Awa Province (Tokushima) Reference entry
Ichinomiya Jinja
一宮神社
Ichinomiya Jinja is listed here for reference under the former Awa Province (Tokushima), in present-day Tokushima. It is not on the Ichinomiya Junpaikai’s list. We could not confirm whether it has a car park. Without a car, a local tourism body gives 1 route from a station (by bus); the station names are listed below. We found 1 entry for the shrine in Japan’s national database of designated cultural properties. The nearest other ichinomiya is Yakurahime Jinja, 2.0 km to the north 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.
No primary source found.
Getting there
徳島県徳島市一宮町西丁244
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 一宮神社. Not checked on the ground
- Address
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By train and bus
- From 徳島駅
- By bus.
The source, word for word (bus stop names included):
JR徳島駅→徳島市営バス一宮または入田行き「札所前」下車すぐ
Taken from a local tourism body (一宮神社｜阿波ナビ, 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
We could not confirm whether it has a car park.
Visiting the 4 ichinomiya in Tokushima in one day? Work out an order that reaches each office before it closes →
History in brief
- History
- The shrine is said to have been honored as the birth shrine of the second lord of the Awa domain.
- Buildings
- The main sanctuary and hall of worship were also built by the domain lord.
Summarised from a local tourism body (一宮神社, checked 2026-10-08). Traditions are given as the shrine tells them, not as established history.
Enshrined deities
- Ogetsuhime-no-Okami 大宜津比売命 3 ichinomiya enshrine this deity →
Tokushima Prefecture's tourism site gives the deity as Ōgetsuhime-no-Mikoto, ancestral goddess of Awa.
Our English summary of the Japanese description. Spelling as given by the prefectural shrine office or local authority.
Nationally designated cultural properties
- 一宮神社本殿
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Important Cultural Property
三間社流造、正面千鳥破風付、向拝一間、唐破風造、銅板葺
designated 1993-04-20 · early Edo period
Source: the national register. All of them together →
Nearest ichinomiya
The closest is Yakurahime Jinja, about 2.0 km to the north in a straight line, in the same province. After that come Kami Ichinomiya Oawa Jinja (12 km south-west) and Oasahiko Jinja (15 km north).
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.
Not found on the map published by the Ichinomiya Pilgrimage Association.
Awa Navi calls it “the ancestral deity of Awa” and gives its deity as Ōgetsuhime no Mikoto, but does not use the words “ichinomiya of Awa Province”. It is of the same deity line as Kami Ichinomiya Oawa Jinja, but no primary source describing the relationship between the two could be found.
- https://www.awanavi.jp/archives/spot/2758 (checked 2026-10-15)
- 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 Awa Province (Tokushima) page.
Historical rank
- Province
- Awa Province (Tokushima) (Nankaidō)
- Prefecture
- Tokushima
- Engishiki (927)
- Shōsha
- Former state rank (1871–1946)
- Kensha
Sources
- https://www.awanavi.jp/archives/spot/2758 (checked 2026-09-10)
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