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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.

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 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.

Set on the grounds of the former Saijo domain headquarters in Ehime Prefecture, the Saijo Eiko Church Pastor's House is a two-story wooden building designed in 1951 by Urabe Shizutaro, one of the most influential architects of postwar Japan. Registered as a Tangible Cultural Property of Japan in 2021 together with the adjoining sanctuary and kindergarten, the building blends white plaster walls, cedar plank cladding, exposed timber framing, and lattice and shoji screens in a quietly confident folk-craft idiom—an early masterwork that anticipates Urabe's celebrated Kurashiki cityscape.

Standing within the former Saijo Domain Jinya district in Ehime, the chapel of Saijo Eiko Church is one of the earliest completed works of postwar Japanese architect Urabe Shizutaro. White plaster walls and a rhythm of slender vertical windows give the building a quietly modernist character, blended with Japanese folk-craft sensibility and the spirit of Christian worship. It was registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property of Japan in 2021.

Standing along the moat of the former Saijo Jinya in Ehime Prefecture, the Saijo Eiko Kindergarten Building is a single-storey wooden structure designed in 1953 by the celebrated architect Shizutaro Urabe. Together with the adjacent church chapel and pastor's residence, it was registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property of Japan in February 2021. Discover this rare ensemble of postwar wooden modernism on a quiet walk along the moat.

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.