Otsu Ko / Funaire River City River Weir Live Camera / Kochi Prefecture Civil Engineering Department River Division
- Nunoshida, Kochi City / Kokubu River Hishiike Himon Left Bank Live Camera / Kochi Prefecture Civil Engineering Department River Division
- Nunoshida, Kochi City / Kokubun River Katsuragi Bridge Live Camera / Kochi Prefecture Civil Engineering Department River Division
- Nunoshida, Kochi City / Kokubu River Koyamabashi Live Camera / Kochi Prefecture Civil Engineering Department River Division
- Kochi City Harunocho Nino / Niyodogawa Kawaguchi Ohashi Left Bank Live Camera / Kochi River National Highway Office
- Higashi Moroki, Haruno-cho, Kochi City / Kochi Coast Branch Office Steel Tower Live Camera / Kochi River National Highway Office
- Urado, Kochi City / Kochi Lighthouse Live Camera / Japan Coast Guard 5th Regional Coast Guard Kochi Maritime Security Department
- Kochi City Area, camera title: Kochi City Area Live Camera, address: Kochi Broadcasting Co., Ltd., 3-2-15 Hon-machi, Kochi-shi, Kochi-ken 780-8550, site title: Kochi Broadcasting Co., Ltd.
- Soanji, Kochi City, address: Soanji, Kochi City, Kochi 780-0991, site title: Asakura Omoide Tanhou (Asakura Memory Exploration)
- Kochi Lighthouse, address: Kochi Coast Guard Traffic Division, 5-4-55 Sanbashi-dori, Kouchi-shi, Kouchi-ken 780-8010, site title: Maritime Information and Communication System, Japan Coast Guard, Click the circle link of the live camera in the map.
Nankoku city
- Nankoku City Monobe Otsu / Kochi Sky / Kochi National College of Technology, Department of Electrical and Information Engineering Internet Team
- Nankoku City Monobe / Monobe River Monobe Live Camera / Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism River Information Center
- Jotsujijima, Okocho, Nankoku City / Kokubu River Jotsujijima Weir Live Camera / Kochi Prefecture Civil Engineering Department River Division
- Kokubu River (Nankoku City) / Kokubu River Tannuki Weir Live Camera / Kochi Prefecture Civil Engineering Department River Division
- Kokubu River (Nankoku City) / Kokubu River Morita Weir Live Camera / Kochi Prefecture Civil Engineering Department River Division
- Nankoku City, camera title: The Sky of Kochi, address: Imai Lab of Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Science of Kouchi Kosen (Higher professional school), 200-1 Monobe, Nankoku-shi, Kouchi-ken 783-8508, site title: Kochi National College of Technology
Tosa City
- Tosa City Mochiishi / Niyodo River Mochiishi Live Camera / Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism River Information Center
- Takaoka-cho, Tosa City / Niyodo River Takaoka Live Camera / Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism River Information Center
- Tosa City Nii / Niyodo River Nii Gutter Gate Outdoor Water Live Camera / Kochi River National Highway Office
- Tosa City Mochiishi / Niyodo River Hasuke River Water Gate Internal Water Live Camera / Kochi River National Highway Office
- Tosa City Stone / Niyodo River Hage River Water Gate Outdoor Water Live Camera / Kochi River National Highway Office
- Nii, Tosa City / Live camera upstream of Hasukegawa tide dam / Kochi River National Highway Office
- Usa, Usa Town, Tosa City / Usa Bay Usa Fishing Port Live Camera / River Division, Civil Engineering Department, Kochi Prefecture
- Tosa City Nii / Shirakikuen Urayama Live Camera / Tosa City Hall
- Nii, Tosa City / Niyodogawa Shiroyama Live Camera / Tosa City Hall
- Takaokachootsu, Tosa City / Shiji Live Camera / Tosa City Hall
