Sakawa Town

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Sakawa Town, located west of Kochi City, is a history-emotion rich cultural town that flourished during the Edo period as a castle town for the Fukao family, chief retainers of the Tosa domain, where beautiful white plaster-walled merchant houses and old sake breweries line up orderly. Housing the master brewery of "Tsukasa-botan," a premium sake boasting one of Japan's oldest histories and having won global accolades, you can experience the deep history and craftsman culture of traditional Japanese sake making firsthand. It is also famous as the birth land of world-renowned botanist Dr. Tomitaro Makino, with a beautiful spirit loving plants living throughout the town. Within a natural silence that has not been excessively commercialized, it stands as a hidden famous spot to deeply immerse yourself in traditional aesthetics while slowly strolling past beautiful Meiji-period Western buildings and retro lanes.