13 events
Events across the Shikoku region, checked against official sources.
The tenth Tadao Ando building on Naoshima and the first focused on Asian contemporary art (Murakami, Cai Guo-Qiang, Do Ho Suh), anchoring the Benesse Art Site islands between Triennale years.
Kochi celebrates Sakamoto Ryoma's birthday at Katsurahama on the Sunday closest to 15 November.
Kagawa's Edo-period daimyo stroll garden lit up for ten autumn nights, with the maples around Kikugetsu-tei teahouse and Mt Shiun reflected in the ponds.
Shikoku's largest marathon (10,000 runners) looping from Matsuyama city centre to the Seto Inland Sea coast with a reputation for warm roadside support.
Spring festival at Dogo Onsen in Matsuyama heralding the arrival of spring and giving thanks for the hot spring.
Tokushima's spring festival of Awa Odori performances, local food and crafts at Aibahama Park.
Marugame City's largest festival, held every 3 and 4 May around its original castle keep and great stone walls.
Kochi's energetic summer dance festival, with teams dancing through the city holding naruko wooden clappers.
Birthplace festival of yosakoi: ~18,000 dancers in 200 teams with naruko clappers parade through Kochi behind sound trucks in choreographed, costume-heavy routines.
Japan's most famous Bon dance festival, filling central Tokushima with dancing ren troupes every August.
One of Shikoku's four major festivals, a three day mid-August festival in Takamatsu with a fireworks display over Takamatsu Port.
Takamatsu's three-day Obon festival: a 6,000-shell fireworks show over the port on 13 August and a mass street dance down Chuo-dori on the final night.
Ehime's great autumn harvest festival, where teams of about 150 men carry ornate taiko drum floats through Niihama.