Ecchu Province Claimant (ronsha)
Keta Jinja
氣多神社
Keta Jinja is one of the shrines claimed as the ichinomiya — the leading shrine — of the former Ecchu Province, in present-day Toyama. It has a car park (about 100 spaces); the sources we checked do not give a fee. Without a car, a local tourism body gives 1 route from a station (on foot), one of them a walk of 25 min; the station names are listed below. Its principal annual festival (reisai) falls on April 18 every year. We found 1 entry for the shrine in Japan’s national database of designated cultural properties. The nearest other ichinomiya is Imizu Jinja, 6.0 km to the south in a straight line.
Getting there
富山県高岡市伏木一宮１丁目１０−１
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 伏木駅JR氷見線
- On foot, 25 min.
The source, word for word (bus stop names included):
■JR氷見線伏木駅から徒歩25分
Taken from a local tourism body (気多神社｜高岡市観光協会, 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 100 spaces); the sources we checked do not give a fee.
This routes you to the car park, not to the hall. From this car park to the hall is about 70 m in a straight line (the walk is longer). The location is taken from OpenStreetMap and has not been checked on the ground.
複数。氣多神社駐車場 30台／ふれあいの杜駐車場 40台＋30台（大型バス可）。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.
Visiting the 5 ichinomiya in Toyama in one day? Work out an order that reaches each office before it closes →
History in brief
- Founding
- The shrine's tradition records that it was founded by imperial vow in 717, in the reign of Empress Gensho.
- Founding
- The shrine says that when Noto was separated from Etchu, a divided spirit was brought from Noto and the shrine was revived.
- Buildings
- At the end of the Juei era (1184), the shrine and its temples were burned in fighting by Kiso Yoshinaka's forces.
- Buildings
- In 1645, Maeda Toshitsune, third lord of Kaga, rebuilt the dilapidated main hall and worship hall.
Summarised from the shrine's own website (紹介 - 越中國一宮 氣多神社 | 富山県高岡市伏木, checked 2026-10-08). Traditions are given as the shrine tells them, not as established history.
Enshrined deities
- Onamuchi-no-Mikoto 大己貴命 17 ichinomiya enshrine this deity →
- Nunakawahime-no-Mikoto 奴奈加波比賣命
- Kotoshironushi-Mikoto 事代主命 shares the hall 6 ichinomiya enshrine this deity →
- Kukurihime-no-Mikoto 菊理媛命 shares the hall
The shrine's website gives the principal deities as Ōnamuchi-no-Mikoto and Nunakawahime-no-Mikoto, with Kotoshironushi and Kukurihime in the same hall.
Our English summary of the Japanese description. Spelling as given by the shrine's own website.
Nationally designated cultural properties
- 気多神社本殿
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Important Cultural Property
三間社流造、向拝一間、こけら葺
designated 1931-01-19 · late Muromachi period
Source: the national register. All of them together →
Festivals
- Principal annual festival
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4月18日 春季例大祭
source
Other festivals and rituals
- 左義長
- 1月第2土曜日
- にらみ獅子
- 4月18日
- 秋季例大祭
- 9月25日
Nearest ichinomiya
The closest is Imizu Jinja, about 6.0 km to the south in a straight line, in the same province. After that come Takase Jinja (27 km south) and Keta Taisha (29 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
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 says that “in 732 (Tenpyō 4) a divided spirit was invited here from Keta Taisha, the ichinomiya of Noto Province, and it became Keta Jinja, the ichinomiya of Ecchu Province”, and that “in 927 (Enchō 5) this shrine was entered in the shrine register as the one myōjin taisha among the thirty-four shrines of Ecchu Province”. Imizu Jinja also calls itself the only myōjin taisha in Ecchu, and the two claims cannot both hold.
- https://ketaweb.net/about/ (checked 2026-09-09)
- https://www.takaoka.or.jp/viewpoint/detail_3394.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 Ecchu Province page.
Historical rank
- Province
- Ecchu Province (Hokurikudō)
- Prefecture
- Toyama
- Engishiki (927)
- Myōjin Taisha
- Former state rank (1871–1946)
- Kensha
Sources
- https://ketaweb.net/about/ (checked 2026-09-09)
- https://www.takaoka.or.jp/viewpoint/detail_3394.html (checked 2026-09-09)
How we handle spellings, festival selection, former ranks and map accuracy is set out once on the About page.