Sanuki Province Ichinomiya
Tamura Jinja
田村神社
Tamura Jinja is the ichinomiya — the leading shrine — of the former Sanuki Province, in present-day Kagawa. It has a car park; the sources we checked give neither its size nor a fee. Opening hours end at 17:00 (prayer-rite desk). Without a car, the shrine's own website gives 2 routes from a station (on foot); the station names are listed below. We found 1 entry for the shrine in Japan’s national database of designated cultural properties. The nearest other ichinomiya is Ani Jinja, 36 km to the north in a straight line.
Getting there
香川県高松市一宮町 286
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 一宮駅高松琴平電気鉄道（ことでん）琴平線
- On foot.
- From 一宮バス停
- On foot.
The source, word for word (bus stop names included):
高松琴平電気鉄道（ことでん）琴平線一宮駅より徒歩で約10分／ことでんバス一宮バス停より徒歩で約1分
Taken from the shrine's own website (アクセス ｜ 讃岐國一宮 田村神社, 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.
This routes you to the car park, not to the hall. From this car park to the hall is about 80 m in a straight line (the walk is longer). The location is taken from OpenStreetMap and has not been checked on the ground.
公式サイトに駐車場の案内はない。交通安全祈願の場合は「172号線 河田葬儀社・一宮セレモニー会館北側」の進入口から田村神社会館付近に駐車するよう公式が案内
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 17:00 (prayer-rite desk).
The full note from the source, in Japanese:
祈祷受付 9:00-17:00（年中無休。受付場所は授与所）
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 records, its buildings were first built in 709.
- History
- When floods or droughts struck, the domain's officials are said to have prayed here first.
Summarised from the shrine's own website (田村神社について, checked 2026-10-08). Traditions are given as the shrine tells them, not as established history.
Enshrined deities
- Yamatototohimomosohime-no-Mikoto 倭迹迹日百襲姫命
- Isasarihiko-no-Mikoto 五十狭芹彦命
- Sarutahiko-no-Okami 猿田彦大神 4 ichinomiya enshrine this deity →
- Amakakushiyama-no-Mikoto 天隠山命
- Amanoitane-no-Mikoto 天五田根命
The five deities are called together Tamura Ōkami.
Our English summary of the Japanese description. Spelling as given by the shrine's own website.
Goshuin (shrine seal)
- Available
- Yes
Nationally designated cultural properties
- 田村神社古神宝類
- Important Cultural Property
Source: the national register. All of them together →
Festivals
- Principal annual festival
-
5月7、8日 春季例大祭
source
The shrine itself does not call this its 例祭. We placed its heaviest festival here; that is our judgement, not the shrine's wording.
Other festivals and rituals
- 秋季例大祭
- 10月7、8日
- 御火焚き祭
- 1月15日
- 夏越祭
- 7月1、2日
- 燈籠祭
- 8月9、10日
- 人形供養祭
- 12月23日
Nearest ichinomiya
The closest is Ani Jinja, about 36 km to the north in a straight line, in Bizen Province (listed here for reference). After that come Kibitsu Jinja (46 km north) and Oasahiko Jinja (46 km 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 Sanuki Province page.
Historical rank
- Province
- Sanuki Province (Nankaidō)
- Prefecture
- Kagawa
- Engishiki (927)
- Myōjin Taisha
- Former state rank (1871–1946)
- Kokuhei Chūsha
Sources
- https://tamurajinja.com/map/ (checked 2026-09-09)
- https://tamurajinja.com/about/ (checked 2026-09-10)
- https://tamurajinja.com/pray/ (checked 2026-10-29)
How we handle spellings, festival selection, former ranks and map accuracy is set out once on the About page.