Museum sights in Shikoku
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Date Museum
The well-presented exhibits at the excellent Date Museum are dedicated to the Date family, who ruled Uwajima from the castle for 250 years during the Tokugawa period. The explanations are mostly in Japanese, but a lot of the stuff on display – swords, armour, palanquins and lacquerware – is pretty self-explanatory.
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Kinryō-no-Sato
This sake museum, located along the main approach to the shrine, is in the old premises of a brewery that has owned the building since 1789. At the end of the tour you can try three different Kinryō sakes for ¥100 a glass.
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Museum of Commerce & Domestic Life
A few minutes' walk further north along the main road from Uchiko-za is the Museum of Commerce & Domestic Life, which exhibits historical materials and wax figures portraying a typical merchant scene of the early 20th century.
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Tosa Washi Paper Museum
Make your own Japanese paper for ¥300. At Ino, about 10km west of Kōchi.
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Ehime Museum of Art
The Ehime Museum of Art features rotating exhibitions of 20th-century Japanese art.
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Shiki Memorial Museum
Just south of Matsuyama-shi Station, in the temple grounds of Shōjūzen-ji. Part of the house where famous haiku poet Shiki Masaoka (1867–1902) spent the first 17 years of his life.
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Yuzuki-jō Museum
Excavations have revealed various relics that are on display of the Yuzuki-jō castle, the former residence of the Kōno clan that oversaw Iyo province in feudal times.
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Sakamoto Ryōma Memorial Museum
The Sakamoto Ryōma Memorial Museum tells the life story of this local hero in miniature dioramas.
Although it was the progressive samurai class of Kagoshima and Hagi that played a major part in the dramatic events of the Meiji Restoration, the citizens of Kōchi claim it was their hometown hero Sakamoto who brought the two sides together. His assassination in Kyoto in 1867 at the age of 32 cemented his romantic yet tragic image, and he appears - looking distinctly sour - on countless postcards and other tourist memorabilia in Kōchi.
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