Hokkaido Shrine
北海道神宮
Kinomiya Shrine
Kinomiya Shrine in Atami City, Shizuoka Prefecture, enshrines three deities — Onamuchi-no-Mikoto, Itakeru-no-Mikoto (the tree deity and son of Susanoo), and Yamato Takeru — and serves as the head shrine of 44 Kinomiya shrines nationwide. According to tradition, in 710 CE a fisherman's net repeatedly caught a sacred driftwood object in Atami Bay; the deity revealed himself in a dream as Itakeru-no-Mikoto and asked to be enshrined away from the noise of the sea. The shrine is celebrated for its 2,000-year-old sacred camphor tree (okususu), a nationally designated Natural Monument with a circumference of approximately 24 meters, which tradition holds will extend one's life by one year for each circuit made around it.
Traditional founding: sacred driftwood found by fisherman; Itakeru-no-Mikoto enshrined at forest site per divine dream instruction.
Location Coordinates
35.0940, 139.0659
43-1 Nishiyama-cho, Atami-shi, Shizuoka
Izu Province
Kinomiya Station (JR Ito Line)
Dawn to dusk
北海道神宮
上川神社
帯廣神社
樽前山神社
美瑛神社
旭川神社
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Kinomiya Shrine in Atami City, Shizuoka Prefecture, enshrines three deities — Onamuchi-no-Mikoto, Itakeru-no-Mikoto (the tree deity and son of Susanoo), and Yamato Takeru — and serves as the head shrine of 44 Kinomiya shrines nationwide. According to tradition, in 710 CE a fisherman's net repeatedly caught a sacred driftwood object in Atami Bay; the deity revealed himself in a dream as Itakeru-no-Mikoto and asked to be enshrined away from the noise of the sea. The shrine is celebrated for its 2,000-year-old sacred camphor tree (okususu), a nationally designated Natural Monument with a circumference of approximately 24 meters, which tradition holds will extend one's life by one year for each circuit made around it.
Kinomiya Shrine is located in Atami-shi, Shizuoka. The full address is: 43-1 Nishiyama-cho, Atami-shi, Shizuoka.