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  • Traditional Townscape of Unomachi
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    Ehime Pref. Seiyoshi Uwachounomachi
    This classical post-town along the Uwajima Highway has been designated as one of Japan's Important Preservation Districts for Groups of Traditional Buildings. The town grew out of the castle town of Matsuba Castle, ruled by the Saionji family in the Muromachi Period. Shops built from the middle of the Edo Period to the beginning of the Showa Period line the streets and traditional architectural styles such as white plaster walls, udatsu (firewall built at both ends of a roof), and latticed bay windows still remain. Famous Edo-Period western scholars including Takano Choei, Ninomiya Keisaku, and Japan's first female doctor Kusumoto Ine used to traffic this neighborhood. Amongst the Japanese style architecture, you'll notice churches and western style arch windows among the buildings, allowing you to experience the changing of the times.
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  • Iwamatsu Town
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    Ehime Uwajima-shi Tsushimacho Iwamatsu
    This Iwamatsu district of Tsushima Town, Uwajima City along the Iwamatsu river once prospered as a shipping center. There are old merchant houses, sake breweries, and ryokan inns built from the Meiji into the Taisho eras, and are maintained today to preserve the traditional atmosphere of that port town. It's known for being the setting of Shishi Bunroku's novel Ten'ya Wan'ya.
  • Ozu no Machinami
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    Ehime Ozu-shi Ozu
    The Ozu District of Ozu City prospered as a castle town until the end of the Edo period. Beginning in the Meiji period, it had a booming sericulture and silk spinning industry. Having avoided the ravages of war, the district retains the centuries-old townscape from this time. Visitors can walk the streets and see the rows of merchant houses with namako walls.
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  • Meijo no Ienami
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    Ehime Ozu-shi Ozu
    This street is located in Ozu, Ozu City, which flourished as a castle town before developing a booming sericulture and silk-spinning industry in the Meiji period. It is lined with many well-preserved buildings from this period including merchant houses and samurai residences. Well-known for its charming townscape, the street occasionally serves as a filming location for movies and television dramas.
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  • Meiji Townscape
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    Ehime Yawatahama-shi Honaicho Kawanoishi
    This neighborhood in the Kawanoishi District of Honai-cho, Yawatahama City retains many well preserved buildings from the Meiji to early Showa periods. One of these buildings is the red brick warehouse of Toyo Boseki, which was established in 1887 as the prefecture’s first spinning company. Others include the Shiraishi Wataro Yokan, an example of Giyofu (quasi-western) architecture, as well as the Ehime Sanshu building, a National Tangible Cultural Property. Visitors can feel the industrial history of the town.
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  • Yokaichi Gokoku Townscape
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    Uchiko-cho, Kita-gun, Ehime Prefecture
    Unchanged historical buildings related to the mokuro (Japan tallow) wax industry, and traditional houses and warehouses line the former highway which developed with the wax industry from the end of the Edo period to the Meiji period. The town was selected as a National Important Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings in 1982 due to the actions of the town preservation movement.
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  • Mitsuhama
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    Ehime Matsuyama-shi Mitsu
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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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