Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Ehime

Kimura Family Residence Main House, an 1881 merchant house in Mitsu, Matsuyama, keeps its earth-floored passage, boxed stair and tall loft under a tiled roof.

This early Meiji storehouse in Mitsu, Matsuyama, was built for rice, then reopened toward the sea with three tall sash windows and used as a study. Registered 2019.

Built in the early Showa era as a study for the Kimura children, this small wing in Mitsu, Matsuyama, opens its upper east wall toward the harbour. Registered 2019.

The smallest of the four listed Kimura buildings in Mitsu, Matsuyama, this former storeroom became a bathroom in 1914 and keeps its bat-motif tiles. Registered 2019.

Built in 1911 as a merchants' inn in Uwajima, Ehime, this wooden two-story building has a frontage over 20 meters and guest rooms with individual alcove fittings.

A late Edo stone sluice on the shore of Omishima, Ehime, that drained a salt field, its outlet shielded by a wall 8.5 meters long curving seaward against the waves.

Built in 1905 as the sales office for Tobe's Baizan kiln, this merchant house keeps a ten-mat room with a biwa-doko alcove. Registered in 2023, open weekends, free.

This 1905 earthen-walled storehouse shipped Tobe porcelain out of town. A Western roof truss clears the upper floor above a central hoisting well. Registered 2023.

Built in 1925 by a descendant of Ozu's last lord inside the castle's third enclosure, the Former Kato Family Residence Main House is glazed on three sides upstairs.

A late Edo stone wall in Honaicho, Yawatahama, Ehime, running 33 meters. Blue schist set at sharp angles, from before chevron masonry was perfected. Listed 2002.

A late Edo townhouse in Uchiko, Ehime, joined with a 1910 block into one building. Registered in 2024 as a model of design, it now holds a museum of merchant life.

A late Meiji sake storehouse in Uchiko, Ehime, framed with traditional inclined beams instead of a truss. Registered in 2024, it now holds the town history displays.

The youngest building on the Sano family plot in Uchiko, Ehime, built around 1932. Its high rooms and glazed veranda mark it as an early Showa detached wing.

A late-Taisho retirement house beside the Shimohaga main house in Uchiko, its timber chosen room by room, with figured wood for the alcove posts. Registered 2007.

A mid-Meiji merchant house in Uchiko with a nineteen-metre frontage, white and grey plaster in contrast, and a carved crane on the gable. Now a soba restaurant.

An early Showa pier at Shono, Ikata, Ehime, built to land materials for the Hoyo Fortress. Twenty-four columns, 73 meters, known as the battleship jetty.

In Matsuyama's old port of Mitsuhama, this late-Taisho merchant house sets Western scrollwork against a lattice front and a ceramic transom within. Now a cafe.

Built in 1963 behind the Suzuki main house in Mitsuhama, this annex holds a six-mat tea room that keeps its crawl-through door yet opens one side to the garden.

Built in 1935 for a Sumitomo Chemical manager in Niihama, this registered house splits guest and family space with a central tatami corridor. Free Sunday tours.

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

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