Izu Province Ichinomiya
Mishima Taisha
三嶋大社
Mishima Taisha is the ichinomiya — the leading shrine — of the former Izu Province, in present-day Shizuoka. It has a car park (about 55 spaces), paid. Opening hours end at 16:00 (prayer-rite desk). Without a car, the shrine's own website gives 2 routes from a station (on foot), one of them a walk of about 15 min; the station names are listed below. Its principal annual festival (reisai) falls on August 16 every year. We found 6 entries for the shrine in Japan’s national database of designated cultural properties, 1 of them National Treasure. The nearest other ichinomiya is Fujisan Hongu Sengen Taisha, 30 km to the north-west in a straight line.
Getting there
静岡県三島市大宮町2-1-5
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 三島駅JR東海道新幹線、東海道線
- On foot, about 15 min.
- From 三島田町駅伊豆箱根鉄道
- On foot, about 7 min.
The source, word for word (bus stop names included):
・JR東海道新幹線、東海道線「三島駅」から徒歩約15分 ・伊豆箱根鉄道「三島田町駅」から徒歩約7分
Taken from the shrine's own website (アクセス | 三嶋大社, 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 55 spaces), paid.
This routes you to the car park, not to the hall. From this car park to the hall is about 50 m in a straight line (the walk is longer). The location is taken from OpenStreetMap and has not been checked on the ground.
乗用車 約55台、大型車13台。小型車 200円/1時間（令和8年4月1日以降は300円/1時間）、大型車 1,000円/1時間。12/31〜1/3と例祭期間8/15〜8/17は閉鎖（正月は市内に無料臨時駐車場を開設）
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 (prayer-rite desk).
The full note from the source, in Japanese:
祈祷受付 8:30頃-16:00（授与所の時間は確認できず）
Closing times of every ichinomiya, earliest first →
Visiting the 4 ichinomiya in Shizuoka in one day? Work out an order that reaches each office before it closes →
History in brief
- Founding
- The founding date is unknown; the shrine says its worship arose from beliefs tied to volcanic island-building and sea travel between the Izu Peninsula and islands.
- History
- At the end of the Heian period, Minamoto no Yoritomo, exiled to Izu, revered the shrine and prayed for the revival of the Minamoto clan.
- History
- In the Edo period, facing the Tōkaidō at the start of the Shimoda Kaidō, the name Mishima Daimyōjin became widely known.
- Buildings
- The shrine says the halls collapsed in the Tōkai earthquake of November 1854 and were rebuilt over ten years at a cost of 16,677 ryō.
Summarised from the shrine's own website (三嶋大社について｜三嶋大社, checked 2026-10-08). Traditions are given as the shrine tells them, not as established history.
Enshrined deities
- Oyamazumi-no-Kami 大山祇命 5 ichinomiya enshrine this deity →
- Kotoshironushi-Mikoto 積羽八重事代主神 6 ichinomiya enshrine this deity →
The shrine's website says Ōyamatsumi-no-Mikoto and Tsumihayae-Kotoshironushi-no-Kami are enshrined together and called, as a pair, Mishima Daimyōjin.
Our English summary of the Japanese description. Spelling as given by the shrine's own website.
Nationally designated cultural properties
- 三嶋大社本殿、幣殿及び拝殿
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Important Cultural Property
本殿 三間社流造、銅板葺 幣殿 桁行三間、梁間一間、一重、両下造、銅板葺 拝殿 桁行七間、梁間四間、一重、入母屋造、正面千鳥破風付、向拝三間、 軒唐破風付、銅板葺
designated 2000-05-25 · end of the Edo period - 梅蒔絵手箱
- National Treasure
- 三嶋大社矢田部家文書
- Important Cultural Property
- 太刀〈銘宗忠／〉
- Important Cultural Property
- 脇指〈銘相模国住秋義／伊豆三島大明神奉拝佐藤松千代貞成〉
- Important Cultural Property
- 般若心経（源頼家筆）
- Important Cultural Property
Source: the national register. All of them together →
Festivals
- Principal annual festival
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8月16日 例祭
source
Other festivals and rituals
- 例祭期間
- 8月15日・16日・17日
- 手筒花火神事
- 8月16日
- 流鏑馬神事
- 8月17日
- 田祭
- 1月7日
- 奉射祭
- 1月17日
Nearest ichinomiya
The closest is Fujisan Hongu Sengen Taisha, about 30 km to the north-west in a straight line, the ichinomiya of Suruga Province. After that come Samukawa Jinja (51 km north-east) and Sengen Jinja (62 km north).
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 Izu Province page.
Historical rank
- Province
- Izu Province (Tōkaidō)
- Prefecture
- Shizuoka
- Engishiki (927)
- Myōjin Taisha
- Former state rank (1871–1946)
- Kanpei Taisha
Sources
- https://www.mishimataisha.or.jp/access (checked 2026-09-09)
- https://www.mishima-kankou.com/spot/1605/ (checked 2026-09-09)
- http://www.mishimataisha.or.jp/shrine (checked 2026-09-10)
How we handle spellings, festival selection, former ranks and map accuracy is set out once on the About page.