Shrines, museums, parks, and the spots in between, with the access details worked out.
Hilltop castle in central Matsuyama with one of the twelve original castle keeps in Japan, completed in 1854, and 21 Important Cultural Properties.
Matsuyama · EhimeA museum on towels and textile art in Imabari, with permanent Moomin and Kathy Nakajima quilt exhibitions, a towel factory tour and a large seasonal garden.
Imabari · EhimeA Shinto shrine in Matsuyama with roots in a visit by Emperor Chuai and Empress Jingu to Dogo Onsen, enshrining multiple emperors as cultural treasures.
Matsuyama · EhimeCastle in Uwajima held by the Date clan, with a pentagonal moat layout that left blind spots for attackers, and damaged by earthquakes over the centuries.
Uwajima · EhimeMedieval castle ruins in Matsuyama linked to the Kono clan, with double moats, listed among the Top 100 Castles for their rare early castle architecture.
Matsuyama · EhimeThe forty-fifth temple of the Shikoku pilgrimage, built against cliffs in the mountains of Ehime, where the mountain itself is the object of worship.
Kumakogen · EhimeA mountain temple in Saijo, Ehime, founded in 642, reached by a long approach under maples, with a main hall that is an Important Cultural Property.
Saijo · EhimeThe forty-fourth temple of the Shikoku pilgrimage and its halfway point, standing among old trees at 579 metres in the mountains of Ehime.
Kumakogen · EhimeThe house and works of a wax-making family in Uchiko, Ehime, kept with its boiling sheds and stores, and now a museum of the trade.
Uchiko · EhimeA beach park on the Iyo Sea in Ehime, laid out for watching the sun go down, with stepped seating along the shore and a headland monument.
Iyo · EhimeA hilltop park on Hakatajima planted with about a thousand cherry trees, looking out over three of the bridges of the Inland Sea.
Imabari · EhimeA lookout on a hill at the south end of Oshima in the Inland Sea, built into the summit, facing the three linked suspension bridges of the Kurushima Strait.
Imabari · EhimeA shrine on Yuge Island in the Inland Sea, founded by a branch of the Mononobe clan to their ancestor, with a pine grove and a shallow beach below it.
Kamijima · EhimeA museum in Uchiko, Ehime, devoted to kites from Japan and around the world, in the town that holds a kite battle every May.
Uchiko · EhimeA castle above the Hiji River at Ozu whose keep was rebuilt in wood in 2004, using the old drawings and photographs, alongside four surviving turrets.
Ozu · EhimeA railway museum beside Iyo-Saijo station holding an original bullet train car and the diesel locomotive that worked the lines of Shikoku.
Saijo · EhimeA street of wax merchants' houses in Uchiko, Ehime, with walls in a yellow plaster made from local earth, preserved since 1982.
Uchiko · EhimeA museum on Oshima in the Inland Sea about the Murakami, the sea lords who controlled the straits around Imabari in the sixteenth century.
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