• Region
    Shikoku
  • Prefecture
    Ehime

Ozu Castle, the first castle in Japan where you can stay, and dispersed hotel stay by reserving the entire old folk houses in the castle town  Experience of becoming the lord enjoying the whole town using cultural properties 

You can enjoy a stay by reserving the entire Ozu Castle, which consists of a wooden keep and two turrets designated as national important cultural properties, and breakfast for the lord at Garyusanso, a national important cultural property. As a cultural experience, you can have unique special experience as the lord of the castle, such as the scene of the first lord of the Ozu Domain entering the castle, the welcoming with celebratory guns and trumpet shells by the musket troops of the Ozu Domain, and kagura dance and other local traditional performing arts. One feature is commitment to local consumption of local products, such as the use of special local products for each of foods, drinks and amenities.

Features

  • Staying at a castle and staying at old folk house hotels scattered around the castle town are unique and special experience of Japanese culture
  • Rich experience contents utilizing the town's tourism resources such as cultural properties (Watching traditional performing arts, a tour of Hiji River by a houseboat, a tour to see cormorant fishing, etc.)
  • In recognition of the conservation and utilization of the townscape by the tourism industry in this content, Ozu City obtained the international certification “2022 Green Destinations Top 100”.

Tour Dates

Year-round

Condition of Application

  • Application period
    No later than 30 days before
  • Fees
    Minimum 1.8 million yen per project, which varies depending on the number of people and the number of days of stay
  • No. of participants
    2 to 86 people
  • Time required
    1 night, 2 days or 2 nights, 3 days
  • Other
    The conservation and utilization of the townscape by the tourism industry in this incentive content were recognized as an example of local excellent efforts, the Good Practice Story, and obtained the international certification “2022 Green Destinations Top 100” for the first time in Ehime Prefecture.


*Capacity might be reduced as part of anti-COVID19 measures. Please confirm them beforehand.

SDGs

  • SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND COMMUNITIES
  • DECENT WORK AND ECONOMIC GROWTH

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