A view across the Seto Inland Sea to the Shimanami Highway in Ehime, Shikoku. Persimmon trees in Shimanto, Shikoku. A pharmacy, karaoke hall and hair salon at night in Shimokitazawa, Tokyo.

In just three days, 10 million yen (about $67,000) was raised through a crowdfunding campaign to relocate a rare "Shiden-Kai" ...

He had stumbled upon the starting point of the Shikoku Henro, a centuries-old 750-mile (1,200 kilometer) pilgrimage winding through the island’s four prefectures — Tokushima, Kochi, Ehime and ...

Experience a different side of Japan's great outdoors in Shikoku and Tohoku. Ehime, in the Shikoku region, exemplifies Japan’s close connection with nature. Here you’ll find the stunning Mount ...

Last, but not least, in the northwest of Shikoku is Ehime Prefecture, located at the southern end of the Shimanami Kaido cycling route, with an airport that connects to Tokyo.

Divided into four prefectures, Kagawa, Ehime, Tokushima and Kochi, Shikoku offers visitors an ideal opportunity to experience the distinctive cultures of multiple prefectures in one trip.

The henro pilgrimage route on the island of Shikoku is celebrating its 1,200-year anniversary in 2014. Today people from all over Japan and the rest of the world are walking the circuit of 88 ...

The pilgrimage on Shikoku, the smallest of Japan’s four main islands, is a 750-mile route that links 88 Buddhist temples, each of which claims a connection to Kukai, a celebrated monk ...

Located between the Seto Inland Sea and the Pacific Ocean is the island of Shikoku, home to its four prefectures: Ehime, Kagawa, Tokushima and Kochi.Despite being the smallest among Japan’s four main ...

The outage affected some 365,300 homes in the prefectures of Kagawa, Ehime, Tokushima and Kochi from 8:22 p.m. to 9:49 p.m. (1122 GMT to 1249 GMT), a Shikoku Electric spokesman said by phone on ...

It was the year’s first auction of satsuma mandarin oranges, a famous citrus species from Ehime prefecture, on the island of Shikoku in southern Japan. ‘Three suns’ ...

The quake measured a lower 6 — the third highest level — in the Ehime Prefecture town of Ainan and the Kochi Prefecture city of Sukumo. Striking at a depth of 39 kilometers, its epicenter was ...