Leisure / Outdoors Spots in Ehime Area

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Leisure / Outdoors

Kiki’s Strawberry House (Inoue Ichigoen)

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Ehime Imabari-shi Kamiuracho Amazaki 379

This strawberry farm is located on National Route 317 in Amazaki, Kamiura-cho, Imabari City. The use of aeroponics assures that each strawberry plant is able to absorb plenty of sunlight. Guests can enjoy eating all the ripe strawberries they can pick for 30 minutes from January to the beginning of June (reservation required).
Omishima Wisteria Park / Tsuruhime Park

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Ehime Imabari-shi Omishimacho Miyaura 9100-1

These parks are located in Miyaura, Omishima-cho, Imabari City. The parks, Omishima Wisteria Park and Tsuruhime Park, are located to the east and west of the Imabari City Omishima Museum of Art, respectively. Omishima Wisteria Park is famous for its 300 meters of wisteria trellises and hosts a wisteria festival during the wisteria blooming season. Tsuruhime Park features monuments to Tsurhime, a female warrior often referred to as “the Joan of Arc of Setouchi.”
Fujiyama Health and Culture Park (Myokensan Tumulus)

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Ehime Imabari-shi Onishicho Miyawaki Otsu 579-1

This park in Miyawaki, Onishi-cho, Imabari City was developed around the Myokensan Tumulus, a National Historical Site. Its attractions include a grassy open space, play equipment, a Japanese garden, and a history museum featuring exhibits that include artifacts excavated from the ancient burial mounds. Visitors can also enjoy seeing the cherry blossoms, hydrangea, Japanese iris, and other seasonal flowers.
Sakurai Sogo Park

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Ehime Imabari-shi Yunoura Otsu 58-1

This park is located in Yunoura, Imabari City. It features an array of sporting facilities such as a baseball field, tennis courts, and a park golf course. Other attraction facilities include a grassy open space and an observation deck with a view of the ocean. Parkgoers can also try sledding and bobsleighing down a grass slope.
Umiyamajo Observatory Park

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Ehime Imabari-shi Namikatacho Hinokuchi Otsu 747-2

This park is located in Hinokuchi, Namikata-cho, Imabari City. It was developed on and around the mountain where the lookout that monitored ships passing through the Kurushima Strait during the warring states period, was located. It features a promenade that allows visitors to enjoy walking to the mountain’s peak. There is also a castle-themed observatory that offers a sweeping view of the Geiyo Islands. The observatory is illuminated at night.
Kinsha-kohan Park

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Ehime Shikokuchuo Kinshacho Hiranoyama 232 (Reinan Kominkan) Mae

This park is located on National Route 319 in Hiranoyama, Kinsha-cho, Shikokuchuo City. It sits on the shore of the dam lake formed by Yanase Dam. Visitors can enjoy the beautiful scenery of the surrounding mountains and of Hirano Bridge, which spans the lake. The park’s attractions include a promenade, playground equipment s, a museum featuring exhibits about the dam and the history of its construction, and more. Visitors can also enjoy outdoor activities such as bass fishing and camping.
Mori to Kohan no Park

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Ehime Shikokuchuo Kanadacho Handa Ko 232

This park is located next to Kaitani Pond in Handa, Kanada-cho, Shikokuchuo City. It features open spaces, an iris garden, a large playground equipment, a promenade, and other attractions. The park also has an auto camping site where campers can enjoy nature and the outdoors on the lakeshore.
Kirinokogen

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Ehime Shikokuchuo Shingucho Kamiyama 4500

This tourist attraction is located on the 1000-meter-high Shiozuka Highland in Shingu-cho, Shikokuchuo City. It features camping sites, cottages, barbequing areas, a hands-on woodworking shop, and other facilities. It is an outdoor play zone where visitors can enjoy activities such as mountain biking and hiking. It is also known as a Mecca of paragliding.
Museum of Great People of Ehime

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Ehime Matsuyama-shi Uenomachi Ko 650 Ehime Lifelong learning Center

This museum is inside Ehime Prefectural Lifelong Learning Center, in Ueno-machi, Matsuyama. It has exhibits with items related to 178 great people of Ehime who left behind reputations in one of nine fields, including scholarship, the arts, government, and sports. They also have a Children’s Great Person Learning Area with documents relating to the individuals on display.
Himegahama Beach

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Ehime Matsuyama-shi Nagashi

This swimming beach is located in Nagasu, Matsuyama City on Nakajima Island in the Seto Inland Sea. Made up of white sand and stretching for 500 meters along the beautiful coast, the beach is full of lively crowds during the summer. Every year in the summer, the beach is the starting point of the swimming phase of the island's famous event, the Nakajima Triathlon.
Jonofuchi Park

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Ehime Matsuyama-shi Minamitakaimachi

