Culture
Near the port in Imabari (今治市, Imabari-shi) is a huge, beautifully made ship’s propeller displayed as sculpture. It looks ...
Ozu (大洲, Ōzu) is sometimes referred to as Ehime’s ‘Little Kyoto’. I have no idea why, because they’re as unalike as any two...
To most Japanese people, Tobe (砥部) calls to mind Tobe-yaki, a type of ceramic known throughout Japan. People tend to imagin...
Uwajima is the southernmost city in Ehime. It’s a compact city, centered around a small castle on a hill. Above the city towe...
Matsuyama is the capital city of Ehime Prefecture and the largest city in Shikoku. Its name means “pine mountain”. Matsuyama ...
In Japan, the names for municipalities bear scant resemblance to entities of the same name in the west. So in Japan, a ‘villa...
Matsuno is a pretty little settlement in Ehime near the border with Kochi. Once a very quiet backwater of the celebrated Shim...
The city of Saijo sits on a plain facing the Seto Inland Sea, with the imposing Mt. Ishizuchi behind it. Saijo is sandwiched ...
Yawatahama is a sleepy port town in the armpit of Japan’s longest peninsula, the Sadamisaki Peninsula that juts out of the we...
In Japan, the names for municipalities bear scant resemblance to entities of the same name in the west. So a place that is no...
Niihama City in Ehime Prefecture is a bustling industrial city of 124,000 people on the north coast of Shikoku. Although the ...
Kuma Highland—Kuma Kōgen in Japanese—is a large inhabited area at a high elevation in central Ehime bordering Kochi Prefectur...
Uchiko is small town that lies to the southwest of Matsuyama. It stands at the bottom of a river valley with rice fields spre...
Toon City, pronounced Tō-on, is a city in name only. There’s no built-up center to it at all, which may seem strange to peopl...
Hojo is the northernmost part of Matsuyama. Once a separate municipality with the rank of ‘city’, it merged with Matsuyama in...
Niihama Drum Festival is one of the top three festivals in Ehime Prefecture, Shikoku — an autumn taiko festival celebrating t...
Tsubaki Matsuri is one of Matusyama's most popular festivals, and one that is unique to the region.
The Matsuyama Spring Festival is held during the first weekend in April when the cherry blossoms are in bloom. There’s a para...
Kurazen provides tasty Japanese izakaya dishes in a traditional-style warehouse building near Imabari Castle.
Nagasaka Restaurant in Matsuyama is a Japanese-style restaurant with a stylish retro interior
This business hotel with public bath offers basic comfort at the foot of Uwajima Castle.
Furuiwayaso offers basic accommodation with hot spring bath in a remote mountainous part of Ehime Prefecture. It's close to I...
Spa Ryokan Dougoya offers budget accommodation in Dogo with the atmosphere of a traditional ryokan.
This business hotel with public bath offers basic comfort at the foot of Uwajima Castle.
Furuiwayaso offers basic accommodation with hot spring bath in a remote mountainous part of Ehime Prefecture. It's close to I...
Ehime's Sotodomari Ishigaki-no-sato is a historic stone-walled village by the sea in southwest Shikoku.
