Mt. Futatabi N Shin- Guide map Route No. 2 Shinkobe Gion Shrine Oriental● Route No. 18 ● Kitano Tenman- Avenue jinja Shrine● Shofuku-ji Temple● 五 Suwa-jinja Shrine Kitano Ijinkan Route No. 92 ●

Route No. 7 一 Kobe Kua House Rokunomiya Shrine Shichinomiya Shrine Hachinomiya Shrine ● ●Sorakuen Garden Yamate Line (6th Shrine) (7th Shrine) (8th Shrine) Route 428

四 ●Ikuta Police Station 二 Kobe University Yamate-kansen road Railway Kobe Shinsen Hospital ●Ikuta-jinja Shrine JR Ichiba Market ● Prefectural government office● Kenchōmae ●Chuo Ward office Hyogo Ward office Kobe ● Bunka Hall 六 八 City Subway ● Hanshin Seishin-Yamate Line Okurayama ● Minatogawa Motomachi Sogo Electric Railway koen-nishiguchi 三 bus stop Nankinmachi Hanakuma ● Kyūkyoryūchi- Sannomiya-Hanadokeimae Isogami Park Minatogawa-jinja Shrine Nishi- ● Daimarumae Minatogawa koen Motomachi City hall ● ● ● MinatomotomachiCity Subway ● Kaigan Line bus stop

● Bank of Tokyo- Kosoku-Kobe Kobe Mitsubishi UFJ Route 2 Flower Road Dedicated deities: Amatsuhikone-no-mikoto/Emperor Ojin Dedicated deity: Onamuchi-no-mikoto Dedicated deities: Kumanokusubi-no-mikoto/Susanoo-no-mikoto Shinkaichi Kobe This shrine was once located in front of Kusunoki-dera Temple. When the It is believed that Onamuchi-no-mikoto opened up the Hyogo area and was This shrine was initially located near a former police station on Kusunoki Route No. 3 Kusunoki Higher Elementary School was built in December 1909, the deity worshiped by Taira no Kiyomori, a Japanese military leader of the late Heian Street. It was moved to its present location (southeast of Mt. Okura) when Meriken Park was relocated to the inner shrine of Hachinomiya Shrine (8th Shrine) and period, at the time of the repair of Owadanotomari Port. Onamu- the former Kobe City hall was built there in 1909. It is worshiped as a

enshrined together with its deity. From ancient times, many people in their chi-no-mikoto is a god of safe voyage, land development, marriage, and guardian for exorcism. Hashirimizu-jinja Shrine unlucky age visit this shrine constantly. exorcism. Onohachiman-jinja Shrine

Route No. 96 Kobe City Central Library ▲ Kobe City Central Library To Shinkaichi ● Nishidemachi ● East Exit No. 2 East Exit No. 2 GS● ▲ GS●

Port Liner ● Harborland ● Kusunokicho Coin-operated parking lot ● Kusunokicho 七 Park● ● Park● Junten Fujinotera Temple Shichinomiya Junten To Harborland Clinic Clinic Shichinomiyajingu-mae · Only the bus routes used for visiting the Eight Shrines are shown. Okurayama (Yamate Line) (Yamate Okurayama Shichinomiya Shrine (7th Shrine) Line) (Yamate Okurayama

▼ ▼ For information on other routes, see the City Bus and Subway guidebook, which is distributed for free at subway stations, etc. Kobe Bunka Hall Okurayama ● ▼ Kobe Bunka Hall Okurayama Coin-operated Ichinomiya 1-3-5 Yamamotodori, Chuo-ku Ninomiya 3-1-12 Ninomiya-cho, Chuo-ku Sannomiya 2-4-4 Sannomiya-cho, Chuo-ku ● parking lot "Times" ● 一 二 三 ▼ Shrine (1st Shrine) Tel: 078-221-1281 Shrine (2nd Shrine) Tel: 078-221-4786 Shrine (3rd Shrine) Tel: 078-331-2873 Shichinomiyacho ● To Kobe Station (Routes No. 3 and 96) ● To Kobe Station Yonomiya 5-2-13 Nakayamatedori, Chuo-ku Gonomiya 22-10 Gonomiya-cho, Hyogo-ku Rokunomiya Deity enshrined together Kobe City Kobe City 四 五 六

Rokunomiya Shrine (6th Shrine) Shrine Rokunomiya (6th Shrine) Shrine Rokunomiya Shrine (4th Shrine) Tel: 078-382-0438 Shrine (5th Shrine) Tel: 078-361-1374 Shrine (6th Shrine) with Hachinomiya Shrine's deity Central (8th Shrine) Shrine Hachinomiya Hanshin Expressway Central (8th Shrine) Shrine Hachinomiya FamilyMart Gymnasium Route 3 Kobe Line ● Gymnasium City Subway City Subway Shichinomiya 2-3-21 Shichinomiya-cho, Hyogo-ku Hachinomiya 3-4-13 Kusunoki-cho, Chuo-ku Seishin-Yamate Line Kobe District ●McDonald's Seishin-Yamate Line Kobe District 七 八

