14 Sights in Matsuyama, Japan (with Map and Images)
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Welcome to your journey through the most beautiful sights in Matsuyama, Japan! Whether you want to discover the city's historical treasures or experience its modern highlights, you'll find everything your heart desires here. Be inspired by our selection and plan your unforgettable adventure in Matsuyama. Dive into the diversity of this fascinating city and discover everything it has to offer.
1. Matsuyama Castle
Matsuyama Castle is a "flatland-mountain"-style Japanese castle that was built in 1603 on Mount Katsuyama, in the city of Matsuyama in Ehime Prefecture, Japan. The castle is one of twelve Japanese castles to still have its original tenshu. The castle has been protected as a National Historic Site since 1952. It is also called Iyo-Matsuyama Castle to disambiguate it from Bitchū Matsuyama Castle in Okayama. Tsuyama Castle and Himeji Castle were also built in a similar style around the same time period.
2. Bansuiso
Bansuiso is a French-style pavilion located in the center of Matsuyama City, the capital of Ehime Prefecture. It is located at the southern foot of Matsuyama Castle. It has been designated as an Important Cultural Property.
3. 伊豫豆比古命神社
Iyozu Hikono Mikoto Jinja is a shrine located in Iaimachi, Matsuyama City, Ehime Prefecture, Japan. Shikinai Company, formerly known as a prefectural company. The divine crest is a sixteen-petalled eight-fold chrysanthemum. Locally, it is also called Tsubaki Shrine or Tsubaki-san.
4. Mt. Katsu
Shiroyama is a mountain located in the center of Matsuyama City, Ehime Prefecture, and is designated as a national historic site. Officially, it is "Katsuyama" (Katsuyama), but it is generally called "Shiroyama" because there is a Matsuyama Castle keep on the top of the mountain. On the eastern ridge stands a TV tower.
5. Bekkaku9 Monju-in
Monjuin is a temple of the Shingon sect located in Matsuyama City, Ehime Prefecture. It is named Dafa Mountain, Monjuin Temple, and Tokujoji Temple. The main Buddha is Jizo Bodhisattva and Bunshu Bodhisattva. Shikoku 88 Extra Shrines, Shikoku Twenty Sacred Sites No. 9, Iyo Pilgrimage 21 Sacred Grounds No. 15, and Iyo Seven Lucky Gods Bishamonten. Honzon Shingon (Jizo Bodhisattva): On, Kakabi, Sanmaei, Sowaka Honzon Shingon (Bunshu Bodhisattva): On, Ara Ha Sha Sacred Song: For the sake of our people, for the sake of the future, Michibikitamau, Saburo Emon
6. 杖ノ淵公園
Jōnofuchi Park (杖ノ淵公園, cane no-fuchi koen) is an urban park (block park) with a spring pond and a Japan garden in Minamitakai, Matsuyama City, Ehime Prefecture, Japan. There is spring water in the park, and carp are released in the spring pond.
7. Yu Jinja
Yujinja Shrine is a shrine located in Kanzan, Matsuyama City, Ehime Prefecture. It is a Shikiuchi company, and the former company name is a prefectural company. The divine crest is "Flower on the tortoiseshell".
8. Ishite Temple
Ishite-ji (石手寺) is a Shingon temple in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, Japan. It is Temple 51 on the Shikoku 88 temple pilgrimage. Its name means Stone Hand Temple (石手寺). Seven of its structures have been designated National Treasures or Important Cultural Properties.
9. Mt. Kofuji
Iyo Kofuji is a small mountain located on Koi Island in Matsuyama City, Ehime Prefecture. The official name is sometimes called "Kofuji" (Kofuji) or "Kofujisan". One of the local Fujis. The altitude is 282.4m. It has also been selected as one of the "100 Best Shima Mountains" by the Japan Remote Island Center (the selected name is "Mt. Kofuji").
10. Yuzuki Castle
Yuzuki Castle was a former Japanese castle located in the city of Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, Japan. During the Muromachi period, it was the stronghold of the Kōno clan, who ruled Iyo Province under the Muromachi shogunate. The ruins of the castle were area designated a National Historic Site.
11. Hogonji Temple
Hōgon-ji (宝厳寺) is a Buddhist temple of the Ji sect in Matsuyama, Ehime, Japan. It is famed as the birthplace of the Buddhist sage Ippen, who founded the Ji (time) sect as an offshoot of the Jōdo sect in 1276.
12. Museum of Art, Ehime
The Museum of Art, Ehime opened in the grounds of Matsuyama Castle in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, Japan in 1998, as the successor to the Ehime Prefectural Museum of Art (愛媛県立美術館), which opened in 1970. The collection of some 11,900 works includes paintings by Monet and Cezanne, nihonga practitioners Yukihiko Yasuda and Yokoyama Taikan, and yōga masters Nakamura Tsune and Yasui Sōtarō, as well as pieces by local artists, including Sugiura Hisui and Masamu Yanase .
13. Yogoin
The nursing home (Yogo-in) is a temple located in Matsuyama City, Ehime Prefecture. The mountain name is Seimenzan. The sect is Shingon Buddhism Daigo school. The main deity is Seimen Kongō. It is an extra temple of the Shikoku 88 temples, the fourth temple of the Hana Henro, the forty-ninth temple of Kazahaya Shikoku (Shakyamuni Buddha), and the fifty-second temple (Kōbō Daishi). It is also known as Jū Daishi.
14. 葉佐池古墳
The Hazaike Kofun (葉佐池古墳) is a Kofun period burial mound, located in the Kitaumemoto neighborhood of the city of Matsuyama, Ehime on the island of Shikoku in Japan. It was designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 2011.
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