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Festival · Ehime · Shikoku

Doronko Festival

An agricultural ritual held in rice paddies since 1881, marking the end of planting with mud-covered performances that ask for divine blessing on the harvest.

Seiyo · 5 Jul 2027

Area & Points of Interest · Ehime · Shikoku

Garyu Sanso (Villa)

A villa above the Hiji River at Ozu, built over ten years by a wax merchant and counted a masterpiece of sukiya building.

Ozu

Festival · Ehime · Shikoku

Uwajima Ushi-Oni Festival

A summer festival in Uwajima, Ehime, where giant ushi-oni floats with fearsome bull and demon faces parade through the streets to traditional music and chants.

Uwajima · 22–24 Jul 2027

Museum · Ehime · Shikoku

Murakami Suigun Museum

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

Matsuyama

Festival

Doronko Festival

An agricultural ritual held in rice paddies since 1881, marking the end of planting with mud-covered performances that ask for divine blessing on the harvest.

5 Jul 2027Exact date not confirmed yetSeiyo · Ehime

Festival

Uwajima Ushi-Oni Festival

A summer festival in Uwajima, Ehime, where giant ushi-oni floats with fearsome bull and demon faces parade through the streets to traditional music and chants.

22–24 Jul 2027Uwajima · Ehime

Festival

Matsuyama Dogo Autumn Festival

Ancient shrine festival featuring portable shrines carried through Matsuyama's districts in ritual performances believed to enhance spiritual power.

5–7 Oct 2027Exact date not confirmed yetMatsuyama · Ehime

Festival

Niihama Taiko Festival

Towering drum-bearing floats parade through Niihama in this October celebration, drawing nearly 200,000 spectators each year.

16–18 Oct 2027Exact date not confirmed yetNiihama · Ehime

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Castle

Iyo-Matsuyama Castle

Hilltop castle in central Matsuyama with one of the twelve original castle keeps in Japan, completed in 1854, and 21 Important Cultural Properties.

Matsuyama · Ehime

Museum

Towel Museum

A 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 · Ehime

Shrine

Isaniwa Shrine

A 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 · Ehime

Castle

Uwajima Castle

Castle 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 · Ehime

Castle

Yuzuki Castle Ruins

Medieval 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 · Ehime

Temple

Iwayaji Temple

The 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 · Ehime

Temple

Nishiyama Koryuji

A 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 · Ehime

Temple

Daihoji Temple

The forty-fourth temple of the Shikoku pilgrimage and its halfway point, standing among old trees at 579 metres in the mountains of Ehime.

Kumakogen · Ehime

Museum

Kamihaga Residence (Wax Museum)

The 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 · Ehime

Park & Garden

Futami Seaside Park

A 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 · Ehime

Park & Garden

Hirakiyama Park

A hilltop park on Hakatajima planted with about a thousand cherry trees, looking out over three of the bridges of the Inland Sea.

Imabari · Ehime

Observatory

Kirosan Observatory Park

A 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 · Ehime

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