This park adjacent to the inner sanctuary of Sairinji Temple is located in Minamitakai-machi, Matsuyama City. The waterside park is built around the Jonofuchi spring. The name Jonofuchi originates from a legend about the Buddhist monk Kukai. In addition to waterfronts and rich greenery, the park also features open spaces, gazebos, and other attractions. It is used by local residents as a place for rest and relaxation.
Matsuyama City Archaeological Museum

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Ehime Matsuyama-shi Minamisayacho Otsu 67-6

This museum is located in Minamisayacho, Matsuyama City. It possesses a collection of around 500 relics dating from the Paleolithic era to the Heian period excavated from sites in the Matsuyama Plain. The museum features permanent exhibits with the basic themes of “look,” “listen,” “touch,” and “think.” This includes hands-on exhibits such as earthenware that visitors can touch. The museum also holds several special exhibits each year.
Hojo Kashima Beach

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Ehime Matsuyama-shi Hojo Tsuji 1595

This swimming beach is in Hojotsuji, Matsuyama City. This long, narrow beach is on Kashima Island in the western part of Hojo Harbor, and visitors can enjoy ocean swimming in the abundant natural environment of the island, which is part of Setonaikai National Park. In addition to being equipped with rest areas, showers, and toilets, it also has a breakwater that is a great place for fishing.
Ishite River Green Space (West Tachibana District)

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Ehime Matsuyama-shi Tachibana

This green space in central Matsuyama City is located along the Ishite River, a Class A river that runs through the city from east to west. It stretches for approximately six kilometers from Iwazeki Bridge to Ichitsubo Bridge. New sporting facilities, open spaces, a dog park, and other attractions were added in recent years as part of a project to redevelop the green space based on a concept entitled “let’s develop an urban oasis and leave behind a legacy of green.”
Takemori Garden

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Ehime Kamiukena-gun Kumakogencho Shimohatanokawa Otsu 209-39

This vineyard is located in Shimohatanokawa, Kumakogen Town, Kamiukena County. It grows five varieties of grape including large red Beniizu grapes, Delaware grapes and Pione grapes. From late August to mid-October, the vineyard offers grape picking at its covered grape arbors. Visitors can also enjoy activities such as barbecuing at Donguri no Mori (this activity is only for guests who are picking grapes) or digging potatoes in mid-September. There is also a farmer’s market that sells grapes, handmade konnyaku (yam cake), juice, and other items.
Kuma Agricultural Park Agripia

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Ehime Kamiukena-gun Kumakogencho Shimohatanokawa Ko 500

This agricultural complex is located on Prefectural Route 209 in Shimohatanokawa, Kumakogen Town, Kamiukena County. It is comprised of training facility for new farmers, a community farm, and a community plaza. The facility offers users of the community farm services such as plant cultivation seminars and agricultural equipment rentals. There is also a market where visitors can buy produce, seedlings, and other items. Visitors can also enjoy strawberry picking from February to May (reservation required).
Kuma Bronze Gallery

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Ehime Kamiukena-gun Kumakogencho Higashi-myojin Otsu 333-1 Kuma Country Club Uchi

This art museum is attached to Kuma Country Club, a golf course in Higashimyojin, Kumakogen town, Kamiukena district. Their exhibitions center mostly around bronzes by domestic and international artists like Rodin, Renoir, and more. You can also view an outdoor display of Satoshi Yabuuchi's Running Boy. It's only open by reservation from Wednesday through Friday.
Niihama City Forest Park Yuragi no Mori

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Ehime Niihama Besshi Yama Ko 122

This park is in Besshiyama, Niihama city. The natural parkland ranges in elevation from 700 to 900 meters, and there are facilities like Auberge Yuragi with lodging, restaurants, and more, and the Sakura Kobo workshop where you can try woodworking. In May, they hold the Pergola Fuji Matsuri in a 45 meter diameter dome-shaped wisteria trellis, Japan's largest.
Kawa-no-Hama Beach

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Ehime Nishiuwa-gun Ikatacho Kawanohama

This swimming beach is located in Kawanohama, Ikata Town, Nishiuwa County. It is a natural sand beach stretching for one kilometer along the Uwa Coast with calm, clear water. Many people visit it during the swimming season, including people from outside the town. At Shirasu Park, they can also enjoy eating whitefish caught in the nearby waters.
Outdoor Oasis Campground

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Ehime Saijo-shi Komatsucho Shinyashiki Otsu 22-29

This camping ground is a part of Outdoor Oasis Ishizuchi, an outdoor recreation complex attached to the Ishizuchisan Service Area of the Matsuyama Expressway in Shinyashiki, Komatsu-cho, Saijo City. It features 10 auto camping sites and 10 first-come first-served sites located on high ground that overlooks the city. The complex features a variety of facilities such as a visitor’s center that includes a Montbell outdoor clothing and equipment store, the Oasis Market, which sells local produce, and the Tsubaki Koryukan hot spring bathhouse.

Ehime

Matsuyama Tobe Uchiko Imabari / Shimanami Kaido Mt. Ishizuchi / Shikoku Karst Ozu / Uwa / Sadamisaki

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Ehime Areas

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.