Iyo City

The name “Eiyo” is said to be unique.

Eiyoji, Miyauchi family temple

Photo by CT-May (CC0)

01 ／ Miyauchi House (宮内家住宅)

Once, the water level in a moatwas used to watch the port's tides.

In Nadamachi, the Miyauchi House has four registered Tangible Cultural Properties: the main house, the old retirement house, the retirement lodge and the Shiomibori moat. The moat is a stone-lined pit about 1.5 m deep, which the national record calls a rare tide-gauge facility within a residence. The tourism site says it served as the headquarters of Ino Tadataka's survey team in 1808 and that its formal parlor survives as it was.

4 registered Tangible Cultural Properties (registered 2018)
Shiomibori moat: about 1.5 m deep
Survey team's headquarters in 1808 (tourism site)

02 ／ Fusoboku (扶桑木)

On the cliffs of the Otani coast,buried ancient trees can be seen.

The Otani coast in Mori is the prefecturally designated Natural Monument Fusoboku. Strata are exposed over 1,800 m, where buried trees such as metasequoia, togasawara (トガサワラ) and obaramomi (オオバラモミ) can be seen. The Gunchu Formation was laid down about 2 to 1 million years ago, and the metasequoia is the city's tree.

Prefectural Natural Monument (designated 1956)
Outcrop runs 1,800 m
Gunchu Formation: about 2 to 1 million years old

03 ／ Iyo Inari Shrine (伊豫稲荷神社)

The Inari shrine's tower gate joinsJapanese and Chinese styles.

The tower gate of Iyo Inari Shrine in Inari is prefecturally designated: three bays wide, hip-and-gable roofed and tiled. Frog-leg struts carry relief carvings of cherry blossoms and arabesques, and a ridge tablet dates it to 1662. The city's landscape plan lists the shrine as a prayer site of the Kato lords.

Prefecturally designated Tangible Cultural Property
Ridge tablet of 1662
Three bays, tiled roof

Living here

A station platform in the sunsetbecomes a stage every year.

about 40,000 people

At Shimonada Station in Futami, the Yuyake Platform Concert is held every year on the first Saturday of September. The first was in 1986, and the 41st was announced for September 5, 2026. Futami's sunsets were chosen as one of Japan's Top 100 Sunsets in 2000.

People living here: 35,133people
Area: 194.43km²
Households: 14,161households
Rent (average for rentals): 38,857yen
Healthcare: 1 hospital ／ 26 clinics

Area and habitable land at the same scalee-Stat B1101 / B1103

Population from 2005 onward (municipal boundary changed).2005-04-01 に新設合併（中山町・双海町）。2005年調査から市域が変わっている。

Children waiting for childcare: —10 nurseries and similar
Home purchase subsidy: —
Average annual temperature: —

These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.

Shape

Borders 4 municipalities.

Iyo City in Japan33.757°N 132.704°E

Territory of Iyo City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

21.0km

砥部町, 内子町, 松前町, 大洲市

Travel times per leg are not published by the municipality, so they are not shown.

Iyo City isthis kind of town.

01Eiyoji is the family temple of the Miyauchi family in Nadamachi, and the tourism site says it was founded in 1637. The city says Myoonji, said to have been opened by the priest Kuen, was later moved to Nadamachi and became Eiyoji.
02Miyauchi House in Nadamachi has four registered Tangible Cultural Properties, including the Shiomibori, a tide-gauge facility inside a residence. On the Otani coast in Mori is the prefectural Natural Monument Fusoboku, and Iyo Inari Shrine in Inari has a prefecturally designated tower gate.
03Shimonada Station in Futami hosts the Yuyake Platform Concert every September, and Futami's sunsets were chosen as one of Japan's Top 100 Sunsets. The city was formed in 2005 by the merger of old Iyo, Nakayama and Futami, and holds the wooden schoolhouse of Midori Elementary, the old Bananko lighthouse and a Wu mirror collected from the Sarugatani tombs.

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Iyo City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