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See in Kochi · #7 of the port's ten

Sunday Market (Sundays)

~3.5h — the round trip from the gangway, with the 60-minute margin kept aside.

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Round trip
3 hr 30 min
From the ship and back
Fits
a 4–6 hour stop ashore
Margin already counted
Getting there
City center
¥230 flat
Booking
Just turn up
Nothing to reserve
Why we send people here

Three hundred years old, a kilometer long: yuzu, tomatoes, knives, ginger the size of fists. If your call lands on a Sunday, rearrange everything else around it.

Why it earns the hours
  • It is not only a photo stop: a kilometre long, three hundred years old, every single sunday.
Before you count on it
  • 3 hr 30 min door to door means a 2–3 hour stop ashore cannot hold it. Pick something closer instead.
The story

Why Sunday Market (Sundays) is famous

A kilometre long, three hundred years old, every single Sunday

The Sunday market on Otesuji has run for about three hundred years, since 1690, and stretches roughly a kilometre toward the castle. Around four hundred stalls sell what the sellers grew: yuzu, ginger the size of a fist, knives, seedlings. It only exists on Sundays, and no substitute runs on other days.

It has run since 1690. Roughly 300 stalls stretch a kilometre down the avenue to the castle gate, and it opens every Sunday of the year except two. If your call lands on one, rearrange everything.

1690
The market system begins

Established by the domain so mountain farmers had somewhere to sell

300+ years
Continuous operation

Now closing only for New Year and the August festival

today
~300 stalls over a kilometre

Along Otesuji, ending at the castle gate

Do this

Sundays only, from dawn to mid-afternoon. Walk up to the castle, back down the other side, and finish at Hirome.

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On the signs

Words you will see

Nichiyō-ichi日曜市
The Sunday Market. Locals treat it as a weekly appointment, not an attraction.
Imo-ten芋天
Sweet-potato fritters, fried on the spot. The thing to eat.
Ice crinアイスクリン
The pale street sherbet sold from cool boxes. Kochi is sentimental about it.
Otesuji追手筋
The avenue the market fills, running to the castle gate.
Where it is

Sunday Market (Sundays) and your ship

Both pins on one map, so the distance is a fact rather than a feeling.

The day this belongs to

Routes that already include it

Each one is a finished day we have walked and timed, with this stop in it. Read the route rather than assembling it yourself.

The rainy-day KochiA wet day · ~4h door to doorWet weather — Kochi rains hard, and the market is roofedThe castle glimpse2–3 hours · ~3h door to doorShort calls from a far berth — one target, done wellCastle & market, unhurried4–6 hours · ~5h door to doorThe city’s two anchors with the lunch they deserveThe Katsurahama loop8 hours or more · ~7h door to doorLate-stay calls only — the yatai open at ~18:00
Pairs well with

What to put beside it

Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare.

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Eat · ~3h via shuttle

Katsuo tataki, flame-seared

Bonito seared over burning straw, salted, and eaten before the smoke clears — Kochi’s defining dish done theatrically at Myojinmaru’s Hirome Market stall.

See the detail →See · ~3.5h

Kochi Castle

One of only twelve original castles — keep, gates and palace all survived.

See the detail →See · ~3h

Hirome Market

Sixty stalls, shared tables, day-drinking locals who will toast you — Kochi’s living room.

See the detail →
The one rule: be back on board 60 minutes before all-aboard. Build the whole day on the Kochi plan page.