Uwajima City

Once a police station, it came home.

Uwajima City Historical Museum

Photo by As6022014 (CC BY-SA 3.0)

01 ／ Unokoku Sumo (卯之刻相撲)

The top bout is stopped midway,said to be kept until next year.

At 5 a.m. on November 3, ritual sumo has been offered in the hall of Hachiman Shrine in Tachima, Yoshida. In the top-rank bout the referee steps in and announces, "this bout is kept until next year," it is said. The city explains that the wrestlers are gods, so no result is decided.

November 3, 5 a.m. (Yoshida Autumn Festival procession)
The wrestlers are all gods, per the city
Yoshida Festival's procession: nationally designated (March 2025)

02 ／ Terraced Fields of Mizunoura, Yusu (遊子水荷浦の段畑)

Fields of stacked stone,kept going with changing crops.

2012遊子水荷浦の段畑1.jpg — Photo by osami (Public domain)

On a slope at Mizunoura, a small cape on the north coast of the Miura Peninsula, stone-walled fields rise in more than 50 tiers. Beginning with wheat and sweet potatoes, the crops shifted to mulberry, large-scale sweet potatoes and citrus. The fields left beside the hamlet now grow mainly potatoes.

Up to about 60 m above sea level
Average slope about 40 degrees, 50-plus tiers
National Important Cultural Landscape (selected 2007)

03 ／ Konishi Main House Annex, the Colored-Glass House (小西本家離れ「色ガラスの家」)

Even rerouting the river,the Konishi family offered to carry out.

The Konishi family moved from the Uwajima castle town in the late 17th century with the domain's permission, and gained vast wealth from sake brewing, land reclamation and salt making. The Iwamatsu River took its present course through river works between the late Edo period and early Meiji. The main house's annex, the Colored-Glass House, and part of a storehouse have been restored.

Konishi family moved from the castle town in the late 17th century
Present river course dates to river works in late Edo to early Meiji
The annex can be visited by prior application or on open days

Living here

In the Date clan's castle town,bulls lock horns.

about 70,000 people

The town has been a castle town since Date Hidemune became the first lord of Uwajima Domain. In a dome-shaped arena, regular bullfighting tournaments are held four times a year. Sea bream rice and jakoten fish cakes are known local dishes, and the city lists sea bream farming among its points of pride.

People living here: 70,809people
Area: 468.16km²
Households: 31,452households
Rent (average for rentals): 37,750yen
Healthcare: 7 hospitals ／ 72 clinics

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

Population from 2005 onward (municipal boundary changed).2005-08-01 に新設合併（吉田町・三間町・津島町）。2005年調査から市域が変わっている。

Children waiting for childcare: —24 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.

ACCESS

Where you can go from here.

Uwajima City in Japan33.223°N 132.561°E

to OsakaHighway bus428min
to SannomiyaHighway bus378min

Travel times follow 宇和島自動車「高速バス（神戸・大阪線）」の時刻表（公式ページ。昼行便のみ。夜行便は運休中と注記）の下り便（神戸・大阪→宇和島） (checked 2026-09-30). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 6 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Territory of Uwajima City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

35.0km

Ehime Prefecture: 鬼北町, 西予市, 愛南町, 松野町
Kochi Prefecture: 四万十市, 宿毛市

Uwajima City isthis kind of town.

01The building of the Uwajima City Historical Museum was built in 1884 as the Uwajima police station, in a pseudo-Western style. After serving as the town office of Saikai (now Ainan), it came home to Uwajima and was restored beside the Kabasaki battery site. It is a nationally registered tangible cultural property.
02At Hachiman Shrine in Tachima, Yoshida, ritual sumo (Unokoku Sumo) has been offered early on the morning of November 3. Stone-walled terraced fields spread across Mizunoura in Yusu, and the Colored-Glass House, an annex of the Konishi main house in Iwamatsu, Tsushima, can be visited by prior application or on open days.
03Uwajima has been a castle town since Date Hidemune arrived; the keep of Uwajima Castle is a national Important Cultural Property and Tenshaen garden a national Place of Scenic Beauty. Yatsushika-odori (deer dance) is performed at Uwatsuhiko Shrine's autumn festival, and Takano Choei, whom Date Munenari summoned, taught Dutch learning to young men of the domain at his school, Gogakudo.

See the town as it is now.

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Source: Wikidata (P2002, P2003, P2013, P2397)

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

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