Shrines, museums, parks, and the spots in between, with the access details worked out.
A museum on Oshima in the Inland Sea about the Murakami, the sea lords who controlled the straits around Imabari in the sixteenth century.
Imabari · 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 in Uchiko, Ehime, devoted to kites from Japan and around the world, in the town that holds a kite battle every May.
Uchiko · EhimeA villa above the Hiji River at Ozu, built over ten years by a wax merchant and counted a masterpiece of sukiya building.
Ozu · 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 · 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 · 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 lookout by Kuma Kengo on a hill at the south end of Oshima in the Inland Sea, facing the three linked suspension bridges of the Kurushima Strait.
Imabari · 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 · 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 museum of modern yokai art in the Meiro no Machi quarter of Shodoshima, with more than 800 works tracing yokai from ancient animism to today.
Tonosho · KagawaA hot spring town in Matsuyama centred on the Dogo Onsen Honkan bathhouse, with water from 18 sources served neither heated nor diluted.
Matsuyama · EhimeKami City museum on Yanase Takashi, the creator of Anpanman, made up of the Anpanman Museum and a gallery of his covers for the magazine Shi to Meruhen.
Kami · KochiA water-droplet-shaped museum on Teshima Island by artist Rei Naito and architect Ryue Nishizawa, a pillar-free interior space open to wind, light and sound.
Tonosho · KagawaAn open-air film set on Shodoshima island, built for the 1987 film of Twenty-Four Eyes, with a literary museum, a cinema and exhibits on 1950s Japanese film.
Shodoshima · KagawaHall founded in 1999 at the foot of Mount Bizan, with daily Awa Odori dance performances, a museum on the history of the dance and the Mt. Bizan ropeway.
TokushimaHilltop castle in central Matsuyama with one of the twelve original castle keeps in Japan, completed in 1854, and 21 Important Cultural Properties.
Matsuyama · EhimeA daimyo stroll garden in Takamatsu at the foot of Mount Shiun, completed in 1745, with six ponds, 13 hills and about 1,400 pine trees.
Takamatsu · Kagawa
