Jinja Navi 神社ナビ

Ecchu Province Ichinomiya

Oyama Jinja Chugu Kiganden

雄山神社・中宮祈願殿

Oyama Jinja Chugu Kiganden is the ichinomiya — the leading shrine — of the former Ecchu Province, in present-day Toyama. We could not confirm whether it has a car park. Without a car, a local tourism body gives 1 route from a station (by bus); the station names are listed below. Its principal annual festival (reisai) falls on July 25–26 every year. We found 1 entry for the shrine in Japan’s national database of designated cultural properties. The nearest other ichinomiya is Imizu Jinja, 38 km to the north-west in a straight line.

Getting there

富山県中新川郡立山町芦峅寺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.

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For a car navigation system

Phone
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Coordinates
From OpenStreetMap, as 雄山神社中宮祈願殿. Not checked on the ground
Address

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By train and bus

From 千垣駅富山地方鉄道
By bus.

The source, word for word (bus stop names included):

富山地方鉄道「富山駅」から45分乗車、「千垣（ちがき）駅」下車、町営バスにて5分

Taken from a local tourism body (とやま観光ナビ 雄山神社中宮祈願殿（公益社団法人とやま観光推進機構）, 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

We could not confirm whether it has a car park.

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History in brief

Name
The Kiganden, the largest building, was originally called the Kodo (lecture hall).

Summarised from the local authority (立山黒部アルペンルート／立山町, checked 2026-10-08). Traditions are given as the shrine tells them, not as established history.

Enshrined deities

Toyama Prefecture's tourism site says the three halls of Oyama Jinja — the summit, Chūgū and Maetate — all enshrine the same deities, Izanagi-no-Kami and Ame-no-Tajikarao.

Our English summary of the Japanese description. Spelling as given by the prefectural shrine office or local authority.

Nationally designated cultural properties

木造慈興上人坐像
Important Cultural Property

Source: the national register. All of them together →

Festivals

Principal annual festival
七月二十五日、二十六日　例大祭
source

Other festivals and rituals

御衣祭(お召替)
三月十三日
芦峅雄山神社神輿練り
7月25日、26日

Ichinomiya festivals in July →

Nearest ichinomiya

The closest is Imizu Jinja, about 38 km to the north-west in a straight line, in the same province. After that come Keta Jinja (39 km north-west) and Takase Jinja (40 km west).

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

No primary source found

We could not find any primary source calling this shrine an ichinomiya — not the shrine’s own site, and not any public body. We say so rather than assume.

Listed on the map published by the Ichinomiya Pilgrimage Association.

Neither the Toyama Prefecture cultural heritage database nor the description by the Toyama Tourism Organization uses the word ichinomiya. No primary source for treating it as the ichinomiya of Ecchu Province could be found.

More on how the shrines of this province relate to one another is on the Ecchu Province page.

Historical rank

Province
Ecchu Province (Hokurikudō)
Prefecture
Toyama
Engishiki (927)
Myōjin Taisha
Former state rank (1871–1946)
Kokuhei Shōsha

Sources

Official website (Japanese)

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