KOCHI SHIKOKU JAPAN: A Bicycle City
I recently spent several days in Kochi Japan, a city of around 400,000 population on the mainly rural Island of Shikoku. Shikoku is the smallest and least populated of the four main Japanese Islands, but still has more people than all of New Zealand. The climate is not unlike that of Northland. The Island is about 200 km wide and between 120 and 80 km from top to bottom. There are four big cities on Shikoku all around 400,000, and Kochi is on the South side of the island.