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Shikoku is home to four of the twelve castles with keeps that survive from the Edo period. It also has several interesting ‘water’ castles.

Shikoku Chicken Dishes With sea on all sides, Shikoku is naturally a good place to eat fish, and indeed, the island has some of the…

Shikoku is home to a wide variety of attractive traditional crafts. You may encounter some of them on your visit, or you can choose to…

Shikoku Kominka Shikoku offers some unique accommodation choices, and among these, the _kominka_ ranks highly as the sort of place visitors want to stay. A…

Shikoku is home to Japan’s oldest recorded hot spring.

Tokushima Top Ten In this series of articles, we look at the top ten places in the four main cities of Shikoku – Tokushima, Matsuyama,…

You can get to Shikoku by road, rail, ferry, and air.

Wasanbon is a fine-grained Japanese sugar, traditionally made in Tokushima and Kagawa. The sugar is often used for Japanese sweets.

What to do in Dōgo Dōgo is a part of Matsuyama in Ehime Prefecture, known for Dōgo Onsen, which is said to be the hot…

Everything on the list is normal walking gear.

Sustainability and Japan Adventurer Sustainability means different things to different people, depending on the situation they find themselves in. Currently in Japan, much noise is…

Shikoku has something to offer in every season.