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KUSHIDA SHRINE

Kushida Shrine of Hakata (Fukuoka) is widely known as Okushida-san. Kushida Shrine of Hakata dates back to 757.

Kushida Shrine of Hakata (Fukuoka) is a grand tutelary shrine. Kushida Shrine of Hakata is widely known and people warmly refer to it as “Okushida-san.” In 757, when Emperor Koken was in the reign and Tairano Kiyomori designated Hakata Port as a base of Japan-China trade, the shrine was built on the emperor’s order to share a god with Kushida Shrine of Ise province (the present Mie prefecture).

Kushida Shrine Hakata
Kushida Shrine Hakata

Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival is dedicated to this Kushida Shrine. In the shrine yard grows a great symbolic gingko tree with two monumental tablets of the Mongolian invasion on its foot.

Kushida Shrine of Hakata Location

1-41, Kamikawabata-machi, Hakata-ku, Fukuoka
5 min walk from Nakasukawabata subway station

Kushida Shrine Hakata torii
Kushida Shrine Hakata torii

 

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