Jinja Navi 神社ナビ

Tajima Province Ichinomiya

Izushi Jinja

出石神社

Izushi Jinja is the ichinomiya — the leading shrine — of the former Tajima Province, in present-day Hyogo. We could not confirm whether it has a car park. Its principal annual festival (reisai) falls on October 20 every year. We found 1 entry for the shrine in Japan’s national database of designated cultural properties. The nearest other ichinomiya is Awaga Jinja, 20 km to the south in a straight line.

Getting there

兵庫県豊岡市出石町宮内 99

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.

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For a car navigation system

Phone
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Coordinates
From OpenStreetMap, as 出石神社. Not checked on the ground
Address

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By train and bus

The primary sources we checked describe the way here only by car, not by public transport.

Parking

We could not confirm whether it has a car park.

出典にした資料には駐車場の記載が見当たりませんでした（2026-10-15に読み直し）。地図データ（OpenStreetMap）には近くに駐車場が描かれていますが、参拝者が使えるかは確認できていません。

The note above is in Japanese; it usually records dates when the car park is closed, and the fee.

Visiting the 4 ichinomiya in Hyogo in one day? Work out an order that reaches each office before it closes →

History in brief

History
The shrine says various records suggest it was already one of the major shrines of the San'in region in the Nara period.

Summarised from the prefectural shrine association (兵庫県神社庁 出石神社, checked 2026-10-08). Traditions are given as the shrine tells them, not as established history.

Enshrined deities

  • Izushiyamae-no-Okami 出石八前大神
  • Amenohiboko-no-Mikoto 天日槍命 also enshrined

The prefectural shrine association gives the deities as Izushi Yamae-no-Ōkami with Ame-no-Hiboko. Toyooka City describes Ame-no-Hiboko, ancestral god of the development of Tajima, as enshrined with eight treasures.

Our English summary of the Japanese description. Spelling as given by the prefectural shrine office or local authority.

Nationally designated cultural properties

脇指〈銘但州住国光（外ニ梵字アリ）／〉
Important Cultural Property

Source: the national register. All of them together →

Festivals

Principal annual festival
10月20日　例祭
source

Ichinomiya festivals in October →

Nearest ichinomiya

The closest is Awaga Jinja, about 20 km to the south in a straight line, in the same province. After that come Kono Jinja (32 km east) and Manai Jinja (32 km east).

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

Documented by a public source

A public body — the city, the prefecture, or the prefectural shrine office — describes this shrine as the ichinomiya of its province.

Listed on the map published by the Ichinomiya Pilgrimage Association.

The city of Toyooka says that “as the ichinomiya of Tajima Province it enshrines Ame no Hiboko, the ancestral deity of the opening up of Tajima, together with eight treasures”. The Hyogo Prefectural Museum of History also calls it “the shrine that is the Tajima ichinomiya”.

More on how the shrines of this province relate to one another is on the Tajima Province page.

Historical rank

Province
Tajima Province (San'indō)
Prefecture
Hyogo
Engishiki (927)
Myōjin Taisha
Former state rank (1871–1946)
Kokuhei Chūsha

Sources

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