Kokai Shrine
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Highlights & What to Do
The guardian deity of the Yoshina district. While the exact date of its founding is unknown, legend says that a fisherman named Rokurozaemon once found a glowing stone in the sea. After throwing it back and casting his net elsewhere, he caught the same stone again. He enshrined the stone, which became the origin of the shrine and its name. It was deeply revered by Kobayakawa Takakage, who is said to have offered Horaku Hyakuin renga (linked-verse poetry) to pray for continued military success during the Bunroku Campaign (1592). Three volumes of these renga, dating from 1539, 1557, and 1560, are still preserved at the shrine today.
Access
About 30 minutes by car from the Kouchi IC on the Sanyo Expressway
About 5 minutes on foot from JR Yoshina Station
More Nearby
Okonomiyaki Café Mitsubachi
356m
Zazen Meditation at Jufuku-ji Temple
512m
Gallery Yoshina
1km
Nōka Restaurant Nishino
1.2km
Teramukai Park
1.3km
Okashi no Sono Hakoniwa Honpo Ichikawa
1.5km
Setouchi Golf Resort THE GRILL
1.7km
Takehara Marine
1.9km
Setouchi Cruiser (Private Cruising)
1.9km
Okonomiyaki Teppanyaki Teyanchū
2.2km
hamburger&pizza O2&en
2.4km
Salt-making Experience
2.5km
Setouchi Golf Resort
1.7km
Details
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Phone Number：0846-25-1524
- Notes
Kokai Hachimangu Shrine is a branch of the Iwashimizu Hachimangu Shrine in Kyoto. Along with Itsukushima Daimyojin, it has been a guardian deity of Yoshina-cho since the Edo period. The shrine still holds ridgepole plaques (munafuda) dating back to the Kamakura period, the oldest of which is from 1316.
Kokai Shrine