Ehime

Imabari, Ehime

Imabari Castle

今治城

Todo Takatora built this castle right on the shore, and its broad moat is still filled with seawater.

Matsuyama, Ehime

Yuzuki Castle

湯築城

The park next to Dogo Onsen is the castle from which the Kono clan ruled Iyo for some 250 years. It had no stone walls and no keep, only earthen ramparts and a double ring of moats.

Matsuyama, Ehime

Matsuyama Castle

松山城

The keep was finished the year after Perry's Black Ships arrived, and its roof tiles bear the hollyhock crest of the Tokugawa clan.

Ōzu, Ehime

Ōzu Castle

大洲城

Torn down in the Meiji era, the keep was rebuilt in wood in 2004, guided by old photographs and an Edo-period wooden model of its frame.

Uwajima, Ehime

Uwajima Castle

宇和島城

Both the Edo-period keep and an Edo-period wooden model of it, built at one-tenth scale, survive.

Imabari, Ehime

Noshima Castle

能島城

Imabari, Ehime

Amazaki Castle

甘崎城

Saijo, Ehime

Einōsan Castle

永納山城