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Expo & Convention · Kagawa · Shikoku

YOKAI EXPO

A one-day fair of yokai culture on Shodoshima, with booths from yokai towns across Japan, artists, cosplayers, a fashion show and a parade to Angel Road.

Tonosho · 21 Feb 2027

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

Expo & Convention · Kochi · Shikoku

Kochi Anicre

A two-day anime festival in Kochi with stages by creators, voice actors and cosplayers, hands-on production booths and the Kochi Anime Creator Award ceremony.

Kochi · 11–12 Apr 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

Expo & Convention

YOKAI EXPO

A one-day fair of yokai culture on Shodoshima, with booths from yokai towns across Japan, artists, cosplayers, a fashion show and a parade to Angel Road.

21 Feb 2027Tonosho · Kagawa

Expo & Convention

Kochi Anicre

A two-day anime festival in Kochi with stages by creators, voice actors and cosplayers, hands-on production booths and the Kochi Anime Creator Award ceremony.

11–12 Apr 2027Exact date not confirmed yetKochi

Festival

Doronko Festival

A rice-planting rite of the Doi district in Seiyo, Ehime, in the paddy of Mishima Shrine: oxen in the mud, comic bean planting and saotome dances.

4 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

Yosakoi Festival

A summer dance festival in Kochi City where teams carrying naruko clappers move through the streets behind decorated trucks, with new costumes each year.

9–12 Aug 2027Kochi

Festival

Awa Odori Festival

Tokushima City's summer dance festival, said to be over 400 years old, where groups of dancers called ren fill the streets and stages for five days in August.

11–15 Aug 2027Tokushima

Festival

Matsuyama Dogo Autumn Festival

Autumn shrine festivals across Matsuyama, where teams of bearers drive portable shrines into one another in bouts known as hachiawase.

5–7 Oct 2027Matsuyama · Ehime

Festival

Niihama Taiko Festival

Huge drum floats, about three tonnes each, are carried and raised overhead by teams of about 150 men across Niihama in this October festival.

15–18 Oct 2027Niihama · Ehime

Festival

Okawakami Birafu Shrine Autumn Grand Festival

A shrine festival in Kahoku, Kami, whose Onabare procession, a Kochi Intangible Folk Cultural Property, ends with feathered poles driven into the worship hall.

3 Nov 2027Kami · Kochi

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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

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

Castle

Uwajima Castle

Castle of the Uwajima Date family on a hill in central Uwajima, with one of Japan's twelve surviving keeps, built around 1666.

Uwajima · Ehime

Castle

Marugame Castle

Hilltop 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 · Kagawa

Castle

Yuzuki Castle Ruins

Ruins 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 · Ehime

Historic Site

Tokushima Castle Ruins

Ruins of the Hachisuka family's castle in central Tokushima, with stone walls of local schist, a rebuilt main gate and a Momoyama-style garden.

Tokushima

Shrine

Isaniwa Shrine

A 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 · Ehime

Shrine

Okawakami Birafu Shrine

Kochi shrine listed in the 10th-century Engishiki, with buildings that are a Prefectural Cultural Property and ceiling paintings by 31 manga artists.

Kami · Kochi

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

Museum

Ino Paper Museum

Museum of Tosa washi, the handmade paper of Kochi, with rooms on its history and making, craftsman demonstrations and a papermaking workshop.

Ino · Kochi

Park & Garden

Sanuki Manno Park

Shikoku'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 · Kagawa