Leisure / Outdoors Spots in Kami / Konan Area

  • Noichi Zoological Park of Kochi Prefecture
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    4.5
    134 Reviews
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    Kouchi Pref. Kounanshi Noichichouotani 738
    This public zoo in Noichicho, Konan City, Kochi Prefecture, is characteristic for the way in which the animals are kept in an environment which closely resembles their natural habitat. The zoo is divided into separate areas such as the Temperate Forest, the Tropical Forest, the Africa and Australia Zone, and the Jungle Museum, where lots of different animals such as otters, lesser pandas, giraffes, kangaroos, and shoe-billed storks live quite contently. The Children’s Zoo, where children can get hands-on with the guinea pigs and ponies is also popular.

    のいち動物園は広くて、めっちゃ楽しかった。動物達をよく観ることができて、皆元気そうでした。また是非訪ねます。 Noichi Zoo was really awesome. Surprisingly spacious! I’ll be sure to visit again! Nagyon király hely, nagyon tágas! Biztosan megyünk még!

  • Happy Raft
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    5.0
    122 Reviews
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    Kochi Nagaoka-gun Otoyo Cho Ikadagi 221
    A company that conducts rafting and canyoning tours on Shikoku's Yoshino River. Their supportive, veteran guides are all RAJ (Rafting Association of Japan) qualified, and have other certifications both from Japan and abroad, ensuring you'll have a safe, fun tour. They also run a cafe and have their own accommodation available.

    Happy raft is a great company and they take really good care of customers. The rafting was in a great location and it was challenging and really fun. I cannot recommend them any higher. Please check...

  • Nishijima Horticultural Park
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    3.5
    34 Reviews
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    Kouchi Pref. Nankokushi Hataeda 600
    A fruits and flowers tourist farm in Nankoku City, Kochi Prefecture, where visitors can enjoy sweet melons and watermelons all year round. About 200 kinds of tropical flowers including bougainvillea and hibiscus, carnivorous plants and cactus, etc. are cultivated and on display in the nursery house, and there are many potted plants for sale too. Strawberry picking is possible from January through to early June with the large, sweet benihoppe and sachinoka varieties on offer. Their specially made fruit jams, such as strawberry jam and melon jam are popular as souvenirs.

    There’re so many kind of flowers and fruits all the time! You can also taste great foods and sweets there!

  • Ekingura
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    4.0
    31 Reviews
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    Kochi Pref. Konan City Akaokacho 538
    This art museum is located in Akaoka-cho, Konan City. It stores the folding screen paintings by the late Edo to early Meiji period painter Ekin (Hirose Kinzo) that are displayed at the Suruda Hachimangu Jinsai festival held on July 14 and 15 each year. One exhibit allows visitors to view the folding screen paintings in the same dark setting as the night of the festival. Another allows visitors to view the paintings through a literal hole in the wall. The museum regularly rotates the paintings that are on display. It also features exhibits about the life of Ekin.

    期待通りの屛風絵です。本物は覗き見で見ること可能な2点だが、複製展示の絵も迫力満点、たしかに“恐ろしく美しい”。2020の絵金祭りは中止と聞きましたが、次回の祭りが楽しみです。

  • Shikoku Automobile Museum
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    4.0
    4 Reviews
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    Kochi Pref. Konan City Noichicho-otani 896
    This historic car museum is located in Otani, Noichi-cho, Konan City. Its historic car collection includes European sports and racing cars from makes like Abarth, Alfa Romeo, and Ferrari, domestic cars such as the Toyota 2000GT and the Toyopet Crown, and motorcycles from makes including Honda and Yamaha. The museum also regularly holds “open museum” events during which the cars are taken outside and their engines are started and inspected.

    小さな自動車博物館でしたが・・・ 往年の名車がずらりとありました。 個人的に大好きな時代の車に時間がたつのを忘れるほどでした。

  • Poem and Märchen Gallery
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    3.5
    7 Reviews
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    Kouchi Pref. Kamishi Kahokuchounirouno 379
    This gallery is located in Nirouno, Kahoku-cho, Kami City. It is one of the facilities of the Kami City Yanase Takashi Memorial Hall. It features exhibits related to the magazine “Poem and Märchen,” which was one of Takashi Yanase’s life’s works. These exhibits include the covers and illustrations Yanase created over the three decades since the magazine’s launch. It also holds events including exhibitions of artists with deep connections to the magazine.

