Tamashima Townscape Preservation District

Tamashima was once a small island scattered in the Seto Inland Sea, but in the Edo period, large-scale new rice fields were developed by the Bicchu Matsuyama clan. During the Genroku period, Tamashima flourished as a port town thanks to the Kitamae-bune and Takase-bune water transportation. Even now, there are still many merchant houses and storehouses with tiled roofs, with insect cage windows, latticework, plastered walls, and sea cucumber walls, which combine with the greenery of the mountains and waterside landscape in the background to create an outstanding historical landscape. .