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Kochi Kure Taishomachi Ichiba Market & Ino-cho Paper Museum
Joined 2019
Kure Taishomachi Ichiba Market is the most famous and popular fish market in Kochi. It sells quite fresh and delicious fish at reasonable prices. You can enjoy chatting with generous and openhearted sellers. You will visit Ino-cho Paper Museum where you learn the history & culture of washi and Japanese handmade paper. And you can enjoy making your own original washi with the help of instructors. You can enjoy seeing rural and beautiful scenes while you are taking streetcars and trains.
Itinerary
This itinerary can be customized to meet your needs and preferences. Send me a message with your requests!
Meeting Point
Your hotel in Kochi city
Your hotel in Kochi city
Start of this tour
Ino-cho Paper Museum
Walking through the museum & Paper making At Ino-cho Paper Museum you can know the history and culture of washi, its raw materials and its tools. Tosa washi has a history of more than 1,000 years. You can see washi making demonstration by experts and enjoy making your own original paper. Tosa washi is highly evaluated not only in Japan but also all over the world. You can understand the reason during this tour.
Restaurant at Kure of Nakatosa Town
Let's enjoy lunch which includes various specialty of the town. After you choose your favorite fish, fishermen’s wives cook them and serve you the delicious dishes. If you’re not sure what type of fish you’re looking at, feel free to ask the friendly shop owners. Interacting with the community is part of the beauty and fun of the market!
Kure Taishomachi Ichiba Market
Let’s walk through the market and enjoy chatting with the local sellers. For over 100 years, Kure Taishomachi Ichiba Market of Nakatosa Town has been the community’s beloved shopping arcade for all kinds of foods, including freshly-caught seafood, home cooked side dishes, vegetables and fruit.
Nishioka Sake Brewery, Kochi’s oldest sake brewery
There you can watch traditional tools to make sake and taste its own sake before you buy it.
small streets of this fishing village
You can watch the daily life of the ordinary people and traditional Japanese houses while you are strolling through the village. Many places of this town were used as the scenes in a famous Japanese Manga, “Tosa-no-Ippon Zuri”. And the seaport was used as a scene of an animation, “Umi-ga Kikoeru”. When you use public transportation in urban area, you see only buildings and busy streets. But, during this tour you can see the unexpected scenes which are natural, nostalgic and beautiful. Why don’t you encounter these unforgettable scenes during this tour?
Your hotel in Kochi city
End of this tour
Ending Point
Your hotel in Kochi city
Want to personalize this tour?
This tour can be customized to meet your needs and preferences. Click below to send me a message with your requests.
Inclusions & Exclusions
guide fee
The followings are paid in cash on the day of the tour.
transportation fee: the streetcar ticket (you and the guide) 480 yen per person
the train ticket (you and the guide) 3710 yen per person
entrance fee (you and the guide): Ino-cho Paper Museum 500 yen per person
paper making (you):400 yen per person
lunch (you and the guide) : about 1000 yen per person
Tour Important Information
In Kochi city the public transportation system is not well-developed, but this time we use streetcars and trains. If necessary, there are some occasions where we use a private taxi. Please be sure to wear appropriate footwear and clothing for your own safety and comfort. In Kochi, there are many places where you can’t use your credit cards, for example, some ticket windows or shops, so please exchange your dollars for Japanese yen before coming to Kochi. Travel insurance is not included in our tours. I would recommend you take out your own travel insurance just in case of any unexpected accident, loss, or damaging others' property. You can find the counter of a few insurance companies at the airport when you arrive.
Important message from the supplier
I can guide you in any place of Kochi prefecture if you pay my transportation fee.
Cancellation Policy
- Free cancellation - 8 days prior to meeting time
- 50% Refund - 3 to 7 days prior to meeting time
- No Refund - Within 2 day(s) prior to meeting time
Joined 2019
About Tour Guide Kosuke K.
Hello, my future guests.
My name is Kosuke.
I have lived in Kochi for 62 years with my wife and two daughters.
I used to work at high schools as an English teacher.
I chose the job because I like telling the students about the joy of communicating with foreign people.
Now I'm very happy, because I can work for foreign visitors as a licensed guide. As I know Kochi very well, I can show you various nature, traditional culture, local foods and so on. In every place you visit, I’ll explain how local people live there, because I have lots of acquaintances who want to tell the good points of their neighborhoods. When you join my tours, I’ll try to customize them to suit what you call for as a traveler. And I am confident I can entertain you in various ways.
So click me if you like. I'm looking forward to meeting you soon.
Reviews
Holly M.
