Cave Spots in Ehime Area

  • Yakama no Oketsugun
    Travel / Tourism
    Ehime Kamiukena-gun Kumakogencho Yanaigawa
    This is a cluster of ouketsu (giant's kettles) in Yanaigawa, Kumakogen town, Kamiukena district. There are roughly 30 of these holes worn in the stone by flowing water and stones in the river, making a rare site that is a designated National Natural Monument. The Yakama (eight pots) name comes from the eight particularly large holes. There are roughly 1. 2 kilometers of maintained trail along national route 440.

Ehime Areas

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Stretched across the northwest corner of Shikoku island, Ehime is a nature-rich prefecture boasting beautiful coastlines and a rural center where mountains play host to 26 of the Buddhist temples that make up the Shikoku Pilgrimage. Matsuyama is home to an original post-feudal castle as well as Dogo Onsen, one of the country’s oldest natural hot springs. The northern city of Imabari marks the entrance to the Shimano Kaido, a road that crosses six spectacular bridges and several islands, forming a route between Shikoku and mainland Honshu.

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