Settsu Province Ichinomiya
Ikasuri Jinja
坐摩神社
Ikasuri Jinja is the ichinomiya — the leading shrine — of the former Settsu Province, in present-day Osaka. It has a car park (about 5 spaces), paid. 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 3 min; the station names are listed below. Its principal annual festival (reisai) falls on April 22 every year. The nearest other ichinomiya is Sumiyoshi Taisha, 7.6 km to the south in a straight line.
Getting there
大阪府大阪市中央区久太郎町４丁目渡辺３ 渡辺3号
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
- 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 本町駅市営地下鉄
- On foot, 3 min.
- From 本町駅市営地下鉄
- On foot, 3 min.
The source, word for word (bus stop names included):
市営地下鉄本町駅１５番出口より西へ１つ目の角を左に折れ徒歩３分／市営地下鉄本町駅２１番出口より東へ２つ目の角を右に折れ徒歩３分
Taken from the shrine's own website (坐摩神社公式サイト〔大阪市・本町〕|交通案内・地図, 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 5 spaces), paid.
This routes you to the car park, not to the hall.
コイン式パーキング。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.
Shrine office hours
Opening hours end at 17:30 (shrine office).
The full note from the source, in Japanese:
平日 9:30-17:30／土日祝 9:30-17:00
Closing times of every ichinomiya, earliest first →
Visiting the 5 ichinomiya in Osaka in one day? Work out an order that reaches each office before it closes →
History in brief
- Founding
- Accounts vary, but the shrine says it began when Empress Jingū enshrined the deities at Watanabe, west of today's Tenmabashi, on her return from Silla.
- Moved
- In 1582 (Tenshō 10), Toyotomi Hideyoshi's building of Osaka Castle forced a move, and the shrine relocated to its present site in the Kan'ei era.
- History
- The present place name Watanabe was carried over from the old site, and the shrine calls it the birthplace of the Watanabe surname.
- Buildings
- The halls built in 1936 were restored in reinforced concrete in 1959, keeping their prewar form.
Summarised from the shrine's own website (御由緒｜坐摩神社, checked 2026-10-08). Traditions are given as the shrine tells them, not as established history.
Enshrined deities
- Ikasuri-no-Okami 坐摩大神
Spelling as given by the prefectural shrine office or local authority.
Goshuin (shrine seal)
- Available
- Yes
Festivals
- Principal annual festival
-
4月22日 例祭（献花祭）
source
Other festivals and rituals
- 例祭宵宮祭
- 4月21日
- 夏季大祭
- 7月22日
- 末社陶器神社例祭
- 7月23日
- 秋季大祭
- 10月22日
- 懸鳥祭
- 12月2日
Nearest ichinomiya
The closest is Sumiyoshi Taisha, about 7.6 km to the south in a straight line, in the same province. After that come Hiraoka Jinja (14 km east) and Otori Jinja (16 km south).
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
Claimed by the shrine
The shrine itself uses the title, but does not name the historical document it rests on.
Listed on the map published by the Ichinomiya Pilgrimage Association.
The shrine’s own website presents it as the ichinomiya of Settsu Province. The Shinbutsu Reijokai says it “is recorded in the Engishiki as the only taisha in Nishinari District of Settsu Province,” but that is a statement about shrine rank, not a source for the title of ichinomiya.
- https://www.ikasuri.or.jp/ (checked 2026-09-09)
- https://shinbutsureijou.com/reijou/ikasurijinja/ (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 Settsu Province page.
Historical rank
- Province
- Settsu Province (Kinai)
- Prefecture
- Osaka
- Engishiki (927)
- Myōjin Taisha
- Former state rank (1871–1946)
- Kanpei Chūsha
Sources
- https://www.ikasuri.or.jp/ (checked 2026-09-09)
- https://shinbutsureijou.com/reijou/ikasurijinja/ (checked 2026-09-09)
- https://www.ikasuri.or.jp/access.html (checked 2026-09-09)
- https://osaka-info.jp/spot/ikasurijinja (checked 2026-09-10)
- https://www.ikasuri.or.jp/yuisho.html (checked 2026-09-10)
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