Kawachi Province Reference entry
Katano Jinja
片埜神社
Katano Jinja is listed here for reference under the former Kawachi Province, in present-day Osaka. It is not on the Ichinomiya Junpaikai’s list. It has a car park; the sources we checked give neither its size nor a fee. Opening hours end at 16:00 (charm counter). Without a car, the shrine's own website gives 1 route from a station (on foot), one of them a walk of 5 min; the station names are listed below. Its principal annual festival (reisai) falls on October 15 every year. We found 1 entry for the shrine in Japan’s national database of designated cultural properties. The nearest other ichinomiya is Hiraoka Jinja, 19 km to the south 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.
Its own name was once “Ichinomiya”.
Getting there
大阪府枚方市牧野阪２丁目２１−１５
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 牧野駅京阪電車
- On foot, 5 min.
The source, word for word (bus stop names included):
京阪電車「牧野」駅 徒歩５分 駐車場あり
Taken from the shrine's own website (片埜神社 公式サイト トップ, 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.
台数・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 16:00 (charm counter).
The full note from the source, in Japanese:
9:00-16:00（授与所。1月9〜11日のえびす祭期間は 9:00-20:00）
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
- According to the shrine's tradition, Nomi-no-Sukune of Izumo enshrined Takehaya-Susanoo here in Emperor Suinin's reign as guardian of the Haji clan.
- Name
- In the late Heian period, its name was changed to Ichinomiya.
- History
- In 1583 (Tenshō 11), Toyotomi Hideyoshi designated it the shrine guarding the unlucky northeast of Osaka Castle.
- Buildings
- In 1602 (Keichō 7), Toyotomi Hideyori donated a major rebuilding, including the main sanctuary.
Summarised from the shrine's own website (片埜神社 由緒, checked 2026-10-08). Traditions are given as the shrine tells them, not as established history.
Enshrined deities
- Susano-no-Mikoto 建速須佐之男命 4 ichinomiya enshrine this deity →
- Sugawara no Michizane 菅原道真公
- Kotoshironushi-Mikoto 事代主大神 6 ichinomiya enshrine this deity →
Spelling as given by the shrine's own website.
Goshuin (shrine seal)
- Available
- Yes
Nationally designated cultural properties
- 片埜神社本殿
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Important Cultural Property
三間社流造、檜皮葺
designated 1917-04-05 · Momoyama period
Source: the national register. All of them together →
Festivals
- Principal annual festival
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10月15日 秋祭本宮（例大祭）
source
Other festivals and rituals
- 秋祭宵宮
- 10月14日
- えびす祭
- 1月9・10・11日
- とんど祭
- 1月15日
- 春祭
- 4月15日
- 鎮火祭
- 12月13日
Nearest ichinomiya
The closest is Hiraoka Jinja, about 19 km to the south in a straight line, in the same province. After that come Ikasuri Jinja (24 km south-west) and Kamomioya Jinja (24 km north-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.
Not found on the map published by the Ichinomiya Pilgrimage Association.
Osaka Bunkazai Navi, the cultural properties site of Osaka Prefecture, says that “in the late Heian period it was renamed ‘Ichinomiya,’ and in the Meiji period it returned to its present name, ‘Katano Jinja.’” This may refer to ‘Ichinomiya’ as the shrine’s own name rather than to its being the ichinomiya of the province.
- https://osaka-bunkazainavi.org/bunkazai/片埜神社 (checked 2026-09-09)
- https://www.osaka-jinjacho.jp/funai_jinja/dai3shibu/hirakata-city/03002katanojinja.html (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 Kawachi Province page.
Historical rank
- Province
- Kawachi Province (Kinai)
- Prefecture
- Osaka
- Engishiki (927)
- Shōsha
- Former state rank (1871–1946)
- Fusha
Sources
- https://osaka-bunkazainavi.org/bunkazai/片埜神社 (checked 2026-09-09)
- https://www.osaka-jinjacho.jp/funai_jinja/dai3shibu/hirakata-city/03002katanojinja.html (checked 2026-09-09)
- https://www.katanojinja.com/ (checked 2026-09-09)
- https://www.katanojinja.com/blank-3 (checked 2026-09-10)
How we handle spellings, festival selection, former ranks and map accuracy is set out once on the About page.