Aki Nora-dokei and Doi Kachu

**The clock is a homemade object.** Hatakeyama built it in 1887 after dismantling an imported clock to learn how one worked, with no training. That fact is the reason to look at it rather than photograph it and move on. **Go into the Nomura residence.** It is the oldest building in the district, dates from around 1830, is open and costs nothing. The rest of the quarter is private houses. **Look at the hedges.** Tosa samurai districts use clipped bamboo and stone rather than the plaster walls of other regions. Once seen it distinguishes this from Izumi or Chiran. **Park at the clock.** The car park beside the Nora-dokei is the practical base and the quarter is five minutes north on foot. **Aki is on the Gomen-Nahari line.** The Tosa Kuroshio Railway runs along this coast from Kochi, which makes the town reachable without a car, though it is a thirty-minute walk from the station.