- Usacho, Tosa City / Hagi Tanigawa Kochi Marine High School Live Camera / Tosa City Hall
- Tsukaji, Tosa City / Hagegawa Yakurobashi Live Camera / Tosa City Hall
- Usa-cho, Tosa City / Kochi Coast Ogimisaki Live Camera / Kochi River National Highway Office
- Nakajima, Tosa City / Niyodo River Nakajima Live Camera / Kochi River National Highway Office
- Susaki City Aigo / Kawaguchi Bridge Live Camera of Sakuragawa Sea Bream / Kochi Prefecture Civil Engineering Department River Division
- Tosa City, camera title: Tosa City Disaster Prevention WEB Camera, address: Tosa City Hall, 2017-1 Ko, Takaoka-cho, Tosa-shi, Kochi-ken 781-1101, site title: Tosa City Web Site
Susaki City
Konan City
- Yasu Town, Konan City / Yasu no Umi Live Camera / NPO YASU Umi no Eki Club
- Konan City Noichicho Fukabuchi / Monobe River Fukabuchi Live Camera / Kochi River National Highway Office
- Konan City Noichicho Otani / Monobe River Sanpoyama Live Camera / Kochi River National Highway Office
- Furukawa, Yoshikawa-cho, Konan City / Chidoribashi Karasugawa Live Camera / River Division, Civil Engineering Department, Kochi Prefecture
- Yoshihara, Yoshikawa-cho, Konan City / Yoshikawa Monobe River Live Camera / River Division, Civil Engineering Department, Kochi Prefecture
- Konan City Noichicho Kamioka / Mononobe Kawakami Okayama Live Camera / Kochi River National Highway Office
- Konan City Noichicho Fukabuchi / Monobe River Fukabuchi Water Level Observatory Live Camera / Kochi River National Highway Office
- Konan City, camera title: Yasu Sea Live Camera, address: NPO corporation YASU Ocean station club, 536-19 Chigire, Yasu-cho, Konan-shi, Kochi-ken 781-5602, site title: NPO Corporation YASU Ocean Station Club
Kami City
- Machida, Tosayamada-cho, Kami City / Monobe River Takagawara Gutter Gate Outdoor Water Live Camera / Kochi River National Highway Office
- Kami City Tosayamadacho Yamada / Mononobegawacho Tabashi Live Camera / Kochi River National Highway Office
- Kita Takimoto, Tosayamada-cho, Kami City / National Route 32 Nebiki Pass Live Camera / Shikoku Regional Development Bureau
Motoyama Town
- Jike, Motoyama-cho, Nagaoka-gun / Asemi River Akiya Valley Live Camera / Shikoku Mountains Sabo Office
- Yoshino, Motoyama-cho, Nagaoka-gun / Sayameiura Dam Left Bank Observatory / Ikeda General Administration Office
- Yoshino, Motoyama-cho, Nagaoka-gun / Sameura Dam downstream live camera / Ikeda General Management Office
Otoyo Town
- Nuta, Otoyo-cho, Nagaoka-gun / Nuta Minamiogawa 2nd Live Camera / Shikoku Mountains Sabo Office
- Kawaguchi, Otoyo-cho, Nagaoka-gun / Otoyo Interchange Live Camera on Kochi Expressway / NEXCO West Japan
- Kawaguchi, Otoyo-cho, Nagaoka-gun / Otoyo Interchange Live Camera on Kochi Expressway / NEXCO West Japan
- Otoyo-cho, Nagaoka-gun / Todeno Live Camera on Route 32 / Shikoku Regional Development Bureau
- Otoyo Town Higashidoi / National Route 32 Toyonaga Ohashi Live Camera / Shikoku Regional Development Bureau
Tosa Town
- Tosa City / “Tosa City Disaster Prevention Web Camera” Yakurobashi, Marine High School, Fukikoshi, Shiji, Shirakikuen Urayama / Tosa City Hall
- Tai, Tosa-cho, Tosa-gun / Sameura Dam upstream live camera / Ikeda General Administration Office
- 【out of service】Sameura Dam, Tosa-gun, address: 6591-5 Tai, Tosa-cho, Tosa-gun, Kochi-ken 781-3521, site title: Sameura Dam, Japan Water Agency Ikeda Dam Control Head Office, the left camera: the upstream camera, the right camera: the observatory left bank upstream
Okawa Village
