13 Sights in Imabari, Japan (with Map and Images)

Imabari Castle is a Japanese castle in Imabari, Ehime, Japan. It was the center of Imabari Domain under the Edo Period Tokugawa shogunate and was ruled by a branch of the HisamatsuーMatsudaira clan through most of its history.

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Manganji Temple is a temple located in Asakura, Imabari City, Ehime Prefecture. The name of the mountain is Mt. Kimbira. The sect is Koyasan Shingon Buddhism. The honzon is Yakushi Nyorai. It is the 38th shrine of the New Shikoku Mandala Shrine and the 21st shrine of the 36 Fudo Shrine of Shikoku.

Wikipedia: 満願寺 (今治市) (JA)

Korinji Temple is a temple located in Hataji, Tamagawa Town, Imabari City, Ehime Prefecture. The name of the mountain is Mt. Mayun. The sect is Koyasan Shingon Buddhism. The honzon is Fudo Myo. It is the 41st shrine of the New Shikoku Mandala Shrine and the 20th shrine of the 36th Fudo Shrine of Shikoku.

Wikipedia: 光林寺 (今治市) (JA)

Betsugu Oyama Shrine is a shrine located in Imabari City, Ehime Prefecture, Japan. A separate shrine of the Oyama Gi Shrine in Iyo Province Ichinomiya. The former company name was a prefectural company. New Shikoku Mandala Shrine No. 40.

Wikipedia: 別宮大山祇神社 (JA)

The Tamagawa Museum of Modern Art, Imabari City, Japan, is an art museum located in Tamagawa, Imabari City, Ehime Prefecture, Japan. Western paintings are mainly exhibited, but sculptures and other works are also exhibited. It is also known as the Tokusei Memorial Hall.

Wikipedia: 今治市玉川近代美術館 (JA)

Henjōin is a temple located in Kikuma Town, Imabari City, Ehime Prefecture. Its mountain name is Hōbutsu Mountain. It belongs to the Shingon sect, Bōsan school. In detail, it is also known as Hōbutsu Mountain Henjōin Nichirin Temple. The main deity is Shōkanon, and the founding deity is Kōbō Daishi, who is known for removing misfortunes. It is the 42nd temple of the new Shikoku Mandala pilgrimage and an auxiliary temple of the Shikoku 88 sacred sites. It is also known as the Great Master of Misfortune Removal.

Wikipedia: 遍照院 (今治市) (JA)

Hokkeiji Temple is a temple of the Shingon Ritsu sect located in Sakurai, Imabari City, Ehime Prefecture. The main Buddha is the eleven-sided Kannon Bodhisattva. It is the 37th shrine of the New Shikoku Mandala Shrine.

Wikipedia: 法華寺 (今治市) (JA)

Tozenji Temple is a temple of the Shingon sect of the Daigo sect located at 2-14-2 Kurashiki-cho, Imabari City, Ehime Prefecture. The honzon is a life-like statue of the Yakushi Rurimitsu Nyorai, and is called the Yakushi-san of Junomoto.

Wikipedia: 東禅寺 (今治市) (JA)

Mt. Kamero is a mountain located in the southern part of Oshima (Imabari City, Ehime Prefecture) in the middle of the Seto Inland Sea. It is also known as Mt. Ōkame (Ōkiyama) and Mt. Sumigatake. At an altitude of 307.8 m, the administrative division is Yoshikai Town, Imabari City, and there is a triangular point of 301.1 m on the main peak, and the other northwest peak is 271 m. The area around the summit is the Mt. Kamero Observation Park.

Wikipedia: 亀老山 (JA)

Mt. Narahara is a mountain located in Imabari City, Ehime Prefecture. Altitude 1041m. It is located in the central part of the Takanawa Mountains, between the main stream of the Soja River and its tributary, the Kiji River.

Wikipedia: 楢原山 (JA)

Mt. Seta is a 339-meter-high mountain located in Saijo City, Ehime Prefecture, and Mt. Kasamatsu is located about 1.5 km northwest of the same massif as the mountain, and there is a second-class triangular point Kasamatsuyama at an altitude of 327.8 m at the midpoint of the ridgeline of the two mountains. At the foot of Mt. Seta is the temple (commonly known as Seta Yakushi), and from the parking lot of the temple, you can reach the summit of Mt. Seta in about 40 minutes for 1.4 km via Okunoin (main hall), and then go to the top of Mt. Kasamatsu in 1.5 km on the ridgeline. At the top of Mt. Kasamatsu, there is the Kasamatsu Kannon Hall (Honzon Sente Kannon) and a radio relay station, which is easy to identify. From the summit of this mountain, the view opens up, and it is a scenic place overlooking the Imabari Plain to the north, the Kurijima Strait Bridge beyond, the Ishizuchi Mountains to the south, and the Hikinada of the Seto Inland Sea to the east.

Wikipedia: 世田山 (JA)

The Imabari City Onishi Fujiyama Historical Museum is a municipal history museum located in the Fujiyama Health and Culture Park, 579-1 Miyawaki-oto, Onishi-cho, Imabari City, Ehime Prefecture. The exhibition focuses on archaeological materials related to the national historic site, Myōken Sankofun.

Wikipedia: 今治市大西藤山歴史資料館 (JA)

Noshima (能島) is a small, uninhabited island within the Geiyo Islands of the Japanese Inland Sea. Administratively, it forms part of the city of Imabari, Ehime Prefecture. In the late mediaeval period, the island was occupied by Noshima Castle and, together with the surrounding area, was the base of the Noshima Murakami, one of the three main houses of the Murakami kaizoku. In his Historia de Iapam, Luís Fróis described Noximadono as o mayor corsario de todo Japaõ, "the greatest corsair in all Japan". The island castle, together with tiny Taizakijima immediately to the south, has been designated a National Historic Site, and is an element of Japan Heritage "Story" #036, while Noshima is also afforded protection as a Class I Special Zone within Setonaikai National Park. There is no scheduled service to the island, which may be approached by a vessel chartered from Miyakubo Port on nearby Ōshima.

Wikipedia: Noshima (EN)