Regional sacred-site guide
Sacred sites in Ehime Prefecture
Explore 28 sacred places in Ehime Prefecture, Japan, with a regional map and links to detailed site guides.
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Showing 1-28 of 28 sites in this regional guide
Butsumoku-ji
Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
Butsumoku-ji is the forty-second temple of the Shikoku pilgrimage and one of its most distinctive: a Shingon temple where the principal image was carved from a camphor...
Daihō-ji
Kumakōgen, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
Daihō-ji is the forty-fourth temple of the Shikoku pilgrimage and its symbolic midpoint, the Nakafudasho....
Eifuku-ji
Imabari, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
Eifuku-ji sits in a quiet bamboo and cedar grove on a low hill above Imabari, the 57th stop on the Shikoku 88-temple pilgrimage....
Enmei-ji
Imabari, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
Temple 54 of the Shikoku henro is the first of six temples clustered around Imabari....
Enmyō-ji
Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
Temple 53 of the Shikoku henro is small, layered, and unusually plural. Its Shingon Hondō houses an Amida Nyorai principal image — uncommon for the school....
Hanta-ji
Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
Temple 50 of the Shikoku henro stands on a wooded hillside above southern Matsuyama, its Yakushi Nyorai principal image attributed by tradition to the wandering monk Gyōki....
Hōju-ji
Saijō, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
Hōju-ji is the 62nd fudasho on the Shikoku 88, an 8th-century imperial foundation that has been moved at least four times—by flood, war, Meiji separation, and the...
Ishite-ji
Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
Temple 51 of the Shikoku henro is the legendary birthplace of the entire pilgrimage tradition....
Ishiteji Temple, Matsuyama
Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
At Temple 51 of Japan's most famous pilgrimage, a stone preserved for twelve centuries tells of sin, remorse, and redemption....
Iwaya-ji
Kumakōgen, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
Iwaya-ji is the forty-fifth temple of the Shikoku pilgrimage and a designated National Scenic Beauty....
Iyo Kokubun-ji
Imabari, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
Iyo Kokubun-ji is the 59th fudasho on the Shikoku 88 and one of the original kokubunji established in 741 by Emperor Shōmu's edict to protect the realm....
Jōdo-ji
Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
Temple 49 of the Shikoku henro stands in low hills south of Matsuyama, weathered and quiet beside its busier neighbours....
Jōruri-ji
Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
Jōruri-ji is the forty-sixth temple of the Shikoku pilgrimage and the first of eight in the Matsuyama cluster....
Kanjizai-ji
Ainan, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
Kanjizai-ji is the fortieth stop on the Shikoku 88 — the first temple of the Ehime (Iyo) section, marking the pilgrim's transition from Tosa's discipline of asceticism...
Kichijō-ji
Saijō, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
Kichijō-ji is the 63rd fudasho on the Shikoku 88 and the only temple on the route whose principal image is Bishamonten—Buddhist guardian-king of the north and one of the...
Kōon-ji
Saijō, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
Kōon-ji is the 61st fudasho on the Shikoku 88 and the head temple of the Shingon-shū Goki-ha sub-school....
Maegami-ji
Saijō, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
Maegami-ji is the 64th fudasho on the Shikoku 88 and the principal Buddhist anchor of the Mt. Ishizuchi sacred-mountain cult....
Meiseki-ji
Seiyo, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
Meiseki-ji is the forty-third temple of the Shikoku 88 and one of the few stops not affiliated with Shingon....
Mt. Ishizuchi
Saijo, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
Mount Ishizuchi stands as the highest peak in western Japan and one of the Seven Sacred Mountains....
Nankōbō
Imabari, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
Temple 55 of the Shikoku henro is the only one of the 88 whose name ends in 'bō' — priest's lodging — a vestige of its origin as a sub-temple of the great Bekku Ōyamazumi...
Ryuukou-ji
Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
Ryūkō-ji is the forty-first temple of the Shikoku pilgrimage and one of its most visible cases of shinbutsu-shūgō, the older Japanese practice of holding kami and Buddha...
Sairin-ji
Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
Sairin-ji is the forty-eighth temple of the Shikoku pilgrimage and the Sekisho of Iyo, the spiritual checkpoint of the Iyo (Ehime) leg of the four-province circuit....
Sankaku-ji
Shikokuchūō, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
Sankaku-ji sits at roughly 450 metres above the industrial coast of Shikokuchūō, the sixty-fifth temple of the Shikoku 88 and the last of twenty-six temples in Ehime....
Senyū-ji
Imabari, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
Senyū-ji crowns Mt. Sakurei south of Imabari, the 58th temple of the Shikoku 88....
Taisan-ji
Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
Temple 52 of the Shikoku henro stands northwest of Matsuyama in cypress and bamboo forest....
Taisan-ji
Imabari, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
Temple 56 of the Shikoku henro is one of the few personally founded by Kūkai. In 815 he led local villagers in flood-control work along the Sosha River, performed the...
Yasaka-ji
Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
Yasaka-ji is the forty-seventh temple of the Shikoku pilgrimage and one of its most layered....
Yokomine-ji
Saijō, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
Yokomine-ji clings to the northern slope of Mt. Ishizuchi, the highest peak in western Japan, at roughly 750 m elevation....
Key questions
Ehime Prefecture sacred-site questions
- How many sacred sites are listed in Ehime Prefecture?
- This regional guide currently includes 28 sacred sites in Ehime Prefecture, Japan.
- Which traditions are represented in Ehime Prefecture?
- The most represented traditions in the current guide include Buddhism.
- Can I view Ehime Prefecture sacred sites on a map?
- Yes. Switch to map view to compare the listed places, then open a site page for coordinates and visiting context.