Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Completed in 1959, this auditor's house is the only postwar building among Niihama's six registered Sumitomo residences. Exterior viewing only at present.

At 295 square meters, this 1935 executive house is the largest of Niihama's six registered Sumitomo residences, clad in vertical boards and white plaster.

The 1937 reception annex of the Besshi mine director's residence greets guests under two stacked entrance roofs and a Western drawing room. Free Sunday tours.

The 1937 main house of the Besshi mine director's residence pairs a zigzag corridor with garden-facing tatami rooms. Niihama's grandest company home survives.

This eight-mat tea room of 1937 sets its alcove post atop a 2.7-meter cabinet with a glowing shoji above, a free-spirited detail. Open Sunday mornings, free.

A 1930 Western-style house at Niihama for the Besshi mine's foreign engineers, designed by Ogawa Yasuichiro. Gabled roof, hipped sunroom; open Sundays, free.

A 1930 Western-style house at Niihama built for foreign engineers of the Besshi copper mine. Hipped roof, projecting sunroom, L-shaped plan; open Sundays, free.

The Former Senjutei Special Room Building in Niihama, Ehime, is a 1937 guest room moved to the Minetopia Besshi mine park in 1991. Free to visit, no ticket.

The Former Takahashi Family Residence Main House in Uchiko, Ehime, dates from about 1951 and was registered in 2024 with its wing, gate, cobble wall and 1827 well.

The Former Ninomiya Sawmill Office and Main House in Oda, Uchiko Town, Ehime Prefecture, is a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property that preserves the forestry heritage of one of Shikoku's most densely forested mountain communities. This combined office-residence tells the story of the timber industry that sustained the Oda district for generations.

In Imabari, Ehime, the Former Nibukawa Elementary School Ninomiya Kinjiro Statue Pedestal is a 3-metre cone of river cobbles built by staff and pupils in 1936.

Discover the Former Hadeba Hydroelectric Power Station in Niihama, Ehime — a registered tangible cultural property built in 1912 with German-made generators, featuring the Orient's greatest water drop of 597 meters. Free admission, open since 2023.

Discover the Former Hiraiso Submarine Cable Landing Station, a registered tangible cultural property in Ikata, Ehime. Built in 1927, this reinforced concrete structure once linked Shikoku and Kyushu via undersea telegraph cables across the Iyo-nada Sea.

Driven in 1893 for the Besshi copper mine railway in Niihama, Ehime, this curving brick bore runs 93 meters, with pilasters and a two-faced keystone at its portal.

Built in 1893 for the Besshi copper mine railway in Niihama, Ehime, this 39-meter German bowstring Warren truss still carries a tourist train over the Ashitanikawa.

On a wooded slope above the Uwa Sea in Ikata, Ehime, the Former Misaki Refinery Kiln preserves 22 Meiji-era copper smelting kilns with green schist arches.

A wax merchant's townhouse of about 1869 in Ozu, Ehime, with a 12-metre frontage, deep bracketed eaves and three linked reception rooms on the upper floor.

A late Edo townhouse in Ozu, Ehime, built by the Murakami family to be let. The oldest and lowest of their four buildings, with a railed gallery over the street.

A middle Meiji storehouse behind the Murakami compound in Ozu, Ehime, raised on cut stone against Hijikawa floods and faced with sea-cucumber tiling at the base.

A small late Edo townhouse in Ozu, Ehime, older than the main house beside it and the smallest of the four Murakami buildings, with a railed bay window.

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