Musashi Province Reference entry
Ono Jinja
小野神社
Ono Jinja is listed here for reference under the former Musashi Province, in present-day Tokyo. 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 (prayer-rite desk). Without a car, the shrine's own website gives 1 route from a station (on foot), one of them a walk of 6 min; the station names are listed below. The nearest other ichinomiya is Samukawa Jinja, 31 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.
The shrine claims the title.
Getting there
東京都多摩市一ノ宮１丁目１８−８
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:
道路工事などにより駐車場が使用できない日があります（公式サイトで随時告知）。お出かけ前に公式サイトの告知をご確認ください。
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 聖蹟桜ヶ丘駅京王線
- On foot, 6 min.
The source, word for word (bus stop names included):
＜電車でお越しの方＞ 京王線 聖蹟桜ヶ丘駅西口より 徒歩6分
Taken from the shrine's own website (交通のご案内 – 武蔵國一之宮小野神社, 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; the sources we checked give neither its size nor a fee.
公式サイトのアクセスページには駐車場の記載がありませんが、トップページに「7/13(月)道路工事に伴い駐車場ご使用いただけません。」という告知が出ることから、参拝者用の駐車場はあるものの日によって使えないことがあります。台数・料金・位置は公式に記載がありません。
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 9:30-16:00（電話受付 9:00-16:30）
Closing times of every ichinomiya, earliest first →
Combining it with the 3 other ichinomiya within 80 km? Work out an order that reaches each office before it closes →
History in brief
- Founding
- According to the shrine's tradition, it was established in the 18th year of Emperor Annei's reign.
- History
- The name comes from Ono no Sato, the ancient name of this area. In the eighth year of Gangyo, the shrine received a court rank.
- History
- According to the shrine's tradition, in the sixth year of Eisho, Minamoto no Yoriyoshi, heading north as governor of Mutsu, stayed here with his son Yoshiie and dedicated a sword and a poem.
- Moved
- In Showa 39, the zuishin gate was rebuilt and the main hall and worship hall were moved back into the woodland, enlarging the grounds.
Summarised from the shrine's own website (武蔵國一之宮 小野神社 歴史・御由緒, checked 2026-10-08). Traditions are given as the shrine tells them, not as established history.
Enshrined deities
- Amenoshitaharu 天下春大神
- Seoritsuhime 瀬織津比咩大神
- Inakuratama-no-Okami 稲倉魂大神
The shrine's website says Amenoshitaharu-no-Ōkami, ancestral god of the settling of Musashi, is enshrined together with Seoritsuhime-no-Ōkami and Inakuratama-no-Ōkami. The home page calls them gods of settlement, water and good harvests, without saying which is which.
Our English summary of the Japanese description. Spelling as given by the shrine's own website.
Goshuin (shrine seal)
- Available
- Yes
Festivals
- Principal annual festival
-
令和8年9月12日(土)・13日(日) 例大祭
source
Other festivals and rituals
- 末社祭
- 令和八年四月五日（日）
Nearest ichinomiya
The closest is Samukawa Jinja, about 31 km to the south in a straight line, the ichinomiya of Sagami Province. After that come Hikawa Jinja (34 km north-east) and Hikawanyotai Jinja (35 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
The shrine names a historical document
No public body was found describing it this way, but the shrine names a historical document that calls it the ichinomiya. We have not read that document ourselves.
Not found on the map published by the Ichinomiya Pilgrimage Association.
The shrine’s own website gives as grounds the line “the ichinomiya is Ono Daimyōjin” in the Shintōshū (神道集) of the Nanboku-chō period, its listing in the Engishiki as one of the eight shrines of Musashi Province, and the first seat of the eastern hall it was given at the sōsha Rokushogu, where it was called ichinomiya.
- https://onojinja.or.jp/ (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 Musashi Province page.
Historical rank
- Province
- Musashi Province (Tōkaidō)
- Prefecture
- Tokyo
- Engishiki (927)
- Shōsha
- Former state rank (1871–1946)
- Gōsha
Sources
- https://onojinja.or.jp/ (checked 2026-09-09)
- https://onojinja.or.jp/gokitou/ (checked 2026-09-09)
- https://onojinja.or.jp/seal/ (checked 2026-09-09)
- https://onojinja.or.jp/access/ (checked 2026-09-10)
- https://onojinja.or.jp/about/ (checked 2026-09-10)
How we handle spellings, festival selection, former ranks and map accuracy is set out once on the About page.