Uwajima

Between Kyushu and Shikoku

Information about Uwajima

Uwajima is a city near the sea, in the hollow of Bungo Strait which separates Kyushu and Shikoku islands. Few travelers visit Uwajima during their stay in Japan, yet the city has a lot to offer!

The city is part of the famous pilgrimage route of the 88 temples around Shikoku Island. It is also the ideal place to immerse yourself in one of the aspects of Japanese culture that seems, to us Europeans, strange. There are several delicate temples as well as other oddities such as a sex museum that is part of a larger fertility shrine.

Interesting facts about Uwajima

Uwajima, like the city of Matsuyama, has a castle from the feudal period which is one of the twelve original castles still intact in Japan.

Pictures of Uwajima

Highlights in Uwajima

Visit the Taga Fertility Shrine

Taga Shrine is a Shinto site where people pray for longevity, good health and especially fertility. The Taga Shrine is famous would be one of those aspects of Japanese culture that seems, to us Europeans, strange.

The shrine is famous for its cult objects related to fertility, including a wooden phallus about two meters long displayed next to the main shrine building. These explicit fertility objects were once more common in Japanese shrines, until Western puritanical values led to their suppression around the Meiji period (1868-1912).

Uwajima

Between Kyushu and Shikoku

Information about Uwajima

Interesting facts about Uwajima

Pictures of Uwajima

Highlights in Uwajima

Visit the Taga Fertility Shrine

Our trips to Uwajima

Uwajima

Between Kyushu and Shikoku

Information about Uwajima

Interesting facts about Uwajima

Pictures of Uwajima

Highlights in Uwajima

Visit the Taga Fertility Shrine

Our trips to Uwajima