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- Besshi Mine — Minetopia (別子銅山) 283 years under the Sumitomo, with tunnels down to a thousand metres below sea level.
- Cape Sada (佐田岬) The tip of the longest and narrowest peninsula in Japan: the lighthouse has been flashing since 1918.
- Dōgo Onsen Honkan (道後温泉本館) Built in 1894 for 135,000 yen: the mayor paid for it by giving up his own salary.
- Garyū Sansō (臥龍山荘) Ten years and nine thousand workers for a villa paid for by the trade in vegetable wax.
- ICHIHIRO Towel Museum (タオル美術館ICHIHIRO) The world's first facility dedicated solely to towel culture.
- Imabari Castle (今治城) The moat is real seawater: a shark was spotted there in 2015, a 1.8 m ray in 2016.
- Ishite-ji (石手寺) The Niōmon, a National Treasure from 1318: the legend of the Shikoku pilgrimage was born here.
- Iyo-Ōzu Station (伊予大洲駅) A station on the Yosan Line, in Ōzu.
- Iyonada Monogatari (伊予灘ものがたり) Just 58 seats in three carriages, red like the sunset, golden like mikan.
- Kadoya Ekimae Honten At this restaurant three minutes' walk from Uwajima Station, the ‘宇和島づくし’ menu lets you taste several local specialities made with fish…
- Matsuyama Castle (松山城) The only one of the twelve original castles to bear the Tokugawa crest: rebuilt in 1854.
- Mount Ishizuchi (石鎚山) You climb on chains, the longest of them 68 metres: it is one of the seven sacred mountains of Japan.
- Ōtani Pond (大谷池) A man-made reservoir inland from Saijō. There are two 大谷池 in Ehime (the other is in Iyo): this is the one in Saijō.
- Ōyamazumi Shrine (大山祇神社) 80% of Japan's National Treasure armour is here, along with a camphor tree 2,600 years old.
- Saka no Ue no Kumo Museum (坂の上の雲ミュージアム) Andō Tadao designed it as an inverted cone: you go up by ramps only, never stairs.
- Shimonada Station (下灘駅) Called the station closest to the sea in Japan: in autumn, a stage at sunset.
- Uchiko historic district — Yōkaichi Gokoku (八日市護国) 600 metres of yellow houses, paid for by wax: the first protected district in Shikoku.
- Uwajima Castle (宇和島城) A pentagonal plan: the shogun's inspectors mistook it for a quadrilateral.
- Warei Shrine (和霊神社) Its stone torii is over 12 metres tall: this is where the ushioni, the bull-demon, sets out from.
- Yawatahama Port (八幡浜港) A terminal for the ferries linking Shikoku and Kyūshū.
- Yawatahama Station (八幡浜駅) The western terminus of the Yosan Line.