Suruga Province Ichinomiya
Fujisan Hongu Sengen Taisha
富士山本宮浅間大社
Fujisan Hongu Sengen Taisha is the ichinomiya — the leading shrine — of the former Suruga Province, in present-day Shizuoka. It has a car park (about 150 spaces), paid. Opening hours end at 15:50 (prayer-rite desk). Without a car, the local authority gives 2 routes from a station (on foot, by bus), one of them a walk of 10 min; the station names are listed below. Its principal annual festival (reisai) falls on November 3–5 every year. We found 3 entries for the shrine in Japan’s national database of designated cultural properties. The nearest other ichinomiya is Mishima Taisha, 30 km to the east in a straight line.
Getting there
静岡県富士宮市宮町1-1
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 富士宮駅JR身延線
- On foot, 10 min.
- From 富士宮駅JR身延線
- By bus.
The source, word for word (bus stop names included):
JR身延線富士宮駅から徒歩で10分。／JR身延線富士宮駅バス停(4番乗り場より粟倉万野線)から乗車、湧玉の池バス停で下車
Taken from the local authority (富士山本宮浅間大社 | 静岡県富士宮市, 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 150 spaces), paid.
This routes you to the car park, not to the hall. The location is taken from OpenStreetMap and has not been checked on the ground.
第1駐車場75台＋第2駐車場75台。通常時の料金は確認できず。初詣期間の料金は年により異なる（1回500円で祈祷を受けると返金、1回1,000円などの案内例あり）。12/28〜1/13はバス駐車不可
The note above is in Japanese; it usually records dates when the car park is closed, and the fee.
Shrine office hours
Opening hours end at 15:50 (prayer-rite desk).
The full note from the source, in Japanese:
祈祷受付 8:30-15:50（神楽奉納は 8:30-16:00）
Closing times of every ichinomiya, earliest first →
Visiting the 4 ichinomiya in Shizuoka in one day? Work out an order that reaches each office before it closes →
History in brief
- Moved
- According to the shrine record, in 806 (Daidō 1) it moved to its present site from Yamamiya Sengen Shrine, a worship site closer to Mt. Fuji.
- Buildings
- Under Tokugawa Ieyasu's patronage, construction of the halls in the distinctive Sengen-zukuri style began in 1604 (Keichō 9).
- Buildings
- The halls were completed in 1606 (Keichō 11), and the deity was moved in the same year.
- History
- In 1779 (An'ei 8), a shogunate ruling recognized its control of Mt. Fuji above the eighth station.
Summarised from the local authority (しずおか文化財ナビ 富士山（富士山本宮浅間大社）｜静岡県公式ホームページ, checked 2026-10-08). Traditions are given as the shrine tells them, not as established history.
Enshrined deities
- Konohanasakuyahime-no-Mikoto 木花之佐久夜毘売命 4 ichinomiya enshrine this deity →
- Ninigi-no-Mikoto 瓊々杵尊 shares the hall 2 ichinomiya enshrine this deity →
- Oyamazumi-no-Kami 大山祇神 shares the hall 5 ichinomiya enshrine this deity →
Spelling as given by the shrine's own website.
Nationally designated cultural properties
- 太刀〈銘南无薬師瑠璃光如来／備前国長船住景光〉
- Important Cultural Property
- 絹本著色富士曼荼羅図
- Important Cultural Property
- 脇指〈銘奉富士本宮源式部丞信国／一期一腰応永廿四年二月日〉
- Important Cultural Property
Source: the national register. All of them together →
Festivals
- Principal annual festival
-
11月3・4・5日 例祭
source
Other festivals and rituals
- 例祭本祭
- 11月4日
- 流鏑馬祭(本祭)
- 5月5日
- 献詠和歌披講式
- 11月4日
- かむながけの儀
- 5月4日
Nearest ichinomiya
The closest is Mishima Taisha, about 30 km to the east in a straight line, the ichinomiya of Izu Province. After that come Sengen Jinja (48 km north) and Kotonomama Hachimangu (68 km south-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
Listed by the pilgrimage association
It appears on the map published by the Ichinomiya Pilgrimage Association. We have not yet checked other primary sources.
- 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 Suruga Province page.
Historical rank
- Province
- Suruga Province (Tōkaidō)
- Prefecture
- Shizuoka
- Engishiki (927)
- Myōjin Taisha
- Former state rank (1871–1946)
- Kanpei Taisha
Sources
- http://www.fuji-hongu.or.jp/sengen/kito/index.html (checked 2026-09-09)
- https://www.city.fujinomiya.lg.jp/1025200000/p002854.html (checked 2026-09-09)
- http://www.fuji-hongu.or.jp/sengen/history/index.html (checked 2026-09-10)
How we handle spellings, festival selection, former ranks and map accuracy is set out once on the About page.