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Ichinomiya
Shinto shrine with the highest rank in a province

Ichinomiya

Ichinomiya is a Japanese historical term referring to the Shinto shrines with the highest rank in a province.

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Shrines of lower rank were designated ninomiya , sannomiya , shinomiya , and so forth.

Get in

Getting to Ichinomiya

Ichinomiya is roughly halfway between Nagoya and Gifu. By rail, take the JR Tokaido line from Nagoya to Owari-Ichinomiya (9 min, ¥290), or the Meitetsu Nagoya or Bisai lines. By road, Ichinomiya is accessible from the Toumei, Meishin, and Tokai-Hokoriku expressways.

See

Worth seeing

  1. 01
    Masumida Shrine

    Ichinomiya means 'first shrine' (in the sense of most important) and Masumida was the principal shrine of Owari Province (now Aichi).

Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    Ichinomiya Tanabata Festival

    Held from Thursday to Sunday of the last weekend in July, this is reputed to be one of the three biggest Tanabata festivals in Japan, and attracts up to 1.3 million visitors annually.

Eat

Where to eat

  1. 01
    The Rumor Burger

    It's a small restaurant, built into the walls of Masumida Shrine.

  2. 02
    Otaya Bisai

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Bariston (CC BY-SA 4.0), Wikimedia Commons.