Izumi Province Ichinomiya
Otori Jinja
大鳥神社
Otori Jinja is the ichinomiya — the leading shrine — of the former Izumi Province, in present-day Osaka. It has a car park (about 30 spaces), free. Opening hours end at 16:30 (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 about 5 min; the station names are listed below. Its principal annual festival (reisai) falls on August 13 every year. The nearest other ichinomiya is Sumiyoshi Taisha, 8.9 km to the north in a straight line.
Getting there
大阪府堺市西区鳳北町1-1-2
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
- 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 鳳駅JR阪和線
- On foot, about 5 min.
The source, word for word (bus stop names included):
JR阪和線 鳳駅 西出口より徒歩約5分／堺東～西区役所～光明池方面の鳳北口バス停から徒歩3分／西区役所～石津川駅前行き 大鳥神社前バス停から徒歩1分
Taken from the shrine's own website (大鳥大社へのアクセス - 大鳥大社, 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 30 spaces), free.
The fee in the source’s own words: 「無料駐車場が有ります。」 (source, checked 2026-10-15).
This routes you to the car park, not to the hall. From this car park to the hall is about 60 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30台、マイクロ・大型バス2台（バスは要予約）。無料（公式）。令和8年の正月は1月1日〜4日に神社の駐車場が使えず、1〜3日は阪和鳳自動車学校に臨時駐車場が設けられた（公式の初詣案内）
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 (prayer-rite desk).
The full note from the source, in Japanese:
祈祷受付 9:00-16:30（開門 5:30-18:00）
Closing times of every ichinomiya, earliest first →
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History in brief
- Founding
- According to the shrine's tradition, Yamato Takeru's spirit became a white bird that finally alighted here, and a shrine was built to worship him.
- History
- Taira no Kiyomori and his son Shigemori prayed here on the way to Kumano and offered poems and horses; the Oda, Toyotomi and Tokugawa donated land and buildings.
- Buildings
- The halls burned in warfare in the Tenshō era and were restored by Toyotomi Hideyori in 1602 (Keichō 7).
- Buildings
- The halls burned after a lightning strike in August of Meiji 38, and the present halls were rebuilt in the traditional style in Meiji 42.
Summarised from the shrine's own website (大鳥大社について｜大鳥大社, checked 2026-10-08). Traditions are given as the shrine tells them, not as established history.
Enshrined deities
- Yamatotakeru-no-Mikoto 日本武尊 5 ichinomiya enshrine this deity →
- Otorinomurajioyagami 大鳥連祖神
Spelling as given by the shrine's own website.
Goshuin (shrine seal)
- Available
- Yes
Festivals
- Principal annual festival
-
8月13日 例祭
source
Other festivals and rituals
- 花摘祭
- 4月第3土曜日
- 夏大祭
- 7月最終日曜日
- 美波比社例祭（地車宮入）
- 10月第１金曜日翌日
- 酉の日祭
- 11月酉の日
- 宗像祭
- 10月1日
Nearest ichinomiya
The closest is Sumiyoshi Taisha, about 8.9 km to the north in a straight line, the ichinomiya of Settsu Province. After that come Ikasuri Jinja (16 km north) and Hiraoka Jinja (23 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
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 Izumi Province page.
Historical rank
- Province
- Izumi Province (Kinai)
- Prefecture
- Osaka
- Engishiki (927)
- Myōjin Taisha
- Former state rank (1871–1946)
- Kanpei Taisha
Sources
- https://www.ootoritaisha.jp/ (checked 2026-09-09)
- https://www.sakai-tcb.or.jp/spot/detail/40 (checked 2026-09-09)
- https://www.ootoritaisha.jp/taisha/ (checked 2026-09-10)
- https://www.ootoritaisha.jp/access/ (checked 2026-10-15)
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