NOTOC There is more than one place called Kochi: Kochi — a city in Kerala, India, earlier known as Cochin Kochi (prefecture) — a prefecture in Japan Kochi (Shikoku) — the eponymous capital of Kochi prefecture on the Japan island of Shikoku Kochi (Chugoku) — a former town in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, now part of Higashihiroshima