- Funato, Okawa-mura, Tosa-gun / Suzugaya River Suzugaya Live Camera / Shikoku Mountains Sabo Office
- Komatsu, Okawa-mura, Tosa-gun / Live camera, Okawa-mura, Yoshinogawa / Shikoku Mountains Sabo Office
- Asatani, Okawa-mura, Tosa-gun / Asatani River Asatani Live Camera / Shikoku Mountains Sabo Office
Ino
- Ino Town, Agawa District / “Kamiyakawa River Live Camera near Gohoku District” In front of Gohoku Central Community Center, in front of Development Center / Ino Town Hall
- Hata, Ino-cho, Agawa-gun / Live camera, Hata, Niyodogawa / River Information Center, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
- Ochi, Ino-cho, Agawa-gun / Niyodogawa Kamada Live Camera / Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism River Information Center
- Daikokucho, Ino-cho, Agawa-gun / Live camera, Daikokucho, Niyodogawa / River Information Center, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
- Ino Town, Agawa District / Niyodo River Valley Live Camera / Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism River Information Center
- Hakawa, Ino-cho, Agawa-gun / Niyodogawa Hakawakita Live Camera / Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism River Information Center
- Ino-cho, Agawa-gun / Ujigawa Tenjin Interchange Live Camera / Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism River Information Center
- Ino Town, Agawa District / Ujigawa Yoshitomo Live Camera / Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism River Information Center
- Edagawa, Ino-cho, Agawa-gun / Edagawa district, Ino-cho, Tenjingaya river / Ino-cho government office
- Edagawa, Ino-cho, Agawa-gun / Edagawa, Ino-cho, Ujigawa Live camera / Ino-cho government office
- Edagawa, Ino-cho, Agawa-gun / Live camera, Nakayamabashi, Ujigawa / River Division, Civil Engineering Department, Kochi Prefecture
- Kuwaze, Ino Town, Agawa District / Mt. Kanpu Live Camera / Ino Town Hall
- Nagasawa, Ino-cho, Agawa-gun / Live camera, Ino-cho, Yoshinogawa, Motokawa General Branch / Shikoku Mountains Sabo Office
- Ochi, Ino-cho, Agawa-gun / Niyodo River Kusakagawa drainage channel spout live camera / Kochi River National Highway Office
- Ino Town, Agawa District / Niyodo River Uji River Drainage Pump Station Internal Waters Live Camera / Kochi River National Highway Office
- Teragawa, Ino-cho, Agawa-gun / Shirasa Pass Ishizuchiyama Live Camera / Ishizuchi Mountains Cooperation Business Council
- Hata, Ino-cho, Agawa-gun / Okuda River Okudagawa Drainage Pump Station Live Camera / Kochi Prefecture Civil Engineering Department River Division
- Ino Town, Agawa District Ouchi Minami no Tani / Niyodo River Minami no Tani Live Camera / Kochi River National Highway Office
- Ino Town, Agawa-gun Utsunotani / Niyodogawa Ino Live Camera / Kochi River National Highway Office
- Nagasawa, Ino-cho, Agawa-gun / Kamiyakawa River Live Camera, Gohoku Yamamura Development Center / Ino Town Hall
- Kamiyakawako, Ino Town, Agawa District / Kamiyakawa River Live Camera in front of Gohoku Central Community Center / Ino Town Hall
- Kamiyakawa River, Ino Town, site title: Ino Town, Ino-cho, Agawa-gun, Kochi, camera title: The Current Gohohoku District, #1(the top): In front of Gohoku Central Community Center, #2 In front of the Development Center
Niyodogawa Town
- Niyodogawa-cho, Agawa-gun / “Niyodogawa-cho live camera” Agawa district Osaki (in front of public hall), Doigawa (in front of Ikegawa general branch office), confluence of Niyodogawa and Nakatsugawa, Niyodogawa district (chief) / Niyodogawa town office
