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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 house and office of the former Ninomiya sawmill in Oda, Uchiko, Ehime, built in 1942 for a forestry family, carries its eaves out on beams on all four sides.
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.
A small 1927 concrete cable house on a cove of the Sadamisaki Peninsula, Ehime, where a 44.2 km submarine communications cable from Saganoseki in Oita came ashore.
The parsonage of Saijo Eiko Church in Saijo, Ehime, built in 1951 beside the chapel, is a two-storey timber house finished throughout in a Japanese style.
The chapel of Saijo Eiko Church in Saijo, Ehime, built in 1951 on the site of the domain jin'ya, is a gabled chapel with a bell tower and tall windows.
The Saijo Eiko Kindergarten in Saijo, Ehime, built in 1951 beside the church chapel, is a timber Modernist building with an open colonnade and clerestory light.
A 17-square-meter tool store of 1937 behind a sake brewer's house in Shikokuchuo, Ehime. Registered in 2003 for plasterwork that is hard to reproduce.
A reception hall of about 1927 at the Suenaga shipping family's Nagahama house in Ozu, Ehime, registered in 2003 for its two 18-mat rooms and coved coffered ceiling.
Nagahama Town Hall in Ozu, Ehime, is a wooden office of 1936 with a gabled pediment, 2 round columns and a tiled roof. Registered in 2000, it still works.
The Butokuden in Niihama, Ehime, a timber martial arts hall of 1938, houses kendo and judo halls behind a front of layered gables over a carriage porch.
The Inner Gate of Matsuyama Castle, a turret gate between the keep and the Entrance Tamon Turret, was partly burned in 1933 and rebuilt in timber in 1968.
The North Corner Turret of Matsuyama Castle mirrors the South Corner Turret on the west front of the keep; lost to arson in 1933, it was rebuilt in 1968.
The Entrance Porch of Matsuyama Castle, a formal step under a rising cusped-gable roof leading into the keep complex, was lost to arson in 1933 and rebuilt in 1968.