Shrines, museums, parks, and the spots in between, with the access details worked out.
A hilltop park on Hakatajima planted with about a thousand cherry trees, looking out over three of the bridges of the Inland Sea.
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 · EhimeCastle of the Uwajima Date family on a hill in central Uwajima, with one of Japan's twelve surviving keeps, built around 1666.
Uwajima · EhimeHilltop castle on Kameyama, known for stone walls over 20 m high and a keep from 1660, one of the 12 original wooden castle keeps left in Japan.
Marugame · KagawaRuins of the Kono clan's medieval castle in Matsuyama, with two moats and earth ramparts, rebuilt samurai residences and a museum of excavated finds.
Matsuyama · EhimeRuins of the Hachisuka family's castle in central Tokushima, with stone walls of local schist, a rebuilt main gate and a Momoyama-style garden.
TokushimaA Hachiman shrine at Dogo in Matsuyama, said to stand where Emperor Chuai and Empress Jingu stayed, with 1667 buildings that are an Important Cultural Property.
Matsuyama · EhimeKochi shrine listed in the 10th-century Engishiki, with buildings that are a Prefectural Cultural Property and ceiling paintings by 31 manga artists.
Kami · KochiA shrine devoted to the protection of sailors and sea transport, requiring a climb of 785 steps to the main shrine on Mount Zozu.
Kotohira · KagawaMuseum of Tosa washi, the handmade paper of Kochi, with rooms on its history and making, craftsman demonstrations and a papermaking workshop.
Ino · KochiShikoku's only state-run park, 350 hectares of seasonal flowers, lawns, playgrounds and cycling paths, with Shikoku's largest RV campground and a dog run.
Manno · KagawaShinto shrine in Tokushima once worshipped as Ichinomiya Daimyojin, with a richly carved main hall from 1630 that is an Important Cultural Property.
TokushimaJapan's oldest surviving playhouse, built in 1835 and rebuilt on the slope of Mount Atago in 1976, where kabuki is staged every spring.
Kotohira · KagawaThe 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 · EhimeTemple 81 of the Shikoku pilgrimage, on Mt Shiromine in Kagawa, where the exiled Emperor Sutoku was laid to rest after his death in 1164.
Sakaide · KagawaThe only castle in Japan whose honmaru buildings all survive in original form, including the tenshu and the daimyo palace, with no post-war reconstruction.
KochiThe city museum on the site of Tokushima Castle's palace, telling the story of the Tokushima Domain and the Hachisuka family who ruled it.
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