Awa Province (Chiba) Claimant (ronsha)
Susaki Jinja
洲崎神社
Susaki Jinja is one of the shrines claimed as the ichinomiya — the leading shrine — of the former Awa Province (Chiba), in present-day Chiba. It has a car park (free). Its principal annual festival (reisai) falls on August 20–22 every year. We found 1 entry for the shrine in Japan’s national database of designated cultural properties. The nearest other ichinomiya is Awa Jinja, 9.1 km to the south-east in a straight line.
Getting there
千葉県館山市洲崎1697
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
- From OpenStreetMap, as 洲崎神社. Not checked on the ground
- Address
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By train and bus
The primary sources we checked describe the way here only by car, not by public transport.
Parking
It has a car park (free).
台数は確認できず
The note above is in Japanese; it usually records dates when the car park is closed, and the fee.
Visiting the 4 ichinomiya in Chiba in one day? Work out an order that reaches each office before it closes →
History in brief
- History
- The shrine's chronicles record that Minamoto no Yoritomo, fleeing to Awa after defeat at Ishibashiyama, prayed here and went on to restore the Minamoto clan.
Summarised from the local authority (【市指定有形文化財】洲崎大明神縁起 | 館山市役所, checked 2026-10-08). Traditions are given as the shrine tells them, not as established history.
Enshrined deities
- Amenohirinohime-no-Mikoto 天比理乃咩命
Tateyama City says the shrine's goddess is Amenohirinohime-no-Mikoto, consort of Futodama, ancestral god of the Awa Inbe clan. Another account traces the shrine to the worship of Hiruko.
Our English summary of the Japanese description. Spelling as given by the prefectural shrine office or local authority.
Nationally designated cultural properties
- 洲崎踊
- Intangible Folk Cultural Property selected for recording (folk performing arts)
Source: the national register. All of them together →
Festivals
- Principal annual festival
-
8月20～22日 神社例祭
source
Other festivals and rituals
- 洲崎のミノコオドリ
- 2月の初午
- 洲崎神社例祭
- 例年8月21日
Nearest ichinomiya
The closest is Awa Jinja, about 9.1 km to the south-east in a straight line, in the same province. After that come Tsurugaoka Hachimangu (44 km north-west) and Samukawa Jinja (57 km north-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 Tateyama City’s cultural property page nor Chiba Prefecture’s official tourism site describes it as the ichinomiya. The “Susaki Daimyōjin Engi” (洲崎大明神縁起), a cultural property designated by Tateyama City, records that the shrine enshrines the consort deity of Ame no Futodama no Mikoto, the deity of Awa Jinja, and that Minamoto no Yoritomo prayed there. No primary source for its being the ichinomiya of Awa Province could be found.
- https://www.city.tateyama.chiba.jp/syougaigaku/page100263.html (checked 2026-09-09)
- https://maruchiba.jp/spot/detail_12056.html (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 Awa Province (Chiba) page.
Historical rank
- Province
- Awa Province (Chiba) (Tōkaidō)
- Prefecture
- Chiba
- Engishiki (927)
- Shōsha
- Former state rank (1871–1946)
- Kensha
Sources
- https://www.city.tateyama.chiba.jp/syougaigaku/page100263.html (checked 2026-09-09)
- https://maruchiba.jp/spot/detail_12056.html (checked 2026-09-09)
How we handle spellings, festival selection, former ranks and map accuracy is set out once on the About page.