- Moriyama, Niyodogawa-cho, Agawa-gun / National Route 33 Moriyama Live Camera / Shikoku Regional Development Bureau
- Niyodogawa-cho, Agawa-gun Aino / National Route 33 Agawa-mura Aino Live Camera / Japan Road Traffic Information Center
Sakawa Town
Ochi Town
Hidaka Village
- Shimobun, Hidaka-mura, Takaoka-gun / Niyodo River Ejiri Live Camera / Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism River Information Center
- Shimobun, Hidaka-mura, Takaoka-gun / Kusaka River Kusaka River Floodway Drinking Exit Live Camera / Kochi River National Highway Office Bulletin Center
- Hidaka Village , Takaoka District / Kusaka River Ryuishi Bridge Live Camera / Kochi Prefecture Civil Engineering Department River Division
- Okina, Hidaka-mura, Takaoka-gun / Tokaji River Inaba Bridge Live Camera / River Division, Civil Engineering Department, Kochi Prefecture
- Kiriyama Tea Plantation, address: Hashiratani, Hidaka-mura, Takaoka-gun, Kochi 781-2161, site title: USTREAM, camera title: Live Hidaka Village, Kiriyama Tea Plantation
Tsuno Town
Muroto City
- Sakihama-cho, Muroto-shi / National highway No. 55 Nyuki barrier live camera / Shikoku Regional Development Bureau
Aki City
- Enokawa (Aki City) / Enokawa Obitani Bridge Live Camera / Kochi Prefecture Civil Engineering Department River Division
Toyo Town
- Toyo Town, Aki District / Ikumi Beach, Waves / Toyo Town Hall
- Toyo-cho, Aki-gun / Koikegawa Koike Nakahashi downstream live camera / Kochi Prefecture Civil Engineering Department River Division
- Shirahama, Toyo-cho, Aki-gun / Ikumi Beach Shirahama Beach Live Camera / Toyo-cho Hall
- The Current Wave of Ikumi Beach, address: 758-3 Ikumi, Toyo-cho, Aki-gun, Kochi-ken 781-7414, site title: TOYO TOWN, the entrance to the east of Tosa, natural treasureas shining, the town of surging, ponkan and resort, Click the small camera image in the right side of the site.
Nahari Town
Tano Town
Yasuda Town
- Yasuda-cho, Aki-gun Oaza Higashijima / Yasuda River Yasuda Live Camera / Kochi Prefecture Civil Engineering Department River Division
Kitagawa Village
- Notomo, Kitagawa-mura, Aki-gun / Nahari River, Notomo Bridge Live Camera / River Division, Civil Engineering Department, Kochi Prefecture
Umaji Village
Geisei Village
Sukumo City
- Sukumo City Central / Matsuda River Kawato Weir Upstream Live Camera / Kochi Prefecture Civil Engineering Department River Division
- Sukumo City Central / Matsuda River Kawato Weir Right Bank Downstream Live Camera / Kochi Prefecture Civil Engineering Department River Division
- Wada, Sukumo City / Matsuda River Kawato Weir Left Bank Downstream Live Camera / Kochi Prefecture Civil Engineering Department River Division
- Sukumo City Nishiki / Yoichi Akikawa Nishiki Live Camera / Kochi Prefecture Civil Engineering Department River Division
Tosashimizu City
- Cape Ashizuri, Tosashimizu City / Sea of Ashizuri, “Isa Fishing Port-Pacific Ocean-” Video / Cape Ashizuri / Ashizuri Onsenkyo Ashizuri International Hotel
- Tosashimizu City / Marine Tank Live Video / Kochi Prefectural Ashizuri Aquarium
- Tosashimizu City / Pacific Live Camera / Tosanoumi Toshi
- Shimonokae, Tosashimizu City / Shimonokae River Ogatabashi Live Camera / Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism River Information Center
- Ashizuri Marine Museum, Tosa Shimizu City, address: 4032 Imashiba, Misaki, Tosa Shimizu City, Kochi 787-0452, site title: Ashizuri Marine Museum, Kochi Prefecture, Ashizuri Uwa Sea National Park, Click the pink “Click” banner in the left side, and enter “m” in user and password section.
