Owari Province Ichinomiya
Masumida Jinja
真清田神社
Masumida Jinja is the ichinomiya — the leading shrine — of the former Owari Province, in present-day Aichi. It has a car park (about 80 spaces), paid. Opening hours end at 17:00 (shrine office). Its principal annual festival (reisai) falls on April 3 every year. We found 5 entries for the shrine in Japan’s national database of designated cultural properties. The nearest other ichinomiya is Omiwa Jinja (Owari), 1.9 km to the south-west in a straight line.
Getting there
愛知県一宮市真清田1-2-1
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.
Before you drive here
There is a notice about reaching this shrine by car — it may concern road closures at New Year, vehicle size limits, which way you can turn into the car park, or satellite navigation giving the wrong place. The Japanese text reads:
駐車場へは神社の西側から入場します（「神社西よりご入場できます」）。
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
The source, word for word (bus stop names included):
・名鉄「名鉄一宮」駅、JR「尾張一宮」駅より徒歩8分 ・名鉄バス「本町」バス停より徒歩2分
Taken from a local tourism body (真清田神社 | 観光スポット | 【公式】一宮市の公式観光サイト IchinomiyaNAVI, 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 80 spaces), paid.
専用駐車場があり、普通車80台・バス5台。普通車は1時間200円、以降30分毎100円（バスは2,000円）。支払いは現金のみで、5,000円を超える紙幣は使えません。台数に限りがあり、満車時は利用できません。ご祈祷など社用の方は受付でその旨を申し出てください。※愛知県の観光公式サイトには「1時間100円」との記載もあり、料金は現地で要確認です。
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 17:00 (shrine office).
The full note from the source, in Japanese:
9:00-17:00（公式FAQ）※一宮市観光サイトは 9:00-16:00 と記載しており食い違いがある
Closing times of every ichinomiya, earliest first →
Visiting the 3 ichinomiya in Aichi in one day? Work out an order that reaches each office before it closes →
History in brief
- Buildings
- In 1631 (Kan'ei 8), Tokugawa Yoshinao, lord of Owari, built the shrine halls.
- Buildings
- All of its buildings were destroyed in the air raids of 1945.
- Buildings
- Work on the new main sanctuary began in March of Shōwa 28, and the deity was moved into it in November of Shōwa 32.
- History
- In the Kamakura period, Emperor Juntoku donated many bugaku dance masks.
Summarised from the local authority (真清田神社本殿及び渡殿｜愛知県の国・県指定文化財と国の登録文化財, checked 2026-10-08). Traditions are given as the shrine tells them, not as established history.
Enshrined deities
- Amenohoakari-no-Mikoto 天火明命 2 ichinomiya enshrine this deity →
Spelling as given by the prefectural shrine office or local authority.
Nationally designated cultural properties
- 木造舞楽面〈陵王一、納曽利一、還城楽一、／崑崙八仙三、童舞二、二ノ舞二、／貴徳一、散手一、〉
- Important Cultural Property
- ｛朱漆角切盤／朱漆入角盤／朱漆擎子｝
- Important Cultural Property
- 真清田神社北門及び透塀
- Registered Tangible Cultural Property (religious building)
- 真清田神社本殿及び渡殿
- Registered Tangible Cultural Property (religious building)
- 真清田神社祭文殿
- Registered Tangible Cultural Property (religious building)
Source: the national register. All of them together →
Festivals
- Principal annual festival
-
4月3日 桃花祭
source
Other festivals and rituals
- おりもの感謝祭 一宮七夕まつり
- 2026年7月23日(木)～26日(日)
Nearest ichinomiya
The closest is Omiwa Jinja (Owari), about 1.9 km to the south-west in a straight line, in the same province. After that come Nangu Taisha (26 km west) and Tsubaki Nakato Jinja (49 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
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 Ichinomiya, explaining the origin of its name, says that “because the ‘ichinomiya’ of Owari Province was Masumida Jinja, this area, the town in front of its gate, came in time to be called ‘Ichinomiya.’”
- https://www.city.ichinomiya.aichi.jp/sougouseisaku/koho/1044318/1044319/1002713.html (checked 2026-09-09)
- https://aichinow.pref.aichi.jp/spots/detail/302/ (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 Owari Province page.
Historical rank
- Province
- Owari Province (Tōkaidō)
- Prefecture
- Aichi
- Engishiki (927)
- Myōjin Taisha
- Former state rank (1871–1946)
- Kokuhei Chūsha
Sources
- https://www.city.ichinomiya.aichi.jp/sougouseisaku/koho/1044318/1044319/1002713.html (checked 2026-09-09)
- https://aichinow.pref.aichi.jp/spots/detail/302/ (checked 2026-09-09)
- http://www.masumida.or.jp/faq/ (checked 2026-09-09)
- https://www.138ss.com/spot/detail/67/ (checked 2026-09-09)
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