Kuroshio-cho merges "Ogatacho" and "Sagacho" in Hata-gun, Kochi Prefecture, with the slogan "People are fine, nature is fine, and the area is fine." It was born as a new town on March 20, 2006.
The town is located in the southwestern part of Shikoku and serves as the gateway to Hata-gun in western Kochi Prefecture.
The climate is an average annual temperature of 17 degrees Celsius and a rainfall of around 2,800 mm. Utilizing the warm and rainy climate unique to this southern country, farming mainly on greenhouse horticulture, flowers, and rice farming, and cultivation of shimeji and shiitake mushrooms are also carried out. In addition, the Tosa bonito single-line fishing fishery, which is operated steadily in this area using traditional Japanese fishing methods, is thriving, and in recent years completely sun-dried salt has also become a representative specialty.
In the small Machi with a population of less than 10,000, there is only one museum in the world and probably the largest in the world. It says, “Our Machi has no museum. The beautiful sandy beach is an art museum. The 4km sandy beach with the concept is a "art museum". In addition to the natural scenery such as beautiful Matsubara and whales swimming offshore, drifting objects, people playing on the beach and living activities, early summer's "T-shirt art exhibition", "seaside hadashi marathon", autumn "sea breeze quilt exhibition" You can enjoy works that you freely find in each area, such as special exhibitions such as "
Starting from a 4km sandy beach, this museum in Machi now makes this Machi itself an art museum.
In Kuroshio-cho, where the coastline with beautiful sandy beaches and beaches and lush mountains spread, Malin activities such as whale watching and sea kayaking surfing utilizing natural resources, `` sun salt making '' and `` bonito '' where you can feel the blessings of the sea Many people come from inside and outside the prefecture due to the promotion of hands-on sightseeing such as "making" and sports tourism utilizing Tosaseinan Daikibo Park.
We are also focusing on disaster prevention tourism that conveys disaster prevention culture raised in Machi, where the largest tsunami height in Japan is expected to be 34 meters.
What kind of place is Kuroshio?
Located in the southwest of Kochi Prefecture, Kuroshio has a thriving industry for pole-and-line fishing of Tosa skipjack tuna, which uses traditional Japanese fishing methods tracing back to ancient times. In recent years, sun-dried salt has also become a popular specialty product.
Agriculture is also flourishing in Kuroshio, with cultivation of shimeji and shiitake mushrooms, flowers, and paddy rice. Kuroshio is a small town of only 11,000 people.
There is no art gallery in the town of Kuroshio. Instead, the expansive 4km stretch of beautiful beach serves as the backdrop for Kuroshiro’s Seaside Gallery. The beautiful pine grove and whales that can be seen in the ocean are artworks, as are the children running barefoot on the beach looking for shells, the people surfing, and the footprints of birds. In addition, the seasonal events of the t-shirt art exhibition, the barefoot seaside marathon and the salt-breeze quilt exhibition are well worth the visit to Kuroshiro to discover a work of art.
Activities in Kuroshio
You can experience many cultural and historical activities in Kuroshio: making Kochi’s traditional dish of straw-seared skipjack tuna, in which you clean the skipjack tuna and then straw-sear it; making Wakayama Kozo (paper mulberry) washi in a production area of paper mulberry, a raw material used for making washi, that is regarded as the highest quality in Japan; making local sushi, using ingredients such as wild vegetables from the forest; and making sun-dried salt, which is made from seawater using only the power of the sun and wind. As Kuroshio faces the Pacific Ocean, you can also enjoy marine activities such as sea kayaking, whale watching, surfing and fishing.
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Sightseeing spots in Kuroshio
Irino Beach, which hosts the Seaside Gallery, is known as the “Lake Uyuni of Kochi,” and the water mirror phenomenon often occurs. When this mirror-world appears during the t-shirt art exhibition, you can witness the magical scenery of the t-shirts reflecting over the water. Running along the Irino coastline is a beautiful landscape of hundreds of thousands of black pines at the center of a forest reserve, which were cultivated in the Chosokabe Motochika era.
In the Saga district, the Shioya Beach offers a different scenery from Irino, with a white, wonderful view and many shells washed up that you can enjoy collecting.
Food in Kuroshio
As Kuroshio’s most famous export is Tosa skipjack tuna pole-and-line fishing, if you visit Kuroshi, you have to try the seared skipjack tuna. In Kuroshio, you can enjoy seared skipjack tuna with the local specialty of sun-dried salt. We recommend changing the taste with a dipping sauce as well.
Fish in Kuroshio is extremely fresh, so you can taste incredibly fresh sashimi and other seafood.
Kuroshio has a strong image of seafood, but there are also many local mountain products, such as delicious vegetables and edible wild plants.
Accommodation in Kuroshio
Kuroshio has many hotels with panoramic views of the ocean, as well as cottage rentals and guesthouses that are renovated old Japanese-style homes with a charming Japanese feel to them. You can have fun with your friends or relax with your family.
There are also campgrounds next to the beaches, so you can enjoy a range of activities such as surfing, swimming and fishing.
Why don’t you take a break from your daily life, forget about time and relax in Kuroshio?
Kuroshio Town Tourism Network Corporation
