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Festival · Ehime · Shikoku

Matsuyama Dogo Autumn Festival

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

Matsuyama · 5–7 Oct 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

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

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

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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 2026Matsuyama · 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 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

Food Fair

Marugame Udon Festival

The Marugame Udon Festival celebrates Sanuki udon through immersive culinary experiences highlighting this Kagawa regional speciality's place in Japan's noodle culture.

21–22 Nov 2026Marugame · Kagawa

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 2027Kochi

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 2027Seiyo · Ehime

Sport & Competition

Hiwasa Umigame Triathlon

This annual triathlon in Tokushima combines a coastal swim at a sea turtle nesting site with cycling and running through scenic landscapes.

19 Jul 2027Minami · Tokushima

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 2027Kochi

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

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

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

Shrine

Yuge Shrine

A 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 · Ehime

Museum

Ikazaki Kite Museum

A museum in Uchiko, Ehime, devoted to kites from Japan and around the world, in the town that holds a kite battle every May.

Uchiko · Ehime

Castle

Ozu Castle

A 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 · Ehime