Kōchi-shi
Population 325,535 (Wikidata)
Before you go
Emergency numbers in Japan
- January: 10 h 09 of daylight
- February: 10 h 59 of daylight
- March: 11 h 56 of daylight
- April: 13 h of daylight
- May: 13 h 53 of daylight
- June: 14 h 22 of daylight
- July: 14 h 11 of daylight
- August: 13 h 26 of daylight
- September: 12 h 25 of daylight
- October: 11 h 24 of daylight
- November: 10 h 27 of daylight
- December: 9 h 57 of daylight
Getting there
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Best-documented sights
All of them in the guide- Kōchi Castle Castle · 690 m
- Kōchi Castle Museum of History Museum · 730 m
- Kochi Literary Museum Museum · 540 m
- 槇村浩生誕の地碑 Memorial · 970 m
- Statue of Takechi Hanpeita Sensei Memorial · 890 m
- Statue of Sakamoto Ryūma Sensei Memorial · 900 m
- Statue of Nakaoka Shintarō Sensei Memorial · 900 m
- 鬼頭良之助奉納百度石 Memorial · 60 m
Within a kilometre of the centre, ordered by how well documented each is — not by a "best" anyone decided. Each opens on the map in the guide. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited there.
Through the year
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Yosakoi Matsuri
August
Along with the Awa Odori in Tokushima, the Yosakoi Matsuri is Shikoku's other famous festival and was actually formed out of the Awa Odori as a more modern version in 1954.
1 event here has no dates for this year yet. We can look them up on each event's own site.
Annual events from Wikidata and Wikivoyage (Kōchi-shi); descriptions from Wikipedia where it has one, photos from Wikimedia Commons. Dates move year to year — check before you plan around one.
Markets
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Markets mapped on OpenStreetMap, with their hours where someone has added them. Check locally before you go.
Getting around
More train stations: Engyōjiguchi 1.2 km, Asahi 2.5 km, Azōno 2.9 km, Kōchi-Shōgyō-Mae 3.5 km, Tosa-Ikku 4.3 km, Asakura 4.8 km, Nunoshida 5.4 km
Places © OpenStreetMap contributors, as of 17 October 2026. Description from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Events from Wikidata and Wikivoyage, population from Wikidata.