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unusual facts about Matsuyama, Ehime



Botchan Ressha

The narrow-gauge (2'6" / 762 millimeter) locomotives used Stephenson valve gears and ran on coal. The 4.5 mile line ran every hour from Mitsuhama to Togawa (now Matsuyama City Station) stopping at Komachi station. In the 1894 Murray's Handbook Chamberlain and Mason wrote, "This is a pretty little journey across the mountain-girt plain, in whose centre rises the wooded hill crowned by Matsuyama castle, which comes in view before reaching the intermediate station of Komachi.

Crimson Bat

In 1971 Nippon TV ran a Crimson Bat (めくらのお市物語) TV series also starring Yoko Matsuyama with Hiroshi Fujioka.

Gauge Change Train

From May to June 2003, the train was tested for the first time in Shikoku, running late at night on the Yosan Line between Sakaide Station and Matsuyama Station.

Hideki Matsuyama

In 2011, Matsuyama won the gold medal at the 2011 World University Games.

Hirota

Hirota, former village located in Iyo District, Ehime, Japan

IC e-card

Iyotetsu Bus; all the regular bus lines, including limousine buses to Matsuyama Airport and Matsuyama Port, a railway-transfer bus between Takahama Station and Matsuyama Port, but excluding a service by Setouchi Bus.

Inugami Gyoubu

The "Tale of the Eight Hundred and Eight Tanuki Matsuyama Distrubance," was based on the historical record "Iyo Nagusa" (伊予名草) that told of the O-Ie Sōdō, which occurred during the Great Gyōhō Famine in 1805 or Bunka 2, and in the Edo period, and according to the kōshaku storyteller Nanryuu Tanabe, it was a ghost story that added elements of tanuki and yokai to it, and became known through kōdan.

Japanese cruiser Chishima

One of the cannons of Chishima is preserved in a memorial at Aoyama Cemetery in Tokyo, and a memorial to the Chishima disaster with calligraphy by Tōgō Heihachirō is at the Buddhist temple of Jofuku-ji in Matsuyama.

Matsuyama Declaration

Coordination Council of Matsuyama Declaration (Head of the secretariat is Gania Nishimura) was held in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, on July 18, 1999 and the draft of the Declaration was created.

RNB

Nankai Broadcasting (Radio Nankai Broadcasting), a broadcasting station in Ehime Prefecture, Japan

Saka no Ue no Kumo

The novel is set in the Meiji period and focuses on three characters from the city of Matsuyama: Akiyama Yoshifuru, his brother Akiyama Saneyuki, and their friend, Masaoka Tsunenori, better known as Masaoka Shiki.

Solatorobo: Red the Hunter

CyberConnect2's president and CEO, Hiroshi Matsuyama, has revealed at a Namco Bandai event in Barcelona that his company is interested in developing a sequel to Solatorobo: Red the Hunter.

Takuji Yamashita

Takuji Yamashita (1874–1959), born in Yawatahama on Ehime, Shikoku, Japan, was a civil-rights campaigner.

Ukena District, Iyo

Shimoukena District - In 1896 the district was absorbed by both Iyo and Onsen District and thereby dissolved (formerly covered the cities of Matsuyama, Tōon, Iyo, the town of Tobe in Iyo District, and the town of Uchiko in Kita District)

USS LST-953

LST-953 carried elements of the 2nd Marine Division to Nagasaki on 24 September for the occupation of Japan and men of the US Army's 24th Infantry Division to Matsuyama on 27 October.


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