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Festival · Kochi · Shikoku

Okawakami Birafu Shrine Autumn Grand Festival

Featuring an Intangible Folk Cultural Property procession, this November festival unites a community through ceremony, dance, and spiritual communion.

Kami · 3 Nov 2026

Shrine · Kochi · Shikoku

Okawakami Birafu Shrine

A revered Kochi shrine with 10th-century origins, featuring a prefectural cultural property hall and an annual autumn festival.

Kami

Expo & Convention · Kochi · Shikoku

Kochi Anicre

Kochi's anime festival presents the prefecture as an emerging animation hub, drawing thousands of visitors to creator collaborations and industry booths.

Kochi · 11–12 Apr 2027

Museum · Kochi · Shikoku

Yanase Takashi Memorial Hall Anpanman Museum

Kami City museum on Yanase Takashi, the creator of Anpanman, made up of the Anpanman Museum and a gallery of his covers for the magazine Shi to Meruhen.

Kami

Kochi

Festival

Okawakami Birafu Shrine Autumn Grand Festival

Featuring an Intangible Folk Cultural Property procession, this November festival unites a community through ceremony, dance, and spiritual communion.

3 Nov 2026Kami · Kochi

Expo & Convention

Kochi Anicre

Kochi's anime festival presents the prefecture as an emerging animation hub, drawing thousands of visitors to creator collaborations and industry booths.

11–12 Apr 2027Exact date not confirmed yetKochi

Festival

Yosakoi Festival

Every August, Kochi fills with dance: thousands of performers move through the streets with clacking naruko, in a carnival that reinvents itself each year.

9–12 Aug 2027Exact date not confirmed yetKochi

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Museum

Yanase Takashi Memorial Hall Anpanman Museum

Kami City museum on Yanase Takashi, the creator of Anpanman, made up of the Anpanman Museum and a gallery of his covers for the magazine Shi to Meruhen.

Kami · Kochi

Museum

Ino Paper Museum

Museum of Tosa washi, the handmade paper of Kochi, with rooms on its history and making, craftsman demonstrations and a papermaking workshop.

Ino · Kochi

Shopping

Kure Taishomachi Ichiba Market

Arcade and open-air market in the fishing town of Kure, begun by fishermen's wives in the Meiji period and selling the local catch, vegetables and fruit.

Nakatosa · Kochi

Shopping

Hirome Market

Indoor market in central Kochi, opened in 1998, where more than 50 shops sell local food, drink, fresh fish and souvenirs.

Kochi

Shrine

Okawakami Birafu Shrine

A revered Kochi shrine with 10th-century origins, featuring a prefectural cultural property hall and an annual autumn festival.

Kami · Kochi

Museum

Ekin Museum

Museum in Akaoka holding the 23 theatre screens by the Tosa painter Ekin, shown in a dimmed room modelled on the summer festival night.

Konan · Kochi

Castle

Kochi Castle

The only castle in Japan whose honmaru buildings all survive in original form, including the tenshu and the daimyo palace, with no post-war reconstruction.

Kochi