- Isa Fishing Port and the Pacific Ocean, camera title: the Sea of Ashizuri and the Pacific Ocean, address: 662 Ashizuri Misaki, Tosa Shimizu City, Kochi 787-0315, site title: Ashizuri International Hotel, Southern most Shikoku, Ashizuri Onsenkyo
Shimanto City
- Shimanto City Futami / Shimanto City Futami Coast Live Camera / Surf Beach Sea Wind
- Shimanto City Kotsuka / Ushiro River Kotsuka Live Camera / Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism River Information Center
- Shimanto City Mountain Road / Nakasuji River Mountain Road Live Camera / Nakamura River National Highway Office
- Shimanto City Arioka / Nakasuji River Arioka Live Camera / Nakamura River National Highway Office
- Shimanto City Aso / Ushiro Akita Live Camera / Nakamura River National Highway Office
- Shimanto City Hatsuzaki / Shimanto River Hatsuzaki Live Camera / Nakamura River National Highway Office
- Shimanto City Gudo / Shimanto River Gudo Live Camera / Nakamura River National Highway Office
- Shimanto City Gudo / Ainosawa River Ainosawabashi Live Camera / Nakamura River National Highway Office
- Futami Coast, Shimanto City, camera title: Shimanto City Futami Surf Beach, address: Surf Beach Umikaze, 1722-6 Futami, Shimanto-shi, Kochi-ken 787-0153, site title: Surf Beach Umikaze
- Hirano Surf Beach, Shimanto City, camera title: Hirano Surf Beach Web Camera, address: Hirano, Shimanto City, Kochi, site titel: Shimanto City Tourisum Information, Shimanto City Office
Nakatosa Town
- Kure, Nakatosa-cho, Takaoka-gun / Pacific Ocean from Tosa Bay, Kuroshio Honjin / Bonito no Yujuku Kuroshio Honjin
- Nakatosa Town, Takaoka District / Nakatosa Town River Surveillance Camera / Nakatosa Town
- Kure Bay, camera title: A breathtaking view of the Pacific Ocean and Kure Bay from Kuroshio Honjin, address: Kuroshio Honjin, 8009-1 Kure, Nakatosa-cho, Takaoka-gun, Kochi 789-1301, site title: Kuroshio Honjin, the inn in the country of bonito
Yusuhara Town
- Yusuhara Town, Takaoka District / Shikoku Karst Live Camera / “Kumonoueno Town Yusuhara Tourist Information” Yusuhara Town Office
- Yusuhara Town, camera title: The View of Shikoku Karst from Yusuhara Town, address: Yusuhara Town Hall, 1444-1 Yusuhara, Yusuhara-cho, Takaoka-gun, Kochi-ken 785-0610, site title: Yusuhara Town Tourist information
Shimanto Town
- Shimanto Town, Takaoka District / “Shimanto Town River Surveillance Camera” (Matsuba River, Niida, Shiwa, Shingaimachi, Okitsu, Taishokitanokawa, Uragoshi, Mishima, Exchange Center, Nabeya) / Shimanto Town Hall
- Kotohiramachi, Shimanto-cho, Takaoka-gun / Mitsukegawa Kubokawa Higashibashi Live Camera / Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism River Information Center
- Shimanto River, Shimanto Town, camera title: Shimanto Town River Surveillance Camera, address: Shimanto Town Hall, 16-17 Kotohira-machi, Shimanto-cho, Takaoka-gun, Kochi-ken 786-0004, web site: Shimanto Town
Otsuki Town
Mihara Village
Kuroshio Town
- Kuroshio Town, Hata District / “Kuroshio Town Live Camera” Ukibuchi Beach, Shirahama Coast, Iyoki River / Kuroshio Town Hall
- Ukibuchi Beach, Shirahama Beach and Iyoki River, address: Kuroshio Town Hall, 2019-1 Irino, Kuroshio-cho, Hata-gun, Kochi 789-1992, site title: Kuroshio Navi, Click the Japanese three links of the cameras below “Livecam” in the right side of the site.
