高知県 · Shikoku Region

Kochi Hidden Gems

A long Pacific coast backed by forest — Japan's most heavily wooded prefecture, with clear rivers and an outsized drinking culture.

4 spots

Climate & Best Season

Warm, very wet and typhoon-prone; among the highest rainfall in Japan. Summer is hot; spring and autumn are best for rivers.

Befukyo is at the head of the Monobe river in the Tsurugi quasi-national park, an hour and twenty minutes into the mount…

Yasui runs up the north of Niyodogawa town and holds the pool that most people mean when they talk about the colour of t…

On a plateau above Cape Ashizuri, in an area that has produced stone tools and pottery from the early Jomon period aroun…

The phrase Niyodo Blue was coined by a photographer describing this specific pool. Nikobuchi is a plunge basin at the fo…