Toon City

Estimated to be a mid-14th-century hall.

Mishima Shrine main hall

01 ／ Kamibayashi Wind Cave (上林の風穴)

In summer the cold air becomes white mist,flowing low along the ground.

It lies on the northern slope of Mt. Saragamine, at about 960 m, inside Kamibayashi Forest Park. The Agency for Cultural Affairs explains that, because the air inside the boulder deposit varies less in temperature than the outside air, air is thought to blow out from the lower part of the talus slope in summer.

Registered Monument (scenic-site category), registered March 10, 2025
About 960 m above sea level (Agency for Cultural Affairs)
A block deposit containing boulders over 2 m across

02 ／ Jushichiya at Ioji Temple (医王寺の十七夜)

A Yakushi Buddha placed on a boatis pulled by children into the temple grounds.

A rite handed down at Ioji Temple in Kitakata for a long time, also called the "Irifune Festival" (boat-entering festival). It takes place on the 17th day of the sixth lunar month, and the city describes it as held once every three years. The main hall holds a shrine (zushi) regarded as a masterpiece of the Muromachi period.

17th day of the sixth lunar month
Once every three years (city guide)
Also called the "Irifune Festival"

03 ／ Ama Falls and the Isu Trees (雨滝)

On the rocks above Ama Falls growtrees whose galls sound when blown.

A scenic spot known as a place of ascetic practice for praying for rain. It gathers water from Shirai Falls and Karakai Falls. Isu trees, thick enough to need both arms, grow on the rocks above; blow into a hole left by an insect and it makes a "hyo-hyo" sound.

Known as a rain-prayer practice site (city)
Isu tree grove is a city-designated monument
About 5 minutes on foot from the signboard on Route 494 (city route guide)

Living here

Ringed by mountains on three sides,the eastern gateway of the Matsuyama Plain.

about 30,000 people

Toon lies in the east of the Matsuyama Plain, with the Ishizuchi Mountains to the east, the Saragamine range to the south and the Takanawa massif to the north. It is 12 km from Matsuyama and became a city in 2004 when Shigenobu and Kawauchi merged.

People living here: 33,903people
Area: 211.3km²
Households: 14,331households
Rent (average for rentals): 41,395yen
Healthcare: 4 hospitals ／ 30 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —5 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.

Toon City in Japan33.791°N 132.872°E

Territory of Toon City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

20.9km

松山市, 西条市, 久万高原町, 今治市

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

Toon City isthis kind of town.

01The main hall of Mishima Shrine stands in the former town of Kawauchi, southeast of Matsuyama. The Agency for Cultural Affairs estimates from its design details that it dates from the mid-14th century. It is a three-bay nagare-zukuri building roofed in copper, and the shrine enshrines the same deity as Oyamazumi Shrine.
02The Kamibayashi Wind Cave, a nationally registered monument on the northern slope of Mt. Saragamine, gives off cool air and mist in summer. Ioji Temple holds the Jushichiya, in which a Yakushi Buddha on a boat is pulled by children on the 17th day of the sixth lunar month.
03Ama Falls is known as a rain-prayer practice site, with Isu trees growing on its rocks. In Kawanouchi, Ichijo-an is the shrine office where the haiku poet Matsune Toyojo (松根東洋城) lived in a single tatami-sized room, and in Yoshihisa is the Okichimozuku habitat, a national natural monument.

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Toon City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