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The unexpectedly cutest part of shopping at Kochi\u2019s Thursday Market was seeing some fellow shoppers of the very small variety in action.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Kochi City<\/strong>, the capital of Kochi Prefecture, has a local custom where shop vendors set up shop on various streets on different days of the week.\u00a0While the Sunday Market is the biggest in scope and probably the most famous, another version is the Thursday Market<\/strong>, which materializes on\u2013you guessed it\u2013Thursdays, near the Kencho-Mae bus stop in front of Kochi Castle. It\u2019s a place where you can buy locally grown fruits and vegetables from Kochi Prefecture.<\/p>\n On a recent visit, we thought that it might be a bit touristy, but it turned out that there were more locals shopping there than not. Lots of local salarymen also came to buy lunch.<\/p>\n Taking a closer look at the products being sold, we saw plenty of seasonal vegetables, including a variety of the citrus fruits that Kochi is famous for. There were also dried fish, freshly pounded mochi, and even vegetables that we didn\u2019t know the names of. It was fun to poke around to see what local treasures we could find.<\/p>\n We even spotted some so-called \u201ccountryside sushi\u201d, made using the unusual vegetables. It\u2019s apparently a local culinary tradition from the mountainous regions of Kochi.<\/p>\n The market was enjoyable enough to browse through on our own, but before long we caught sight of a group of tiny humans. They looked to be either preschoolers or young elementary school students who were walking around with their teachers and buying goods. From what we could see, a few of them were earnestly chatting with the salespeople to make their own purchases. The cuteness was overwhelming!<\/p>\n It now made sense why we had seen some signs next to food products offering special deals just for kids, like these bags of kiwis or mikan for only 100 yen (US$0.63). It was heartwarming to see how how the city was communally helping to raise its children.<\/p>\n Asking around, it seemed like most people who were born and raised in Kochi had experienced this kind of educational field trip during their school days. It sounded like a very ordinary thing that the locals were fully used to, and we wished that other parts of Japan would take note.<\/p>\n So if you\u2019re in Kochi Prefecture for the annual Yakko Welsh Onion Tossing World Championship<\/a> or to take a boat tour down the Shimanto River<\/a>, you may want to stop by some of the local street markets while you\u2019re at it. You may just see one of the cutest sights of your whole trip.<\/p>\n Market information<\/strong> All images \u00a9 SoraNews24<\/em> The unexpectedly cutest part of shopping at Kochi\u2019s Thursday Market was seeing some fellow shoppers of the very small variety in action.\u00a0 Kochi City, the capital of Kochi Prefecture, has…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/soranews24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/04\/2_f08f69.jpg?w=640\")
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\nThursday Market \/ \u6728\u66dc\u5e02
\nAddress: Kochi-ken, Kochi-shi, Honmachi 5-6, in front of the Kochi Prefectural Government Building
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\nLength: About 200 meters (219 yards)
\nSize: About 65 food stalls
\nDuration: Held every Thursday except January 1st or 2nd
\nHours: Around 6 a.m.-around 2 p.m.
\nWebsite<\/a><\/p>\n
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