Hazard Maps and Evacuation Shelters in Ehime: How to Look Them Up in Matsuyama, Imabari and Niihama, with Contact Numbers

Hazard Maps and Evacuation Shelters in Ehime

Matsuyama, Imabari and Niihama publish disaster prevention maps online; check home risks on city maps and shelters in PDF lists.
For inquiries, call 089-948-6794 for Matsuyama, 0898-36-1558 for Imabari, and 0897-65-1282 for Niihama.
In Matsuyama, paper maps can be picked up at the Crisis Management Division, Citizens' Division, and branch offices.

This page explains how to look up hazard maps and evacuation shelters in Matsuyama, Imabari and Niihama in Ehime Prefecture. For your own address and situation, ask your city’s disaster prevention division (contact numbers are in the table below).

Matsuyama, Imabari and Niihama in Ehime all publish a disaster prevention map (hazard map) on the web. In all 3 cities, you check the flood or landslide risk to your home on the city’s map and look for shelters in the city’s PDF list. How evacuation information is sent out and who to contact differ by city, so if you have just moved in, check those first.

In short

To get a paper map: in Matsuyama, you can pick one up at the Crisis Management Division, the Citizens’ Division, branch offices and other counters.
To find a shelter: Matsuyama has the “Designated Shelter List (as of April 1, 2026)”, and Niihama has PDFs by district.
To learn whether a shelter has opened: Imabari uses its disaster information portal, and Matsuyama uses the city website and the disaster-prevention radio broadcasts.

Checked with official pages on October 18, 2026 (Japan time). Prices and hours may change.

1. How to look up and who to contact in the 3 cities

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City	Map	Shelter list	Disaster prevention contact
Matsuyama	Matsuyama Comprehensive Disaster Prevention Map (7 areas)	Designated shelter list PDF	Crisis Management Division 089-948-6794
Imabari	Comprehensive Disaster Prevention Map (mainland edition and island edition)	Designated shelters page	Disaster Prevention and Crisis Management Division 0898-36-1558
Niihama	Comprehensive Disaster Prevention Map (updated December 2023)	PDFs by district (Kawanishi, Kawahigashi, Upper area)	Crisis Management Division 0897-65-1282

2. What to know about choosing in Ehime

In all 3 cities, there is a difference between shelters as “places to flee to temporarily to save your life” and “places to stay when you cannot return home”. All 3 cities describe these two under different names (designated emergency evacuation sites and designated shelters).

Imabari has a map for the islands in addition to the mainland. If you live on an island, open the island edition. Matsuyama also has a separate map for its islands.

Whether a shelter can be used depends on whether the hazard is a flood, tsunami or landslide. Imabari’s standard for choosing a shelter is that it is outside Ehime Prefecture’s tsunami inundation zone for a tsunami, outside the inundation zone of the Soja River for a flood, and outside the hazard areas for a landslide.

For a tsunami or storm surge, Niihama says schools and community centers on the coast may be flooded, so it advises going to a safe facility regardless of your school district.

3. Matsuyama: the Comprehensive Disaster Prevention Map has 7 areas

In Matsuyama, you can view maps by area for 7 areas (central, Josai, Johoku, Joto, Jonan, the islands and Hojo) as PDFs from the city’s page. The page was updated on November 22, 2024. On the maps, red is landslides and irrigation pond collapse, blue is river floods and inland flooding, and green is tsunami and storm surge. There is also a list of districts by town name, so you can find the map to open from your own town name.

Episode 49: The disaster prevention map has been renewed! Know it! Make your own My Timeline! (official Matsuyama City channel)

There are separate pages for the hazard maps for floods, storm surges, inland flooding and irrigation ponds. There are also foreign-language versions in English, Korean and Chinese (simplified and traditional). How to make a “My Timeline” (an evacuation plan for each family) is explained on the same city pages and in the “Matsuyama Disaster Prevention App”.

People who have just moved in or have lost their map can pick up a paper map. The counters are the Crisis Management Division (5th floor of the City Hall main building), the Sewerage Development Division (3rd floor of City Hall Annex 3), the Citizens’ Division, branch offices and sub-offices, and the citizen service centers (Fuji Grand Matsuyama, Iyotetsu Takashimaya).

For shelters, look in the PDF “List of designated shelters (designated general shelters) (as of April 1, 2026)”. For each type of disaster (earthquake, tsunami, storm surge, flood, landslide), safety is marked with a circle, triangle or cross, and a triangle means a facility where you can evacuate to the 2nd floor or above even inside an inundation or landslide warning area. When there is a risk of tsunami, the city asks you to move away from the coast and river mouths immediately and flee to as high a place as possible, regardless of the marks. Which shelters are open is announced on the city website and by the disaster-prevention radio broadcasts.

