Awa Province (Tokushima) Reference entry
Yakurahime Jinja
八倉比売神社
Yakurahime Jinja is listed here for reference under the former Awa Province (Tokushima), in present-day Tokushima. It is not on the Ichinomiya Junpaikai’s list. 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. The nearest other ichinomiya is Ichinomiya Jinja, 2.0 km to the south in a straight line.
This is a reference entry
This shrine is not on the map published by the Ichinomiya Pilgrimage Association (Zenkoku Ichinomiya Junpaikai). We include it for context. It is not presented as a current ichinomiya.
No primary source found.
Getting there
徳島県徳島市国府町西矢野字宮谷531
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 天石門別八倉比売神社. Not checked on the ground
- Address
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By train and bus
- From 徳島駅
- By bus, 30 min.
The source, word for word (bus stop names included):
JR徳島駅→徳島市営バス刑務所行き「八倉比売口」下車→徒歩30分
Taken from a local tourism body (八倉比売神社｜阿波ナビ, 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.
出典にした資料には駐車場の記載が見当たりませんでした（2026-10-15に読み直し）。地図データ（OpenStreetMap）には近くに駐車場が描かれていますが、参拝者が使えるかは確認できていません。
The note above is in Japanese; it usually records dates when the car park is closed, and the fee.
Visiting the 4 ichinomiya in Tokushima in one day? Work out an order that reaches each office before it closes →
Enshrined deities
- Amaterasu-Okami 大日霊女 10 ichinomiya enshrine this deity →
Spelling as given by the prefectural shrine office or local authority.
Nearest ichinomiya
The closest is Ichinomiya Jinja, about 2.0 km to the south in a straight line, in the same province. After that come Kami Ichinomiya Oawa Jinja (13 km south-west) and Oasahiko Jinja (13 km north).
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.
Not found on the map published by the Ichinomiya Pilgrimage Association.
Awa Navi (阿波ナビ), Tokushima Prefecture’s tourism information site, calls it only a “major shrine entered in the Engishiki” with “the court rank of Senior First Rank from the Genryaku era”, and does not mention the ichinomiya. No primary source for calling it the ichinomiya of Awa Province could be found.
- https://www.awanavi.jp/archives/spot/2755 (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 (Tokushima) page.
Historical rank
- Province
- Awa Province (Tokushima) (Nankaidō)
- Prefecture
- Tokushima
- Engishiki (927)
- Shōsha
- Former state rank (1871–1946)
- Kensha
Sources
- https://www.awanavi.jp/archives/spot/2755 (checked 2026-09-09)
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