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Castle
Matsuyama Castle
One of the twelve Japanese castles with an original main keep, on top of Mount Katsuyama in the city center; you can reach it by ropeway or gondola and see the Inland Sea from above.
Ehime · Japan Capital
Matsuyama
In the destination Matsuyama and Shimanami Kaidō.
In the photo: Dogo Onsen Honkan building in Matsuyama
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The city
What to expect from Matsuyama.
Largest city on Shikoku and the capital of Ehime, Matsuyama has the original castle atop Mount Katsuyama, the Dogo Onsen bathhouse from 1894, the Ishite-ji temple on the Shikoku pilgrimage, and trams that connect the station, downtown and Dogo. It is the city of the novel Botchan and of the poet Masaoka Shiki.
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The local experience
What to see in Matsuyama
Bathhouse
Dogo Onsen Honkan
A wooden public bathhouse from 1894 in Dogo Onsen, one of Japan’s oldest hot springs; it has resting rooms, an imperial room and a drum that marks the mornings.
Temple
Ishite-ji Temple
Temple 51 of the Shikoku 88-temple pilgrimage, near Dogo Onsen, with a 14th-century Niomon gate, a National Treasure, a three-story pagoda and a dark cave behind the courtyard.
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