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Festival · Ehime · Shikoku

Niihama Taiko Festival

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

Niihama · 16–18 Oct 2026

Temple · Kagawa · Shikoku

Shiromineji Temple

Temple 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

Festival · Kochi · Shikoku

Okawakami Birafu Shrine Autumn Grand Festival

Featuring an Intangible Folk Cultural Property procession, this November festival unites a community through ceremony, dance, and spiritual communion.

Kami · 3 Nov 2026

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

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Reference rates · 2026/10/13

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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 2026Niihama · Ehime

Festival

Okawakami Birafu Shrine Autumn Grand Festival

Featuring an Intangible Folk Cultural Property procession, this November festival unites a community through ceremony, dance, and spiritual communion.

3 Nov 2026Kami · Kochi

Expo & Convention

YOKAI EXPO 2027

Festival celebrating yokai culture through exhibitions, performances, workshops, and a goods market featuring crafts and interactive activities from across Japan.

22 Feb 2027Shodoshima · Kagawa

Expo & Convention

Kochi Anicre 2026

Kochi's anime festival celebrates the prefecture as an emerging animation hub, attracting thousands of visitors to explore creator collaborations and industry booths.

11–12 Apr 2027 · Dates not yet confirmedKochi

Festival

Doronko Festival

This agricultural ritual held in rice paddies since 1881 celebrates the completion of planting through symbolic mud-covered performances invoking divine blessing for harvest.

5 Jul 2027 · Dates not yet confirmedSeiyo · Ehime

Festival

Uwajima Ushi-Oni Festival

This summer festival in Ehime features giant ushi-oni floats depicting fearsome bull and demon faces, paraded through the streets with traditional music and chants.

22–24 Jul 2027Uwajima · Ehime

Festival

Yosakoi Festival

Every August, Kochi erupts into dance: thousands of performers surging through the streets with clacking naruko, in a carnival that reinvents itself year after year.

9–12 Aug 2027 · Dates not yet confirmedKochi

Festival

Awa Odori Festival

Japan's most famous traditional dance festival, held annually in Tokushima City, where dancers form groups with distinctive choreography and costumes.

12–15 Aug 2027Tokushima

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 2027 · Dates not yet confirmedMatsuyama · Ehime

Historic Site

Tokushima Castle Ruins

This Edo-era castle overlooked the Yoshino River with a central keep atop a 60-meter hill before Meiji-period demolition; the grounds reopened as a park in 1905.

Tokushima

Castle

Uwajima Castle

A historical castle in Uwajima city with an innovative pentagonal moat system, damaged by earthquakes during its centuries of use and occupation by the Date clan.

Uwajima · Ehime

Castle

Yuzuki Castle Ruins

A medieval fortress in Matsuyama designated a Top 100 Castle, preserving rare early Japanese castle architecture that influenced later fortifications throughout the country.

Matsuyama · Ehime

Shrine

Kotohira-gu

A shrine devoted to the protection of sailors and sea transport, requiring a climb of 785 steps to the main shrine on Mount Zozu.

Kotohira · Kagawa

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

Marugame Castle

Seventeenth-century castle with distinctive 20-meter stone walls, rebuilt in 1640 and completed in 1670, ranked among Japan's Top 100 Castles.

Marugame · Kagawa

Event Venue

Konpira Grand Theatre

Japan's oldest surviving Kabuki theatre, constructed in 1835 and restored to Edo-period appearance, hosting major spring programs annually.

Kotohira · Kagawa

Shrine

Ichinomiya Shrine

This Heian-period shrine in Tokushima city venerates two kami and showcases a Momoyama-style main hall built in 1630, designated a National Important Cultural Property.

Tokushima

Park & Garden

Sanuki Manno Park

Shikoku's only state-run park features seasonal flower blooms, playgrounds, cycling paths, and Japan's largest RV campground, welcoming pets in designated areas.

Manno · Kagawa

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

Shiromineji Temple

Temple 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 · Kagawa

Castle

Kochi Castle

Kochi Castle is unique in Japan for retaining all its original structures unchanged, including the original tenshu and palace, never requiring post-war reconstruction.

Kochi

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