Noto Province Ichinomiya
Keta Taisha
氣多大社
Keta Taisha is the ichinomiya — the leading shrine — of the former Noto Province, in present-day Ishikawa. It has a car park (about 200 spaces), free. Opening hours end at 16:30 (charm counter). Without a car, the shrine's own website gives 1 route from a station; the station names are listed below. Its principal annual festival (reisai) falls on April 3 every year. We found 2 entries for the shrine in Japan’s national database of designated cultural properties. The nearest other ichinomiya is Keta Jinja, 29 km to the south-east in a straight line.
Getting there
石川県羽咋市寺家町 ク 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 羽咋駅
- By car, about 10 min.
The source, word for word (bus stop names included):
最寄駅 羽咋駅から車で約10分／／最寄バス停 『一の宮』から徒歩約7分
Taken from the shrine's own website (氣多大社 公式サイト（アクセス）, 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 200 spaces), free.
The fee in the source’s own words: 「駐車場:無料（200台）」 (source, checked 2026-10-15).
This routes you to the car park, not to the hall. The location is taken from OpenStreetMap and has not been checked on the ground.
無料200台（2024年8月の公式のお知らせ）。羽咋市公式は「無料駐車場 300台」で、台数が食い違う
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 16:30 (charm counter).
The full note from the source, in Japanese:
8:30-16:30（年中無休）。1月1〜3日は24時間開門、1月4日以降は 8:30-16:30。開門時間中は授与所も開設
Closing times of every ichinomiya, earliest first →
Visiting the 2 ichinomiya in Ishikawa in one day? Work out an order that reaches each office before it closes →
History in brief
- History
- In 748, Otomo no Yakamochi, governor of Etchu, visited the shrine and composed a poem by the sea.
- History
- In 1217, Shogun Minamoto no Sanetomo donated more than 11 cho of public land.
- Buildings
- In 1561, the Hatakeyama clan, protectors of Noto, began rebuilding the shrine with imperial permission.
- History
- Maeda Toshiie and later Kaga lords revered the shrine, granting 350 koku of land and often building its halls.
Summarised from the shrine's own website (由緒 - 氣多大社, 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 →
The shrine's website gives Ōnamuchi-no-Mikoto as the one deity of the main hall. Susanoo and Kushinadahime, Kotoshironushi, and Kukurihime are enshrined in subsidiary shrines, not in the main hall.
Our English summary of the Japanese description. Spelling as given by the shrine's own website.
Nationally designated cultural properties
- 後奈良天皇女房奉書（のとのくに云々）
- Important Cultural Property
- 気多の鵜祭の習俗
- Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property (manners and customs)
Source: the national register. All of them together →
Festivals
- Principal annual festival
-
四月三日 例大祭
source
Other festivals and rituals
- 平国祭おいでまつり
- 三月十七〜二十三日
- 鎮花祭
- 四月四日
- 心むすび大祭
- 八月十三・十四日
- 鵜祭
- 十二月十六日
- いらずの森氣の葉祭
- 十二月二十九・三十・三十一日
Nearest ichinomiya
The closest is Keta Jinja, about 29 km to the south-east in a straight line, the ichinomiya of Ecchu Province. After that come Imizu Jinja (30 km south-east) and Takase Jinja (42 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
Listed by the pilgrimage association
It appears on the map published by the Ichinomiya Pilgrimage Association. We have not yet checked other primary sources.
- 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 Noto Province page.
Historical rank
- Province
- Noto Province (Hokurikudō)
- Prefecture
- Ishikawa
- Engishiki (927)
- Myōjin Taisha
- Former state rank (1871–1946)
- Kokuhei Taisha
Sources
- https://keta.jp/inportant/2020/806/ (checked 2026-09-09)
- https://keta.jp/access/ (checked 2026-09-09)
- https://keta.jp/history/ (checked 2026-09-10)
- https://keta.jp/%E6%9C%AA%E5%88%86%E9%A1%9E/2024/1662/ (checked 2026-10-15)
How we handle spellings, festival selection, former ranks and map accuracy is set out once on the About page.