Sagami Province Ichinomiya
Tsurugaoka Hachimangu
鶴岡八幡宮
Tsurugaoka Hachimangu is the ichinomiya — the leading shrine — of the former Sagami Province, in present-day Kanagawa. It has a car park (paid). Opening hours end at 16:30 (prayer-rite desk). Without a car, a local tourism body gives 2 routes 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 September 14–16 every year. We found 18 entries for the shrine in Japan’s national database of designated cultural properties, 4 of them National Treasures. The nearest other ichinomiya is Samukawa Jinja, 17 km to the west in a straight line.
Getting there
神奈川県鎌倉市雪ノ下2-1-31
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 JR鎌倉駅JR横須賀線・JR湘南新宿ライン
- On foot, 10 min.
- From 江ノ電鎌倉駅江ノ島電鉄
- On foot, 10 min.
The source, word for word (bus stop names included):
JR横須賀線 JR湘南新宿ライン 「JR鎌倉駅」東口から徒歩10分 江ノ島電鉄 「江ノ電鎌倉駅」から徒歩10分
Taken from a local tourism body (鶴岡八幡宮【鎌倉市】｜観光かながわNOW, 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 (paid).
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).
第2・第3駐車場あり。大型バス可。台数・料金は確認できず。駐車場に関する問い合わせは 0467-22-0325（9:00-16:00）
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 8:30-16:30（大石段下の祈祷受付所）／開門・閉門 通年 6:00-20:00。授与所そのものの時間は公式に記載なし
Closing times of every ichinomiya, earliest first →
Visiting the 2 ichinomiya in Kanagawa in one day? Work out an order that reaches each office before it closes →
History in brief
- Founding
- The shrine began when Minamoto no Yoriyoshi, an ancestor of Yoritomo, invited the deity of Iwashimizu Hachimangu and enshrined it near Yuigahama beach in Kamakura.
- Moved
- In 1180, Minamoto no Yoritomo, having made Kamakura his base, moved the shrine to its present site the same year.
- History
- In the Edo period, Tokugawa Ieyasu worked to restore and protect the temples and shrines of Kamakura, centred on Tsurugaoka Hachimangu.
Summarised from the shrine's own website (鶴岡八幡宮 鎌倉と鶴岡八幡宮（knowledge）, checked 2026-10-08). Traditions are given as the shrine tells them, not as established history.
Enshrined deities
- Ojin-Tenno 応神天皇 10 ichinomiya enshrine this deity →
- Jingu-Kogo 神功皇后 10 ichinomiya enshrine this deity →
- Hime-Okami 比売神 3 ichinomiya enshrine this deity →
The shrine's website describes Emperor Ōjin as the fifteenth emperor, son of Emperor Chūai and Empress Jingū, credited with encouraging shipbuilding and bringing in continental culture; and Empress Jingū as Chūai's empress, who governed until Ōjin took the throne.
Our English summary of the Japanese description. Spelling as given by the shrine's own website.
Nationally designated cultural properties
- 鶴岡八幡宮上宮
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Important Cultural Property
本殿 九間社流造、銅瓦葺 幣殿 桁行四間、梁間一間、一重、両下造、銅瓦葺 拝殿 桁行三間、梁間二間、一重、入母屋造、銅瓦葺
designated 1996-07-09 · late Edo period - 鶴岡八幡宮大鳥居（一の鳥居）
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Important Cultural Property
石造明神鳥居 柱に寛文八年戊申八月十五日の刻銘がある
designated 1904-08-29 · mid-Edo period - 鶴岡八幡宮摂社若宮
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Important Cultural Property
本殿 五間社流造、銅板葺 幣殿 桁行四間、梁間一間、一重、両下造、銅板葺 拝殿 桁行三間、梁間二間、一重、入母屋造、向拝一間、銅板葺
designated 1996-07-09 · early Edo period - 鶴岡八幡宮末社丸山稲荷社本殿
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Important Cultural Property
一間社流造、銅板葺
designated 1967-06-15 · mid-Muromachi period - 古神宝類
- National Treasure
- 古神宝類
- National Treasure
- 太刀〈銘正恒／〉
- National Treasure
- 籬菊螺鈿蒔絵硯箱
- National Treasure
- 太刀〈各銘相州住綱広作、綱家作、康国作／〉 桐鳳凰蒔絵糸巻太刀拵
- Important Cultural Property
- 太刀〈金銘国吉／〉
- Important Cultural Property
- 太刀〈銘長光／〉
- Important Cultural Property
- 木造弁才天坐像
- Important Cultural Property
- 木造舞楽面〈陵王、散手、貴徳鯉口／貴徳番子、二ノ舞〉
- Important Cultural Property
- 木造菩薩面
- Important Cultural Property
- 紙本墨書鶴岡社務記録
- Important Cultural Property
- 鶴岡八幡宮指図〈／天正十九年五月十四日〉
- Important Cultural Property
- 鶴岡八幡宮文書（二百二十四通）
- Important Cultural Property
- 鶴岡八幡宮境内
- Historic Site
Source: the national register. All of them together →
Festivals
- Principal annual festival
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9月14日～16日 例大祭
source
Other festivals and rituals
- 流鏑馬神事
- 9月16日
- ぼんぼり祭
- 立秋の前日から9日までの3日間(年により4日間)
- 除魔神事
- 1月5日
- 手斧始式
- 1月4日
- 鶴岡厄除大祭
- 1月下旬の土日を含む期間
Nearest ichinomiya
The closest is Samukawa Jinja, about 17 km to the west in a straight line, in the same province. After that come Ono Jinja (38 km north) and Susaki Jinja (44 km south-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
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 shrine’s own website nor the Kanagawa Prefecture Tourist Association’s description of it contains the words “ichinomiya of Sagami Province”. What the shrine states goes no further than its history as the tutelary shrine of the Minamoto clan. No primary source for the ichinomiya title could be found.
- https://www.hachimangu.or.jp/knowledge/ (checked 2026-09-09)
- https://www.kanagawa-kankou.or.jp/spot/157 (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 Sagami Province page.
Historical rank
- Province
- Sagami Province (Tōkaidō)
- Prefecture
- Kanagawa
- Engishiki (927)
- Not listed in the Engishiki
- Former state rank (1871–1946)
- Kokuhei Chūsha
Sources
- https://www.hachimangu.or.jp/knowledge/ (checked 2026-09-09)
- https://www.kanagawa-kankou.or.jp/spot/157 (checked 2026-09-09)
- https://www.trip-kamakura.com/facility/detail.php?id=54 (checked 2026-09-09)
- https://www.hachimangu.or.jp/pray/kito.html (checked 2026-10-01)
- https://www.hachimangu.or.jp/access/ (checked 2026-10-01)
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