Chikuzen Province Ichinomiya
Hakozakigu
筥崎宮
Hakozakigu is the ichinomiya — the leading shrine — of the former Chikuzen Province, in present-day Fukuoka. It has a car park (100 + 230 spaces), paid (free for up to 3 hours if you have a prayer rite). Opening hours end at 17:30 (shrine office). Without a car, the shrine's own website gives 2 routes from a station (on foot), one of them a walk of about 3 min; the station names are listed below. We found 5 entries for the shrine in Japan’s national database of designated cultural properties. The nearest other ichinomiya is Sumiyoshi Jinja (Chikuzen), 3.3 km to the south in a straight line.
Getting there
福岡県福岡市東区箱崎1-22-1
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 箱崎宮前駅福岡市地下鉄箱崎線
- On foot, about 3 min.
- From 箱崎バス停留所
- On foot, about 3 min.
The source, word for word (bus stop names included):
筥崎宮境内に直結した福岡市地下鉄箱崎線・箱崎宮前駅1番出口から楼門までは徒歩約3分／筥崎宮境内に直結した西鉄バス 箱崎バス停留所から楼門までは徒歩約3分と便利な交通手段です。
Taken from the shrine's own website (境内のご案内 | 筥崎宮【公式】, 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 (100 + 230 spaces), paid (free for up to 3 hours if you have a prayer rite).
The fee in the source’s own words: 「100台が収容可能の有料駐車場。」 (source, checked 2026-10-15).
宮前駐車場100台・外苑駐車場230台、どちらも有料（平常時の金額は公式に書かれていない）。ご祈願・婚礼の受付などで使うと3時間まで無料。令和8年の正月は1月1〜7日が1回1,000円、8〜18日が1回500円で、外苑は1月7日までバス専用だった（公式のお知らせ）。放生会の期間は特別駐車場（お潮井浜）を使う
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 17:30 (shrine office).
The full note from the source, in Japanese:
8:30-17:30（社務所。福岡県観光公式）
Closing times of every ichinomiya, earliest first →
Visiting the 3 ichinomiya in Fukuoka in one day? Work out an order that reaches each office before it closes →
History in brief
- Founding
- According to old records, the shrine was built here and moved from Daibu-gu (Honami-gu) in Chikuzen in 923.
- Buildings
- The buildings burned in the Mongol invasion of 1274; Retired Emperor Kameyama dedicated his calligraphy when they were rebuilt.
- Buildings
- In the Bunroku era, Kobayakawa Takakage, lord of Chikuzen, built the two-story gate.
- History
- Warlords including Ashikaga Takauji, Ouchi Yoshitaka, Kobayakawa Takakage and Toyotomi Hideyoshi visited the shrine.
Summarised from the shrine's own website (筥崎宮について, checked 2026-10-08). Traditions are given as the shrine tells them, not as established history.
Enshrined deities
- Ojin-Tenno 応神天皇 10 ichinomiya enshrine this deity →
- Jingu-Kogo 神功皇后 10 ichinomiya enshrine this deity →
- Tamayorihime-no-Mikoto 玉依姫命 4 ichinomiya enshrine this deity →
The shrine's website gives Emperor Ōjin — the fifteenth emperor, born at Kada in present-day Umi, Fukuoka — as principal deity, with Empress Jingū and Tamayorihime.
Our English summary of the Japanese description. Spelling as given by the shrine's own website.
Nationally designated cultural properties
- 筥崎宮拝殿
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Important Cultural Property
桁行四間、梁間一間、一重、切妻造、檜皮葺
designated 1907-05-27 · late Muromachi period - 筥崎宮本殿
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Important Cultural Property
九間社流造、檜皮葺
designated 1907-05-27 · late Muromachi period - 筥崎宮楼門
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Important Cultural Property
三間一戸楼門、入母屋造、檜皮葺
designated 1902-04-17 · Momoyama period - 筥崎宮鳥居
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Important Cultural Property
石造明神鳥居 柱に慶長第十四太歳舎己酉季秋中旬の刻銘がある
designated 1955-06-22 · Momoyama period - 石燈籠
- Important Cultural Property
Source: the national register. All of them together →
Festivals
- Principal annual festival
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9月12日～18日 放生会
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
- 玉取祭
- 1月3日
- さつき大祭
- 5月27日・28日
- 池島殿祭
- 6月27日もしくはその前後の日
- 夏越祭
- 7月の最終日曜日と前日
- 春季社日祭・秋季社日祭
- 春分の日に一番近い戊の日／秋分の日に一番近い戊の日
Nearest ichinomiya
The closest is Sumiyoshi Jinja (Chikuzen), about 3.3 km to the south in a straight line, in the same province. After that come Chiriku Hachimangu (32 km south) and Yodohime Jinja (36 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
No primary source found
We could not find any primary source calling this shrine an ichinomiya — not the shrine’s own site, and not any public body. We say so rather than assume.
Listed on the map published by the Ichinomiya Pilgrimage Association.
The city of Fukuoka’s cultural property page, Fukuoka Prefecture’s official tourism site and the shrine’s own website all call it only one of the “three great Hachiman shrines of Japan”, and do not claim the title of ichinomiya. No primary source for calling it the ichinomiya of Chikuzen Province could be found.
- https://bunkazai.city.fukuoka.lg.jp/cultural-properties/detail/498/ (checked 2026-09-09)
- https://www.crossroadfukuoka.jp/spot/12537 (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 Chikuzen Province page.
Historical rank
- Province
- Chikuzen Province (Saikaidō)
- Prefecture
- Fukuoka
- Engishiki (927)
- Myōjin Taisha
- Former state rank (1871–1946)
- Kanpei Taisha
Sources
- https://bunkazai.city.fukuoka.lg.jp/cultural-properties/detail/498/ (checked 2026-09-09)
- https://www.crossroadfukuoka.jp/spot/12537 (checked 2026-09-09)
- https://yokanavi.com/spots/26931 (checked 2026-09-09)
- https://hakozakigu.or.jp/about/ (checked 2026-09-10)
- https://hakozakigu.or.jp/keidai/ (checked 2026-10-15)
How we handle spellings, festival selection, former ranks and map accuracy is set out once on the About page.