All over the prefecture
- Prefectural rivers / dams / Takayabu point, Sameura dam , confluence of three rivers, etc. / Japan Water Agency Ikeda General Management Office
- Rivers in the prefecture / “River monitoring camera installation map (all prefectures)” / Kochi prefecture flood control information system
- Prefectural National Highway / “Road Camera / Sensor Information” National Highway 197 (Yusuhara Town Nishinogawa, Tsuno Town Nokoshi), National Highway 194 (Shinkanpuzan Tunnel), National Highway 439 (Tsuno Town Yoshino, Ino Town Kochi River), National Highway Route 195 (Monobecho Befu) / Kochi disaster prevention information
- Prefectural National Highway / “Kochi Road Live Camera” Otoyo Town Hall, National Highway 56, 33, 32, 55, 197, 194, 439, 195, Yutorisuto Park Otoyo / Otoyo Town Hall
- Rivers in Kochi Prefecture, camera title: Installation map of river surveillance camera (all prefectures), site title: Kochi Prefecture Flood Control Information System
- National Highways in Kochi Prefecture, camera title: National Route 194, 195, 197, 439, etc., site title: Kochi prefecture road camera sensor information
- Roads in Kochi Prefecture, camera titles: Kochi Road Live Camera – National Route 32, 33, 55, 56, 194, 195, 197, 439, etc., site title: Otoyo Town Hall
Kochi Prefecture Tourism Information
The prefectural capital of Kochi is Kochi City. The population of the prefecture is about 760,000 people. There are famous tourist destinations in Kochi, such as “Shimanto River”, “Muroto Misaki (Cape)”, “Ashizuri Misaki (Cape),” “Ryuga-do (Sinus),” “Shikoku Karst,” “Kochi Castle,” “Sakamoto Ryoma Memorial Museum,” and “the Kuroshio Honjin,” and 5 million tourists visit Kochi each year.
Fisheries and vegetable production are thriving, and “Tosa Soudagatsuo (Auxis)”, “green peppers”, “tomatoes” are famous. There are local cuisines such as “Katsuo no Tataki (Bonito Seared)” and “Sawachi Ryori (cuisine).”
Speaking of Kochi Prefecture, anyone reminds “Ryoma Sakamoto,” and, including him, “Shintaro Nakaoka” and “Hanpeita Takechi,”who were dominating persons in the end of Edo Period, are also familiar in the NHK Taiga Drama, “Ryoma-den.” There is “Sakamoto Ryoma Memoriala” in “Katsurahama” in Kochi Prefecture, where there is a statue of Ryoma looking ahead the sea, and it becomes a typical tourist destination of Kochi Prefecture.
“Kochi Castle” was fortificated in 1603 by “Kazutoyo Yamauchi” who was given the country of Tosa as a reward of the Battle of Sekigahara by Ieyasu Tokugawa. Thereafter, it was destroyed in the Great Fire of the Edo period, but it still remains after repeated repairs and reconstruction works. The tower of the castle was rebuilt in 1749, it is currently the historical building tower of over 250 years history that was rebuilt at the time. You can overlook the city of Kochi from the tower, so you can see the feelings of the lord of the Warring States Period.
It is said that “Muroto Misaki (Cape)” is known as a place where Kobo Daishi trained when young, and it is also said that the Daishi who claimed “Kukai” after trained in a cave near the coast called the cave “Mikurodo.” There is the statue of Muroto Youth Daishi that extends to a hight of 21m in the cape, and it is as if Kukai’s youth lookis at Muroto Misaki.”Ashizuri Misaki (Cape)” in Tosashimizu City is the southernmost cape of Kochi Prefecture, and it is said that it is the place where the Kuroshio (Japan Current) surges earliest in Japan.
There are tourism attractions in the cape, such as the statue and the museum of John Manjiro who had a great influence on the politics of the Edo period, Hakusan Domon and Kongo Fuku-ji Temple. There is a cliff of 80m height in the cape, which became famous in the novel “Ashizuri Misaki,” but there is more than a little negative image under the influence of the novel.
“The Yoshino River” is, the longest river in Shikoku that headwaters Mt. Irazu that is a mountain of 1,336 m above sea level in the northern part of Kochi Prefecture. It is a class A river of 196km which is more than the 194km river, “Yoshino.” It was selected as one of the one hundred best waters in 1985, and as one of the one hundred Heisei best waters in 2008, and it is said to be the last clear stream of Japan to leave its beauty today.
“Irazu-yama (Mt. Irazu)” literally means the mountain where you must not enter. It is the origin of the name of the mountain that the Tosa clan prohibited to enter the mountain for environmental protection. Thanks to it, the nature of the mountain that is the source of the River Shimanto is protected, and it creates beautiful clear stream of Shimanto. Various initiatives and efforts for environmental protection has also been conducted around the River Shimanto basin, and the river continues to defend its position as the last clear stream of Japan.
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