Oyama Jinja Satomiya Maetate Shadan
雄山神社・里宮前立社壇
Oyama Jinja Satomiya Maetate Shadan is one of the shrine sites that together form the ichinomiya — the leading shrine — of the former Ecchu Province, in present-day Toyama. We could not confirm whether it has a car park. Opening hours end at 16:30 (ground-floor counter). Without a car, the shrine's own website gives 1 route from a station (on foot), one of them a walk of 10 min; the station names are listed below. Its principal annual festival (reisai) falls on April 8 every year. We found 2 entries for the shrine in Japan’s national database of designated cultural properties. The nearest other ichinomiya is Imizu Jinja, 31 km to the north-west in a straight line.
Getting there
富山県中新川郡立山町岩峅寺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.
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 岩峅寺駅富山地方鉄道
- On foot, 10 min.
The source, word for word (bus stop names included):
富山地方鉄道 岩峅寺駅より徒歩１０分
Taken from the shrine's own website (雄山神社前立社壇 公式サイト（アクセス）, 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.
Shrine office hours
Opening hours end at 16:30 (ground-floor counter).
The full note from the source, in Japanese:
8:30-16:30（一階窓口で御守・御朱印の授与、御祈祷受付）
Closing times of every ichinomiya, earliest first →
Visiting the 5 ichinomiya in Toyama in one day? Work out an order that reaches each office before it closes →
History in brief
- Founding
- Because the summit shrine was hard to reach in winter, a shrine was built at Iwakura at the foot of the mountain for year-round rites.
- Buildings
- Minamoto no Yoritomo rebuilt the main hall in the Kenkyu era (1190–1198).
- Buildings
- In 1583, Sassa Narimasa built and repaired the main hall.
- History
- It later received generous protection from the Maeda family and became a prayer site of the Kaga domain.
Summarised from the shrine's own website (越中立山 雄山神社 前立社壇（御由緒）, checked 2026-10-08). Traditions are given as the shrine tells them, not as established history.
Enshrined deities
- Izanagi-no-Kami 伊邪那岐神 7 ichinomiya enshrine this deity →
- Amenotajikarao-no-Mikoto 天手力雄神 4 ichinomiya enshrine this deity →
The Maetate shrine's website gives its two deities as Izanagi-no-Kami and Ame-no-Tajikarao-no-Kami.
Our English summary of the Japanese description. Spelling as given by the shrine's own website.
Goshuin (shrine seal)
- Available
- Yes
- Hours
- 8:30-16:30
Nationally designated cultural properties
- 雄山神社前立社壇本殿
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Important Cultural Property
五間社流造、向拝一間、檜皮葺
designated 1906-04-14 · late Muromachi period - 木造慈興上人坐像
- Important Cultural Property
Source: the national register. All of them together →
Festivals
- Principal annual festival
-
4月8日 春季例大祭
source
Other festivals and rituals
- 鎮火祭
- 3月24日
- 神輿渡御
- 4月吉日
- 五穀豊穣祈願祭
- 6月吉日
- 秋季大祭
- 11月3日
- 崇敬会大祭
- 11月第3日曜日
Nearest ichinomiya
The closest is Imizu Jinja, about 31 km to the north-west in a straight line, in the same province. After that come Keta Jinja (32 km north-west) and Takase Jinja (33 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.
The Toyama Prefecture cultural heritage database says only that the main hall of the Maetate Shadan “was founded as a satomiya, for the convenience of worshippers”, and makes no mention of the ichinomiya.
- https://toyama-bunkaisan.jp/search/1531/ (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 Ecchu Province page.
Historical rank
- Province
- Ecchu Province (Hokurikudō)
- Prefecture
- Toyama
Sources
- https://toyama-bunkaisan.jp/search/1531/ (checked 2026-09-09)
- https://www.oyamajinjya-maetateshadan.org/access/ (checked 2026-09-09)
- https://www.oyamajinjya-maetateshadan.org/ (checked 2026-09-10)
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