Hida Province Ichinomiya
Hida Ichinomiya Minashi Jinja
飛騨一宮水無神社
Hida Ichinomiya Minashi Jinja is the ichinomiya — the leading shrine — of the former Hida Province, in present-day Gifu. It has a car park (about 100 spaces), free. Opening hours end at 16:30 (charms and goshuin). Without a car, the shrine's own website gives 2 routes from a station (by bus); the station names are listed below. Its principal annual festival (reisai) falls on May 1–2 every year. We found 1 entry for the shrine in Japan’s national database of designated cultural properties. The nearest other ichinomiya is Oyama Jinja Chugu Kiganden, 57 km to the north in a straight line.
Getting there
岐阜県高山市一之宮町 5323
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
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- Coordinates
- From OpenStreetMap, as 飛騨一宮水無神社. Not checked on the ground
- Address
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By train and bus
- From 高山駅JR
- By bus.
- From 飛騨一ノ宮駅JR
- See the Japanese text below.
The source, word for word (bus stop names included):
◇ＪＲ高山駅より濃飛バスをご利用の場合 ※ＪＲ高山駅（発）飛騨一之宮バス停（行）の濃飛バスが運行します。 ◇ＪＲ高山駅より普通列車をご利用の場合 ※ＪＲ飛騨一ノ宮駅は、特急列車が停車しないため、ＪＲ高山駅よりＪＲ飛騨一ノ宮駅まで普通列車で戻る必要があります。
Taken from the shrine's own website (access - 飛騨一宮水無神社, 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 100 spaces), free.
Shrine office hours
Opening hours end at 16:30 (charms and goshuin).
The full note from the source, in Japanese:
8:30-16:30（神符守札・御朱印）／祈祷受付 9:00-16:00
Closing times of every ichinomiya, earliest first →
Visiting the 2 ichinomiya in Gifu in one day? Work out an order that reaches each office before it closes →
History in brief
- Founding
- The shrine is said to date from the age of the gods, but old records were lost and details are uncertain.
- Buildings
- Kanamori Nagachika, lord of Takayama, undertook the rebuilding of the shrine in 1607.
- History
- During the Ohara Uprising, a peasant revolt of 1773, the shrine became a mass meeting place, and two priests were punished for involvement.
- History
- At the end of World War II and just after, the sacred object of Atsuta Jingu was temporarily evacuated to this shrine.
Summarised from the shrine's own website (飛騨一宮水無神社 由緒（description）, checked 2026-10-08). Traditions are given as the shrine tells them, not as established history.
Enshrined deities
- Mitoshi-no-Okami 御歳大神
- Onamuchi-no-Mikoto 大己貴命 shares the hall 17 ichinomiya enshrine this deity →
- Jimmu-Tenno 神武天皇 shares the hall
- Ojin-Tenno 応神天皇 shares the hall 10 ichinomiya enshrine this deity →
- Amenohoakari-no-Mikoto 天火明命 shares the hall 2 ichinomiya enshrine this deity →
- Mihotsuhime-no-Mikoto 三穂津姫命 shares the hall 3 ichinomiya enshrine this deity →
- Takateruhime-no-Mikoto 高照光姫命 shares the hall
- 高降姫命 高降姫命 shares the hall
- 須沼比女命 須沼比女命 shares the hall
- Otoshi-no-Okami 大歳大神 shares the hall
- Amaterasu-Okami 天照皇大神 shares the hall 10 ichinomiya enshrine this deity →
- Toyoke-Okami 豊受姫大神 shares the hall 3 ichinomiya enshrine this deity →
- Sukunahikona-no-Mikoto 少彦名命 shares the hall 5 ichinomiya enshrine this deity →
- Amenokumanoshi-no-Mikoto 天熊大人命 shares the hall
- Oyahashi-no-Mikoto 大八椅命 shares the hall
The shrine's website notes two views of the name Minashi Ōkami: that it refers to the principal deity Mitoshi-no-Ōkami, or to all fifteen deities of the shrine together. It also records the view that Minashi is the guardian spirit of the province of Hida.
Our English summary of the Japanese description. Spelling as given by the shrine's own website.
Goshuin (shrine seal)
- Available
- Yes
- Hours
- 8:30-16:30
Nationally designated cultural properties
- 水無神社の神事芸能
- Intangible Folk Cultural Property selected for recording (folk performing arts)
Source: the national register. All of them together →
Festivals
- Principal annual festival
-
5月1・2日 試楽祭・例祭
source
Other festivals and rituals
- 雛祭、養蚕祭（生きびな祭）
- 4月3日
- 粥占祭
- 1月14日
- 左儀長祭
- 1月第2日曜日
- 風神祭
- 8月23日
- 蚕糸農業祭
- 11月8日
Nearest ichinomiya
The closest is Oyama Jinja Chugu Kiganden, about 57 km to the north in a straight line, the ichinomiya of Ecchu Province. After that come Oyama Jinja Satomiya Maetate Shadan (58 km north) and Takase Jinja (61 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
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 Hida Province page.
Historical rank
- Province
- Hida Province (Tōsandō)
- Prefecture
- Gifu
- Engishiki (927)
- Myōjin Taisha
- Former state rank (1871–1946)
- Kokuhei Shōsha
Sources
- https://minashijinjya.or.jp/access.html (checked 2026-09-09)
- https://minashijinjya.or.jp/description.html (checked 2026-09-10)
How we handle spellings, festival selection, former ranks and map accuracy is set out once on the About page.