Tosa Ichihara Market: A Roadside Station Where Direct Sales and Food Culture are Concentrated

Kochi Roadside Stations: Rest Spots Concentrating Tosa's Food Culture

Numerous attractive roadside stations are scattered throughout Kochi Prefecture, popular with travelers as places to easily enjoy each region's food culture, agricultural products, and processed goods. Since Kochi is also a treasure trove of ingredients, roadside station touring is one of the important pleasures of Kochi travel.

Representative Kochi Roadside Stations

Popular roadside stations with distinctive local characteristics include "Roadside Station Tosa Sameura" (near a large dam lake in the upper Niyodo River), "Roadside Station Shimanto Tōwa" (enjoy clear streams along the Shimanto River), "Roadside Station Bios Ogata" (Kuroshio Town, latest agricultural experience facility), and "Roadside Station Aguri Kubokawa" (local products from Shimanto Town with thriving agriculture).

Seasonal Agricultural Products

Kochi has abundant agricultural products throughout the year. Seasonal produce includes spring ginger (Kochi is Japan's leading ginger production area) and early eggplants, summer watermelon and myoga ginger, autumn yuzu and mikan, and winter Chinese cabbage and broccoli.

Tosa Local Food Products

At roadside stations, Kochi specialties unique to Kochi can be purchased including "jyakoten (fish cake tempura)," "imo-ten (sweet potato tempura)," "boshi pan (Kochi-unique bread)," "shio-kenpi (salted sweet potato karinto)," and "yuzu processed products."

Access

Numerous roadside stations are scattered along main roads throughout Kochi Prefecture. Ideal as drop-in spots when touring the prefecture by rental car.