Kochi Castle, Makino Botanical Garden and Meditation
“Above and Beyond”
Kosuke was an excellent guide and I wouldn't hesitate to book another tour with him. He's someone who really loves to guide and it shows. Hopefully we'll be back and he can show us around some new places. We enjoyed Kochi Castle, an amazing lunch, the botanical garden (even though it was fall and not in full bloom, it was still beautiful) and the Chikurinji Temple where the teens got to ring a bell and pray at a Buddhist shrine. Kosuke was an excellent resource for learning the differences between Buddhist and Shinto. Thank you so much, Kosuke! From the oranges to the beautiful papers, you really spoiled us by going above and beyond, and we'd love to tour with you again.
Kosuke K.
(6 reviews)Thank you so much for your wonderful, thoughtful and warm review! You are the youngest group that I have ever guided before. You are very active, for example, all members walked faster than I. So, I think that if I were ten years younger, I could have taken your family to more places. However, I am relieved to know that you enjoyed the tour in Kochi. And thank you very much for listening to my explanations about the sightseeing spots eagerly. I respect the elder daughter, because she has learned Japanese language and cultures with enthusiasm. And I really enjoyed talking with her in Japanese. Please continue to learn them! The younger daughter is very kind, because she was worried about me when I coughed so much. Thank you! If your family will visit Kochi again in the future, I want your husband to drink other local sakes. And I have to apologize to you, because I couldn’t find a wonderful rice bowl for you. I will get more information about it until you visit my hometown again. Then, I will be able to tell you where to find delicious rice bow. Therefore, please be sure to visit my hometown, Kochi, again in the future. Thank you again and have wonderful Christmas holidays!
Alan K.
Kochi Half Day Tour of Nichiyouichi and Hirome Ichiba
“A Bite of Kochi City”
We had so much fun with Kosuke as he shared the heart of his home town with us. We took our time wandering through the Sunday Market, at more than 300 years old the oldest in Japan. Kosuke helped us interact with the stall owners and negotiated a lot of free tastes of their products. He particularly concentrated on the foods that we native and unique to Kochi so that we could begin to appreciate the sources of the local cuisine. He had also done some investigation ahead of time and found a vendor of high-quality chefs’ knives for me. We toured Kochi castle, learned an enormous amount and laughed a lot. Kosuke has a ready sense of humour and uses his imagination to keep things fresh and interesting. Maybe most enjoyable was having lunch in the food court at Hirome Market. There were all sorts of foods on sale - different tastes and textures. Some featured things we’d seen at the Sunday Market, others were from the sea. But it’s the food court itself that Kosuke wanted us to experience. It’s noisy and boisterous, full of people talking and laughing - exactly the sort of thing you don’t see anywhere else in Japan. As Kosuke said, “This is the real Kochi City”. We’d do it again with him in a heartbeat.
Kosuke K.
(6 reviews)Thank you so much for the nicest and prompt review! During the second day of the tour I really enjoyed talking, laughing and eating with you. It is your curiosity to know anything about Japan that motivated me to guide you happily. First, I worried about the noisy food court, but I’m so relieved to know that you enjoyed eating some local foods. And I was really surprised to know that you were a professional chef and you have much more knowledge about cutting knives than I do. I should have studied more about cutting knives, so I’m sorry for that. Anyway, have a wonderful journey in Japan! And I wish you will return to Canada safely. And, I want to add one more comment. I really enjoyed your very witty jokes. Thanks! And take care!
Alan K.
Kochi Tour to visit the hometown of the guests' grandfather
Customized
“The Gift of a Cultural Identity ”
It is difficult to imagine a better guide than Kosuke. My wife’s grandfather came from a very small town outside Kochi City. In making this booking, we asked Kosuke to take us to this town so we could form an impression of the place where her grandfather grew up. Kosuke did so much more. Beforehand, he found the temple my wife’s grandfather attended. He contacted the priest and the priest confirmed , through old temple records, that this was indeed the family temple. Kosuke was also able to find the family tomb and ancestral house. Kosuke arranged for us to meet with the priest to discuss the family and life in the village. Our visit was so much richer than we had imagined all because of the work Kosuke had done. It brought a large, missing portion of the family history back to life and gave us a direct connection to our ancestor. My wife feels that Kosuke and the priest were able to give her her history and her place in Japan.
Kosuke K.
(6 reviews)Thank you so much for the nicest and prompt review! I’m very happy to know that you could have a direct connection to your ancestors after finishing this tour and your wife could have her history and place in Japan. I will never forget the scene where your wife and you earnestly listened to what the priest talked about your ancestors. It is your eagerness to know your roots that brought you to the real area where your ancestors had lived. I have respected your earnest attitude. When you want to feel the existence of your ancestors’ homeland, please touch the rosary which the priest gave to you. And I will never forget that I enjoyed walking with you in Sunday Market while talking, laughing and eating on the street together. Finally your homeland, Kochi of Japan, is always ready to accept you whenever you want to visit Kochi again. Have a wonderful journey in Japan! And I wish you will return to Canada safely. And, I want to add one more comment. I really enjoyed your very witty jokes. Thanks! And take care!
$235/ per group
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