Bizen Province Reference entry
Ani Jinja
安仁神社
Ani Jinja is listed here for reference under the former Bizen Province, in present-day Okayama. It is not on the Ichinomiya Junpaikai’s list. It has a car park (about 50 spaces); the sources we checked do not give a fee. Without a car, the shrine's own website gives 2 routes from a station (by taxi); the station names are listed below. The nearest other ichinomiya is Kibitsuhiko Jinja, 23 km to the west in a straight line.
This is a reference entry
This shrine is not on the map published by the Ichinomiya Pilgrimage Association (Zenkoku Ichinomiya Junpaikai). We include it for context. It is not presented as a current ichinomiya.
A former ichinomiya.
Getting there
岡山県岡山市東区西大寺一宮895
The address is given in Japanese on purpose. Show it to a taxi driver, or copy it into a car navigation system — an English transliteration will not be recognised.
For a car navigation system
- Phone
- Japanese car navigation searches by phone number. This is the fastest way to enter a destination.
- Coordinates
- Derived from the address down to the street number, via Japan's national mapping agency. Not a survey of the hall itself
- Address
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By train and bus
- From 西大寺駅JR
- By taxi, about 15 min.
- From 岡山駅JR
- By taxi, about 40 min.
The source, word for word (bus stop names included):
鉄道をご利用の場合 JR岡山駅よりタクシーで約40分 JR西大寺駅よりタクシーで約15分
Taken from the shrine's own website (安仁神社 公式サイト（概要・アクセス）, checked 2026-10-08). Station and stop names stay in Japanese so you can match them to signs. Fares and timetables are not given — they change.
Parking
It has a car park (about 50 spaces); the sources we checked do not give a fee.
台数は出典で不一致（岡山観光WEB 普通車50台・大型車5台／岡山県神社庁 100台）。料金は確認できず
The note above is in Japanese; it usually records dates when the car park is closed, and the fee.
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History in brief
- History
- The earliest record of the shrine is an entry dated 841 in the Shoku Nihon Koki.
- Moved
- Later, the shrine was established at its present site as a prayer shrine of the Ikeda lords of Bizen.
- History
- The Crown Prince visited the shrine in Taisho 15.
Summarised from the prefectural shrine association (岡山県神社庁 安仁神社, checked 2026-10-08). Traditions are given as the shrine tells them, not as established history.
Enshrined deities
- Itsuse-no-Mikoto 五瀬命
- Inahi-no-Mikoto 稲氷命
- Mikenu-no-Mikoto 御毛沼命
Spelling as given by the shrine's own website.
Festivals
- Principal annual festival
-
１０月の第二日曜日 大祭（秋祭り）
source
The shrine itself does not call this its 例祭. We placed its heaviest festival here; that is our judgement, not the shrine's wording.
Other festivals and rituals
- 海中禊
- 2月11日
- 春季 講社大祭
- 4月29日
- 秋季 講社大祭
- 9月第四日曜日
- 崇敬者大祭
- 5月初旬
- 茅の輪くぐり（夏越しの祭り）
- 7月11日
Nearest ichinomiya
The closest is Kibitsuhiko Jinja, about 23 km to the west in a straight line, in the same province. After that come Kibitsu Jinja (23 km west) and Isonokamifutsumitama Jinja (29 km north-west).
Straight-line distances between the shrines, not road distances. Across mountains or water, the drive is much longer.
Why this shrine is called an ichinomiya
Documented by a public source
A public body — the city, the prefecture, or the prefectural shrine office — describes this shrine as the ichinomiya of its province.
Not found on the map published by the Ichinomiya Pilgrimage Association.
The Okayama Prefecture Shrine Agency says that it “first appears in the Shoku Nihon Kōki in 841 (Jōwa 8)” and is “recorded in the Engishiki Jinmyōchō as a myōjin taisha of Bizen Province”, and that in Meiji 4 it was made a kokuhei chūsha. It is the only myōjin taisha of the Engishiki in Bizen Province. The Okayama Prefecture Tourism Federation writes “former ichinomiya of Bizen Province”.
- https://www.okayama-jinjacho.or.jp/search/18031/ (checked 2026-09-09)
- https://www.okayama-kanko.jp/okatabi/89/page (checked 2026-09-09)
- 全国一の宮巡拝会『全国一の宮神社所在地』（平成30年5月・改訂版 第4版） (checked 2026-09-09)
More on how the shrines of this province relate to one another is on the Bizen Province page.
Historical rank
- Province
- Bizen Province (San'yōdō)
- Prefecture
- Okayama
- Engishiki (927)
- Myōjin Taisha
- Former state rank (1871–1946)
- Kensha
Sources
- https://www.okayama-jinjacho.or.jp/search/18031/ (checked 2026-09-09)
- https://www.okayama-kanko.jp/okatabi/89/page (checked 2026-09-09)
- https://www.okayama-kanko.jp/spot/detail_10151.html (checked 2026-09-09)
- https://www.anijinja.net/ (checked 2026-09-09)
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