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[[File:Matsuyama Castle Tower 3 (Iyo) JAPAN.JPG|thumb|right|Matsuyama Castle and skyline of city]]
[[File:Flag of Matsuyama, Ehime.svg|thumb|150px|Flag]]
[[File:Emblem of Matsuyama, Ehime.svg|thumb|90px|Emblem]]
{{nihongo|'''Matsuyama'''|松山市|Matsuyama-shi}} is the [[Capital (city)|capital city]] of [[Ehime Prefecture]] in [[Japan]].<ref name="nussbaum 620">Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Matsuyama" in ''Japan Encyclopedia,'' p. 620.</ref>

Matsuyama is on the northwest coast of [[Shikoku]].<ref name="nussbaum 620"/>

It has been [[wikt:recognized|recognized]] as a [[core city]] since 2000.<ref>Jacobs, A.J. [http://www.hindawi.com/journals/usr/2011/692764/  "Japan's Evolving Nested Municipal Hierarchy: The Race for Local Power in the 2000s,"] ''Urban Studies Research,'' Vol. 2011 (2011), p. 8 [PDF 8 of 14]; retrieved 2012-12-5.</ref>

==History==
===Timeline===
* '''1603''' (''[[Keichō]] 8''): [[Kato Yoshiakira]] built Matsuyama Castle<ref name="nussbaum 620"/>
* '''1854''' (''[[Ansei]] 1 ''): Matsuyama Castle destroyed by fire<ref name="nussbaum 620"/>
* '''1889''' (''[[Meiji period|Meiji]] 22''):  Modern city is incorporated

[[Image:Dogo Hot Spring5(Matsuyama City).JPG|thumb|right|''Dōgo Onsen'' main bath house building]]
The city is known for [[hot springs]] ([[onsen]]).  [[Dōgo Onsen]] in Matsuyama is the oldest hot spring bath house in Japan.

Eight of the eighty-eight temples in the [[Shikoku Pilgrimage]] are in Matsuyama.

==Related pages ==
* [[Ehime F.C.]]

== References ==
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==Other websites==
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* http://www.city.matsuyama.ehime.jp/lang/en/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090106002036/http://www.city.matsuyama.ehime.jp/lang/en/ |date=2009-01-06 }}; [http://www.city.matsuyama.ehime.jp/ {{in lang|ja}}]


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