Shima Province Ichinomiya (auxiliary shrine)
Izawanomiya
伊雑宮
Izawanomiya is the ichinomiya — the leading shrine — of the former Shima Province, in present-day Mie. It has a car park; the sources we checked give neither its size nor a fee. Opening hours end at 18:00 (charm counter; 17:00 from October to December). Without a car, the shrine's own website gives 1 route from a station (on foot), one of them a walk of 3 min; the station names are listed below. We found 2 entries for the shrine in Japan’s national database of designated cultural properties. The nearest other ichinomiya is Izawa Jinja, 11 km to the north-east in a straight line.
Getting there
三重県志摩市磯部町上之郷374
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 上之郷駅近鉄
- On foot, 3 min.
The source, word for word (bus stop names included):
近鉄上之郷駅より徒歩3分
Taken from the shrine's own website (ABOUT JINGU（別宮・伊雑宮）| 神宮, 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; the sources we checked give neither its size nor a fee.
神宮公式の別宮紹介ページには駐車場の記載がなく、観光三重（三重県観光連盟）に「駐車場：有」とあるのみです。台数・料金・位置は一次ソースで確認できませんでした。
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 18:00 (charm counter; 17:00 from October to December).
The full note from the source, in Japanese:
授与時間 6:00-18:00（10〜12月は17:00まで。宿衛屋）／参拝時間 10〜12月 5:00-17:00／1〜4月・9月 5:00-18:00／5〜8月 5:00-19:00（お正月中は時間の変更あり）
Closing times of every ichinomiya, earliest first →
Visiting the 5 ichinomiya in Mie in one day? Work out an order that reaches each office before it closes →
History in brief
- Founding
- It is said that when Yamatohime-no-Mikoto toured Shima Province, she had Izawatomi-no-Mikoto build the shrine.
- History
- It has long been revered as a tōnomiya, a distant shrine of Amaterasu.
- Buildings
- Its periodic rebuilding (shikinen sengū) was carried out in autumn of Heisei 26.
Summarised from a local tourism body (伊雑宮｜観光三重, checked 2026-10-08). Traditions are given as the shrine tells them, not as established history.
Enshrined deities
- Amaterasuomikaminomitama 天照大御神御魂
Jingū (the Ise shrines) describes Izawanomiya as enshrining the spirit of Amaterasu Ōmikami. It is also called Izōgū.
Our English summary of the Japanese description. Spelling as given by the shrine's own website.
Goshuin (shrine seal)
- Available
- Yes
Nationally designated cultural properties
- 磯部の御神田
- Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property (folk performing arts)
- 磯部の御神田
- Intangible Folk Cultural Property selected for recording (folk performing arts)
Source: the national register. All of them together →
Festivals
- Principal annual festival
-
6月24日（6月月次祭当日） 御田植式
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
- 伊雑宮調献式
- 10月25日
- 伊雑宮御田植式
- 6月24日
Nearest ichinomiya
The closest is Izawa Jinja, about 11 km to the north-east in a straight line, in the same province. After that come Tsubaki Nakato Jinja (61 km north) and Tsubaki Okamiyashiro (73 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
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 official position of the Jingu (Ise Jingu) is that it is a betsugu (auxiliary shrine) of the Kotai Jingu and a tonomiya; there is no mention of ichinomiya. No primary source for calling it the ichinomiya of Shima Province could be found.
- https://www.isejingu.or.jp/about/outerbetsugu/ (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 Shima Province page.
Historical rank
- Province
- Shima Province (Tōkaidō)
- Prefecture
- Mie
- Engishiki (927)
- Auxiliary shrine of Ise Jingū
- Former state rank (1871–1946)
- Jingū / auxiliary
Sources
- https://www.isejingu.or.jp/about/outerbetsugu/ (checked 2026-09-09)
- https://www.kankomie.or.jp/spot/22402 (checked 2026-09-09)
- https://www.kankomie.or.jp/spot/2939 (checked 2026-09-10)
- https://www.isejingu.or.jp/about/outerbetsugu/ (checked 2026-10-29)
How we handle spellings, festival selection, former ranks and map accuracy is set out once on the About page.