Brief introduction of Kochi Prefecture.
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 Kochi Prefecture

 City
 1.Kochi city

 Famous sightseeing
 1.Kochi castle
 2.Godaisan
 3.Katsura hama
 4.Monet's garden
 5.Shimanto river

Kochi_Prefecture

Area : 7,105 km2
Population : 796,196
The area is the largest in four prefectures of Shikoku Island, but most of the area is mountain. The north of Kochi Prefecture is surrounded by mountains (the Shikoku mountains) and the south direction faces to the Pacific Ocean.
For visit to neighbor prefecture, we use the superhighway or train, and for visit to Osaka or Tokyo, we use airplane. It takes just a little over 1 hour to go to Tokyo using airplane.
The capital of Kochi Prefecture is Kochi City.

Special products of Kochi Prefecture
Vegetables : tomato, green pepper, ginger, small sweet green pepper, myoga (I can not spell in English) Japanese Sake ( traditional Japanese alcohol made from rice) Tataki of a skipjack (tataki ; lightly grilled, then chopped meat or fish)
This article is on the writing.

 Foods

 Various goods made in  Kochi
 1.coral
 2.Tosa_washi
 3.the other