| Cape Muroto | |
| Other Name: | 室戸岬 |
| Type: | Cape |
| Map: | Japan Kochi Prefecture#Japan |
| Relief: | 1 |
| Location: | Muroto, Kōchi Prefecture, Japan |
| Coordinates: | 33.2533°N 134.1775°W |
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is a headland at the southeastern tip of the Japanese island of Shikoku, in the city of Muroto, Kōchi Prefecture. Extending into the Pacific Ocean[1] and situated in [2] [3] within Muroto-Anan Kaigan Quasi-National Park,[1] the cape has been designated a Place of Scenic Beauty[4] and the local vegetation a Natural Monument,[5] while the Sound of the Waves at Cape Muroto and is among the 100 Soundscapes of Japan.[6]
On the summit overlooking the cape is Hotsumisaki-ji, the twenty-fourth temple on the Shikoku Pilgrimage,[1] as well as, which started operating in 1899,[7] and a statue of Nakaoka Shintarō.[8]
Due to the subduction of the Philippine Sea Plate beneath the Eurasian Plate in the Nankai Trough, some off the cape, the land around the cape is being uplifted at a rate of to per millennium, at the top end of the world's uplift rates.[2]
Birds observed in the vicinity of the cape include the osprey and blue rock thrush.[9] Marine life in the waters offshore includes the Japanese amberjack, Japanese anchovy, Japanese barramundi, Japanese jack mackerel, Japanese mackerel, Japanese pilchard, Pacific mackerel, Blackfin seabass, three-line grunt, and spear squid.[9]