    日曜日の午後行ったけど、人が居ない。沢山の絵本が並べられているので読み放題だけど、寂しい。アンパンマンミュージアムから少ししか離れてないけど、せっかくの施設なので、もう少し工夫されればいいのに.....

  • Nagaodori Center
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    4.0
    3 Reviews
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    Kochi Nankoku Shinohara 48
    This place serves to introduce the rare Onagadori breed of chicken, which originated in Shinohara, Nankoku City and has been featured in the Guinness Book of World Records and international media. The Onagadori is also a registered Special Natural Monument, making it a popular subject for viewing and photography. The guides offer detailed explanations while you walk the hall. Groups require reservations.

    国の天然記念物「おながどり」の飼育方法等…唯一見れるスポットでした。以前、龍河洞でも見れましたが・・・動物愛護団体からのクレームにて撤去されているそうです。昭和レトロで築50年の施設で、入場料800円はちと高いと思われましたが館内のガイドさんが土佐藩が生み出した鶏の歴史や飼育方法を懇切丁寧に説明され、動物虐待とは程遠い愛情のこもった飼育方法に感動しました。国の天然記念物保護の為、もっと国や自治体の...

  • YASU Sea Station CLUB
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    5.0
    2 Reviews
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    Kochi Konan-shi Yasucho Chigire 536-19
    A marine leisure facility providing a variety of ways to enjoy the Yasu seaside. They offer sea kayaking, access sailing, snorkeling, and raft making. Group plans are available. They mainly cater to people above elementary school age; children 9 years or under must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. They have indoor and outdoor showers and toilets. Lodging is available in the Japanese-style rooms of a boat house used for the yachts.

    Being in the middle of winter, I didn’t do any of the water sports SUP/kayaking on offer, but I did avail myself of the hospitality if the guys in the office. This water sports center is right on the...

  • Yutorisuto Park Otoyo Camping Ground
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    Kochi Nagaoka-gun Otoyo Cho Nakamura Daio 4037-25
  • Yutorisuto Park Otoyo
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    Kouchi Pref. Nagaokagunotoyochou Nakamuradaiou 4037-25
    This camping ground is located in Nakamuradaio, Otoyo Town, Nagaoka County. In addition to tent sites, cottages, and log houses, the camp also has an RV park for people who are camping in recreational vehicles. Other facilities include an athletic playset, a flower garden, a café and restaurant that serves wild game, a local product shop, and more. Guests can enjoy barbequing or stargazing in the camp’s rich natural setting at an altitude of 750 meters.
  • Hokigamine Forest Park
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    Kouchi Pref. Kamishi Tosayamadachouhirayama
    The only forest park in Kochi Prefecture, you can see not only a view of Pacific Ocean but also the Shikoku mountain range, Kochi Plain and Kacho Plain from the summit. The park is crowded with people enjoying flowers such as wild grasses and flowers, birdwatching, hiking and camping.
  • Kochi Prefectural Tsukimiyama Kodomo no Mori
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    Kochi Konan-shi Kagamicho Kishimoto 1269-7
  • BIGSMILE (Yoshino River, Kochi Prefecture)
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    Kochi Nagaoka-gun
  • Tosa no Kochi no Kudamonobatake
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    Kochi Konan-shi Kagamicho Yamakita Matsu Ke Une 4120-2
    The expansive roughly 67-hectare farm feels like one you'd find in California. They specialize in cultivating safe and healthy mandarin oranges on well cared for land. They have a super early variety available from October 1, and a standard early variety available later until the end of December. The date the farm opens to the public varies from year to year, so check in advance.
  • Ya-Sea Park
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    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.
  • Kami City Art Museum
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    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
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    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.
  • Kizenzan Park
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    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.
  • Montbell Outdoor Challenge Shikoku Yoshino
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    Kochi Nagaoka-gun Motoyamacho Motoyama 2133-1
    Kochi Prefecture's Motoyama Town is surrounded by mountains and is blessed with the Yoshino, Asemi, and other beautiful rivers. The outdoor supplier Montbell opened their Shikoku headquarters there on July 7th, 2019. Enjoy the outdoors to the fullest with bathing facilities, lodging for groups, a restaurant, bathhouse and a stylish cottage that looks out on the Yoshino River.
  • Kohan Apple Orchards
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    Kochi Tosa-gun Tosacho Jizoji 3143
    This apple orchard that cultivates 400 apple trees of ten different varieties over an 8,000 square meter area. From late August to late November, you can enjoy different apples depending on the season. It is also popular with families because you can bring lunch boxes.

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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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