A Look at Kochi · The Japan Travel Writer's Podcast · Radar

Shikoku’s Remote Appeal0:55 – 4:13

0:55

Yeah, and Shikoku certainly has a slightly different feel to the other parts of Japan, doesn't it? It's traditionally been much more sort of remote and cut off.

1:06

Until the huge bridges were built, you could only get there by boat or ferry, couldn't you?

1:13

Yeah, yeah.

1:13

They're nice bridges, though.

1:14

They're very

1:15

scenic.

1:16

Oh, the bridges are great.

1:17

They really are like one of the wonders of Japan, really, aren't they?

1:21

Mm hmm.

1:21

There's one of them that the the night train from Tokyo goes over.

1:25

Oh, yeah.

1:27

And it's I guess it's about six o'clock or six thirty in the morning by the time it's arriving into Shikoku and it goes over the bridge and then into Takamatsu.

1:37

And that's such a nice view to wake up to.

1:40

yeah it's it's also good like if you get the ferry like along the inland sea i've done that a few times going like from Osaka to Kyushu and places um the ferry passes under these huge bridges and it's kind of just surreal to you know be at sea but go under a bridge on a huge ship i

1:59

don't think i've i don't think i've ever been oh no i have where where are the um the whirlpools That's Tokushima, isn't it?

2:09

Yeah,

2:10

yeah.

2:10

So I've been out around there.

2:13

You do go under some bridges around that area, I think.

2:16

Yeah,

2:16

there's two big ones linking Shikoku to Awaji and then Awaji to the mainland.

2:21

Yeah, so basically there are There are four prefectures, and I always think of it in terms of each of the prefectures' major cities.

2:30

So Ehime is Matsuyama, Kagawa is Takamatsu, Tokushima conveniently is Tokushima, and Kochi also conveniently is is Kochi City.

2:41

So we're going to talk today about Kochi only, aren't we?

2:44

Yeah, I think so.