Edo

Isaniwa Shrine in Matsuyama keeps four buildings of 1667 in the rare hachiman-zukuri form, plus 22 sangaku tablets, five minutes uphill from Dogo Onsen station.

A mid-Edo keep on a hill in Uwajima, three storeys of white plaster with stacked gables, no loopholes and no stone chutes. One of Japan's twelve surviving keeps.

Ozu Castle in Ehime keeps three turrets of 1843 to 1861 on a hill by the Hiji River, two of them joined to a rebuilt keep and one with a rare railed gallery.

The San-no-maru South Corner Turret of Ozu Castle in Ehime, rebuilt in 1766, is the oldest surviving turret of the castle, with hidden loopholes in its walls.

A Kansei era townhouse in Uchiko, Ehime, listed with its 1885 rear parlour. Built before the wax boom, its upper floor holds no reception rooms. Exterior only.

The worship hall of Oyamazumi Shrine on Omishima, Ehime, built in the early Edo period, is a seven-bay hall with a gabled roof of cypress bark before the main hall.

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.

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 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.

Matsuyama Castle in Ehime keeps 21 Edo-period buildings designated as Important Cultural Properties: a keep rebuilt in 1854 with 6 turrets, 7 gates and 7 walls.

A small thatched farmhouse in the Kiriyama hills of Shikokuchuo, Ehime, walled on three sides with a naka-nema three-room plan; among the prefecture's oldest.

A headman's compound in Matsuyama, an Important Cultural Property since 1970: an 1866 main house with a thatched roof monitor, a gatehouse and two storehouses.

A saddle at 820 metres in the precinct of Yokomineji in Saijo, Ehime, a Place of Scenic Beauty since 2017, where an iron torii frames the sacred Mount Ishizuchi.

A late Edo stone sluice on the shore of Omishima in Ehime, its granite wall curving 7.8 meters around the outlet. The channel was rebuilt, yet it still drains today.

A late Edo stone sluice on the shore of Omishima in Ehime that drained a salt field. Its dry-laid granite wall runs 12 meters, diagonal below and coursed above.

A late Edo dry-laid wall at Uchiko in Ehime: 6 metres high, 31 metres at the base, green schist slabs with seven large blocks set into the face. Registered in 2006.

Built in late Edo and moved here in Meiji, Umenishiki Yamakawa Brewing Storehouse is said to have been an Iyo-Saijo domain boathouse. Registered in 2001.

The nagayamon gatehouse of the Ono family in Ozu, Ehime, a late Edo building over thirty metres long on a stone wall above the Hiji River, is a local landmark.

The Ochi Family Residence Shop and Dwelling in Saijo, Ehime is a late Edo merchant house registered in 2002. Its omoteya-zukuri front faces the old port road.