Important Cultural Property of Ehime

A Meiji villa on a cliff above the Hiji River in Ozu. Three listed buildings: a thatched house of seven rooms, a retreat cantilevered over the water, a storehouse.

An 1882 wooden schoolhouse in Unomachi, Seiyo, Ehime, built by a local carpenter with arched windows as its light Western touch; now an education museum.

Seven Meiji-period buildings at the Niihama house of Hirose Saihei, who modernised the Besshi copper mine. Designated in 2003 and open inside for 550 yen.

A late 18th-century thatched farmhouse moved from Besshiyama to Kamikuroiwa in 1975. Its rooms sit in a single row with almost no earth floor. Free entry.

A granite hokyointo behind the main hall of Nishiyama Koryuji in Saijo, Ehime: 305 cm tall, of the Nanboku-cho period, and intact from its base to its spire.

The 1375 main hall of Nishiyama Koryuji in Saijo, Ehime: a large hall mixing Japanese and Zen elements, under a hipped roof that looks almost pyramidal.

A pair of uninscribed granite stupas of the late Kamakura period standing on one platform in a Noma rice field, Imabari. Designated in 1954, freely visitable.

A small 1431 Kannon hall at Shounji on Iwagi Island, Ehime: a Zen-style tile-roofed hall with radiating fan rafters and a rare double-lotus altar railing.

A three-bay hall of 1463 with a pyramidal tile roof on Yugeshima, Ehime, noted for rare bracketing and original materials that survive right down to its roof tiles.

Eleven granite pagodas behind Jozenji's main hall in Imabari: 4 gorinto, 5 hokyointo and 2 hoto, three of them dated 1326 or 1357, regathered here in 1704.

Completed in 1484 at temple 49 of the Shikoku pilgrimage in Matsuyama, this 5-bay hipped hall blends wayo and zenshuyo; its shrine bears pilgrim graffiti of 1525.

A three-bay Zen-style hall of about 1483 in the hills of Kihoku, its thatch restored in 1982 after decades under pantiles, with a well-preserved shrine inside.

Taisanji Temple Niomon Gate stands midway up the approach in Matsuyama. Dated 1275 to 1332, it mixes Japanese and Zen-derived carpentry and once had two storeys.

Standing on the small island of Tsurushima off Matsuyama in Ehime Prefecture, Tsurushima Lighthouse is a Western-style stone lighthouse completed in 1873 to the design of Richard Henry Brunton, the Scottish engineer known as the Father of Japanese Lighthouses. It is one of the very few Meiji-era lighthouses still in active service in essentially its original form, and was designated a National Important Cultural Property in 2024 together with its former keepers' quarters, warehouse and stone walls.

Dogo Onsen Honkan in Matsuyama, Ehime, a bathhouse built from 1894 to 1924 with a towered roof and an imperial wing, fully reopened in July 2024 after restoration.

Toshima Family Residence in Matsuyama has seven designated buildings around a 1758 main house whose thatched roofs bend into a reversed Z. It stays a private home.

The Nagahama Ohashi in Ozu, Ehime, a bascule bridge of 1935 by Masuda Jun, is the oldest surviving road bascule bridge and still opens on Sundays at 13:00.

The Buddha hall of Nyohoji in Ozu, Ehime, built in 1670 for a Zen temple founded by the lord of Ozu, has matted floors so that it served as a meditation hall.

The hokyointo at Noma Shrine in Imabari, Ehime, is a stone pagoda of the late Kamakura period, dated by the Agency to between 1275 and 1332 and designated in 1954.

Bansuiso in Matsuyama is a 1922 villa built for Count Hisamatsu to a design by Kigo Shichiro. A sailing-ship window lights the main stair. Open daily except Mondays.

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