This beach on the Pacific Ocean is among the most popular in Shikoku. The Shell Museum Lި٠near the bus stop displays a collection of 100,000 specimens. Open daily. Admission: \500.
The Aquarium on the beach jl °Ω is another attraction. Open daily. Admission: \950(High school studeans: \600)
Looking over the ocean is a statue of Sakamoto Ryoma erected in 1928 by Ryoma admirers on top of asamll hill near the Tosa Fighting Dog Center. On another hill behind is the Ryoma Memorial Museum ³nLOΩ,which was also funded by Ryoma admirers all over the country. High technology is utilized in various ways to introduce his dramatic lifu. (p.124)
Open daily. Admission: \350
@Chikurin-ji Templi@|Ρ@(No.31),situated on top of Godaisan Hill , is one of the biggest of the 88 temples. The main image, Manjisri, the Bodhisattva of wisdom and 19 other Buddhist images in the treasure house are all Important Cultural Properties.
Just next to the temple is Makiko Botanical Garden qμA¨C a@30,000@u garden with 1.200 species, built in memory of the world-famous botanist Mariko
Tomitaro qμxΎY(1862-1957). He was an igosso, too. The self-taught man spent his life traveling to every corner of this country , making a collection of no less than 400.000 specimens, discovering and naming about 1.000 new species, writing a number of books containing his own precise illustrations.
Makino Bunko Libarary qμΆΙin the Garden houses 42.000 volumes from his library, part of which is open to the public. Open daily except December 28 January 3. Admission:\350.
@m @Katsurahama Bus Stop there is the Tosa Fighting Dog Center y²¬’Z^[ where a dog fight is shown when they have an audience of 30 or more. (\1000).
Kochi Prefecture is known for the two types of dogs - the native Tosa Dog as aNatural Monument and the native dogs with mastiffs, bulldogs and St. Bernards.
Here dogs are carefully trained and the game is conducted under strict rules.
A dog that whines or turns its hind to the opponent is judged the loser.
Like sumo wrestlers, the dogs are graded into a hierarchy according to the points they have recently earned.
Ryugado Stalactite Grotto deep in Mt. Sampo is one of the biggest three of its kind in Jpan. Visitors are guided along a 1 km path, about a quarter of the whole grotto,thought to be 150,000,000 years old.
For those who are not claustrophobic, stalactites of various shapes and sizes highlight a narrow maze where falls resound and streams murmur. There are about 100 animal species living in the darkness - bats, shrimp, crabs and so on.
When the grotto was discoverd in 1931, they found not a few relics from the Yayoi Period (roughly 300 B.C.-300 A .D.). In one corner, more than a dozen earthenware vessels remained almost intact, together with some stoneware, animal bones and shells. Another corner had a water jar to collect water dripping from above - now a stalactite.
Open daily: 8:30-16:30 Admission: \850.