Yahashira Shrine and Mihashira Shrine

125/Susanoo-no-Mikoto

■Date of the Festival
October-9
■Time for the Kirin Dance at the Shrine
9 a.m. and 6 p.m.
■Origin
Mid-Edo period
■Characteristics Designated as an Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property of Hyōgo Prefecture in 1972.
■Area
Susanoo-no-Mikoto 


Yahashira Shrine

The year of the shrine's founding is unknown. The shrine deity was divided and transferred from Yasaka Shrine in Yamashiro Province around the Genryaku era (1184–1185). The shrine was known as "Sanpōkōjin" during the Edo period. It was renamed to "Mihashira Shrine" in Meiji 1 (1868), and made one of the village’s shrines in October of Meiji 6 (1873).

■Deity of the Shrine
Susanoo-no-Mikoto

■cultural property
[Kirin Dance]
Designated as a Hyōgo Prefecture Important Intangible Cultural Property in 1978.
Designated as a National Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property in 2020.

Basic Information

Address (Japanese)
669-6715 兵庫県美方郡新温泉町207-1
Address
207-1, Mikata County, Shin-onsen Town Hyogo, 669-6715
市内のアクセス情報
A ten-minute walk from ""Mio"" bus stop on the Mio Community Bus Line.