Ways evacuation information is sent out include the Matsuyama disaster prevention email, emergency alert emails (area mail), the digital disaster-prevention radio, the Matsuyama Disaster Prevention App, data broadcasting and J-ALERT.

Inquiries: Crisis Management Division 089-948-6794. The disaster prevention call center is 089-946-4894 (8:00-19:00, closed January 1 to 3), and outside those hours, nights and holidays, 089-948-6685. Matsuyama Comprehensive Disaster Prevention Map (Matsuyama City), About designated shelters (Matsuyama City) and How to evacuate and collect information (Matsuyama City)

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4. Imabari: a Comprehensive Disaster Prevention Map in mainland and island editions

Imabari’s Comprehensive Disaster Prevention Map puts floods and inland flooding, debris flows, cliff collapses and landslides, earthquakes, and tsunami and storm surge into one booklet, in a mainland edition and an island edition. Foreign-language versions are in 3 languages: English, Chinese (simplified) and Vietnamese.

There are also an earthquake disaster prevention map showing seismic intensity distribution, building damage and liquefaction risk for a Nankai Trough megathrust earthquake, an irrigation pond hazard map showing the flooded area if a pond collapses, and a web map showing elevation. There is also a web version of the map where you can print the map around your home.

Shelters are explained in 3 types. A designated emergency evacuation site is a place to secure your safety (such as a school playground). A designated general shelter is a facility where disaster victims can stay for a certain period (such as school buildings and gymnasiums). A designated welfare shelter is a shelter for people who need support. The city says that if your home is safe you do not need to go to a shelter, and staying at home or going to the safe home of relatives or friends is also fine.

Whether a shelter has opened and evacuation information are posted on the Imabari City disaster information portal. There are also emergency notification radios, the community-wide disaster-prevention radio, an emergency disaster information system and power outage information delivery.

Inquiries: Disaster Prevention and Crisis Management Division 0898-36-1558, and the disaster information dial 0898-36-1630 (3rd floor of Main Office Annex 2). Disaster prevention maps and hazard maps (Imabari City), About evacuation and support systems in a disaster (Imabari City) and Disaster Prevention and Crisis Management Division (Imabari City)

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5. Niihama: the Comprehensive Disaster Prevention Map was updated in December 2023

Niihama’s Comprehensive Disaster Prevention Map is a booklet that puts information on earthquakes, tsunami, floods, landslides, irrigation ponds and storm surge, plus shelters and a My Timeline, into one, and it was updated in December 2023. You can view it as a PDF from the city’s page (updated April 22, 2026).

There are also hazard maps by district. For tsunami they are by Kawanishi and Kawahigashi; for floods, landslides, irrigation ponds and storm surge, by Kawanishi, Kawahigashi and the Upper area (east and west); and for Besshiyama, by district for floods, landslides and irrigation ponds. A seismic intensity distribution map and a liquefaction risk map are also on the same page. The full-edition PDF is about 94 MB, both the A4 version and the A3 spread version.

Shelters are of two kinds: designated emergency evacuation sites and designated shelters. Designated emergency evacuation sites are opened by the city when an evacuation order or similar is issued, in the order of community centers, elementary and junior high schools and high schools. Designated shelters are opened after the danger has passed and are facilities where people who have lost their homes live for a certain period. There are also “voluntary emergency evacuation sites” opened locally by neighborhood associations and similar bodies. The lists are in the PDFs for the 3 districts of Kawanishi, Kawahigashi and the Upper area, and in the disaster prevention map (pages 80 to 83).

Evacuation information can be obtained from the page on warning levels and evacuation information, the content of disaster-prevention radio broadcasts, emergency alert emails and power outage information delivery. For checking on people by phone, there is a guide page for the disaster message dial 171.

Inquiries: Crisis Management Division 0897-65-1282 (5th floor of the Niihama Fire and Disaster Prevention Joint Government Building). Disaster prevention map (Niihama City), About shelters (Niihama City) and Crisis management and disaster prevention (Niihama City)

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6. What to check first

If you have just moved in, first open the disaster prevention map with your home address and see which of the flood, landslide and tsunami zones it is in. Next, look for the nearest shelter in the shelter list and check whether that shelter can be used for that type of disaster.

For receiving evacuation information, the entry points are the Matsuyama disaster prevention email or the Matsuyama Disaster Prevention App in Matsuyama, the disaster information portal in Imabari, and emergency alert emails in Niihama.

It also helps to check the order of procedures in our article on moving to Matsuyama: report within 14 days, child allowance within 15 days (Japanese).