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Ehime

Ehime prefecture (愛媛県 Ehime-ken) is on the Japanese island of Shikoku.

Culture and History

Ehime was formerly known as Iyo (伊予).

Cities

  • Matsuyama - the prefectural capital
  • Imabari - maritime city, 3rd largest ship building company in the world (no 1 in Japan), with over than 200 hundred ship owners.
  • Uwajima - home to bull sumo and sex shrines
  • Saijo - gateway to Mount Ishizuchi
  • Ikata - beautiful mountains and ocean scenery along Japan's narrowest peninsula

Other destinations

  • Dogo Onsen - one of Japan's oldest and most famous hot springs
  • Mount Ishizuchi - Japanese for Stone Hammer and Shikoku's tallest mountain

Talk

Travel to Ehime & Visa Requirements

Flights and airtickets to Ehime

By train

Buses to Ehime

Tours & Getting around Ehime

Ehime attractions and sightseeing

Ehime city tours

Ehime Restaurants: cheap, moderate and expensive

Ehime nightlife, bars, clubs & pubs

Get out

This page was last edited at 13:43, on 5 October 2008 by David. Based on work by Evan Prodromou and Jani Patokallio, Wikitravel user(s) Episteme, Amake and InterLangBot and Anonymous user(s) of Wikitravel.

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