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Kochi City

Feature Articles 

Welcome to the “Manga Kingdom” of Kochi!

2017/08/062017/08/08 EPIC 2017 Art, Kochi City

All across Japan, about 1,500 high school students are making their pens fly across the page in order to qualify

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Our Town, Aterano Asahi

2017/08/022017/08/08 EPIC 2017 Kochi City, Social Problems

“Welcome! Please relax and have a seat.” Women smiling gently were serving coffee and there was full of joyful chatting.

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Hirome Ichiba: a fantastic place to enjoy Kochi culture

2017/08/022017/08/06 EPIC 2017 drinking, Kochi Castle, Kochi City, Local Cuisine

The smiling maneki-neko always welcomes visitors to Hirome Ichiba in Obiyamachi, Kochi city. “Irassyaimase! Ikagadeshoka?” (Welcome! Would you like to

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Feature Articles 

Kochi Castle Museum of History, where the people and history of Tosa meet

2017/08/022017/08/06 EPIC 2017 History, Kochi Castle, Kochi City, Nichiyoichi

Treasures are shining and lighting the road to travel through the history of Tosa in the dark and quite space.

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The Embassy of Kochi: Katsuo-Guesthouse

2017/08/022017/08/06 EPIC 2017 Kochi City, Tourism

Everyone around the table is smiling and laughing. This evening, three young female backpackers are just back from sightseeing, and

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The Toden Densha line: the heart of Kochi City

2014/08/032015/12/09 EPIC 2014 Gomen, Ino, Kochi City

The Toden densha line in Kochi is an essential part of the life of the city and runs from Gomen to the

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Feature Articles 

A birthplace of smiles, “Obiyamachi”

2013/07/302015/12/09 2013 EPIC Kochi City, Obiyamachi

“Hey, Let’s go to the Aeon!” I said to Satoru-kun. I remember it was a cold day on 23rd December

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Tosa’s Sunday Market: The most heartful market in Japan

2013/07/302016/02/05 2013 EPIC Kochi Castle, Kochi City, Local Cuisine, Local Products, sunday market

One clear sunny day in June, I decided to go to Sunday Market by bike. Before I got there, I

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Feature Articles 

Why you’ll love Kochi Castle

2013/07/302015/12/09 2013 EPIC Kochi Castle, Kochi City, women

On a sunny day in the morning, I go to a Kochi castle by bicycle from my house. It takes

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Feature Articles 

Welcome to Sawa-man

2013/07/302016/02/05 2013 EPIC Architecture, Kochi City

After a heavy rain in the evening, people are heading up a big slope to go back to their apartments.

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Feature Articles 

Gendai Kigyosya: loved in Kochi

2013/07/302016/02/05 2013 EPIC Kochi City, Obiyamachi

About 55 years ago, one couple opened a café at a street corner in Kochi. The café, named “Chopin”, was

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Wanpa-ku Kochi

2013/07/292016/12/28 2013 EPIC Kochi City

One day in 1993, all of the animals in a zoo which was near the Kochi castle moved to another

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Restaurant Guide 

Toriden

2012/07/192012/07/19 Michael Sharpe Kochi City

TORIDEN is a chicken restaurant at Honmachi near Kochi castle. It is large and has the appearance of an Izakaya. It

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