Court To Central Court Shrine (7th Shrine) Tel: 078-671-3338 Shrine (8th Shrine) Tel: 078-341-6920 ● Market ● ▼ ▼ ▼ 【Instructions】 Have shrine seals a xed by 5:00 p.m. (subject to fee). Approx. 3 min. walk from "Okurayama" bus stop Near Shichinomiyacho bus stop Approx. 3 min. walk from "Okurayama" bus stop Scan the 2D code below the map of each shrine to gain access to the Makoto Tanabe's video explanation. Access (Yamate Line) Access Access (Yamate Line) (Routes No. 3 and 96) Near East Exit No. 2 at Subway "Okurayama" Station Near East Exit No. 2 at Subway "Okurayama" Station (Any communication charges must be paid by the customer.) Issued by City Bus Transportation Service Department, Vehicle Division, Kobe City Transportation Bureau Tel: 078-322-5944 Printed June 2016 Gonomiya Shrine Yonomiya Shrine Sannomiya Shrine Ninomiya Shrine Ichinomiya Shrine (5th Shrine) (4th Shrine) (3rd Shrine) (2nd Shrine) (1st Shrine)

Pilgrimage to the Eight Shrines in Kobe By Makoto Tanabe

Dedicated deity: Amenohohi-no-mikoto Dedicated deity: Ichikishimahime-no-mikoto Dedicated deity: Takitsuhime-no-mikoto Dedicated deities: Amenooshihomimi-no-mikoto/Emperor Ojin Dedicated deity: Tagorihime-no-mikoto There are eight shrines—from rst to eighth—to the east of the Amenohohi-no-mikoto is believed to be a god who was invited from Ichikishimahime-no-mikoto is believed to be a god who was invited from Miyajima in Hiroshima Prefecture Takitsuhime-no-mikoto is believed to be a god who was invited from Munakata-taisha It is believed that Amenooshihomimi-no-mikoto is a god who made eorts Tagorihime-no-mikoto is believed to be a god who was invited from former urban area of Kobe, an area broadly under the protection of Amenohohi-jinja Shrine, which was located in Izumo Province (present-day and has been worshiped as a guard of Hanakuma’s unlucky direction ever since Araki Murashige, a feudal Shrine, located in Fukuoka Prefecture. In the Edo period, this god was devoutly worshiped to ensure a good harvest in Japan by order of Amaterasu-omikami. Munakata-taisha Shrine, located in Fukuoka Prefecture, and an empress of Shimane Prefecture), and endeavored to develop and administer the nation lord in the age of provincial wars, built Hanakuma Castle on the order of Oda Nobunaga, a powerful feudal by the domain lord of Amagasaki. When the port of Hyogo (present-day ) was Okuninushi-no-mikoto. She is worshiped as a guardian of creation & Ikuta-jinja Shrine. The shrines are called subordinate shrines of as a servant of Amaterasu-omikami. lord in the age of provincial wars. This god, also known as a god of the performing arts, is worshiped by opened, the Kobe Incident occurred in front of this shrine. Legend has it that once a year, prosperity, sailing & tra c safety, and exorcism. many performers, and was once called a guard of local Hanakuma geisha. this god meets his old brother, a god who is enshrined in Ninomiya Shrine (2nd Shrine). Ikuta-jinja Shrine. Three female deities and ve male deities, who

▼ ▲ Shofuku-ji Temple● ▲ were born when Amaterasu-omikami and Susanoo-no-mikoto Kenchōmae ● Kobe Institute ● exchanged a jewel and a sword with each other, are each

Hyogo Prefectural Hyogo Prefectural Sannnomiya ●Center Plaza West Building Ijinkandori Street Government Building No. 2 ▼ of Computing Gion Shrine Hoonji Temple Disaster Control Center Kobe Kua House● Ninomiyajinja-mae Flower Road Flower enshrined in one of the eight shrines. Originally, Ichinomiya (1st), ● Shin-Kobe ● Kobe Branch ● ● Hyogo Prefectural Government Building No. 1 Shin-Kobe To GS Sannomiyacho 2-chome (Route No. 7) ● Yamamotodori FamilyMart● Ninomiya (2nd), Sannomiya (3rd), Yonomiya (4th), Gonomiya (5th), ▼ Tor Road Higashi Park JR ● Hotel Piena Kobe ● Kobe Institute of Computing, Yonomiya Shrine Shrine Yonomiya (4th Shrine) ●DONQ FamilyMart Subway Kencho-Mae ● Bloom Kobe Graduate School of Rokunomiya (6th), Shichinomiya (7th) and Hachinomiya (8th)

Sannomiya

(Yamate Line)▲ Information Technology ▲ ● ● shrines were worshiped in Kitano, Ikuta (or the whole of Fukiyaso), ▼ Hyogo Prefecture Kobe General Government Building Gonomiya Shrine (5th Shrine) Shrine Gonomiya Yamate-kansenWest road Exit No. 3 ● 】 Ｐ Ichinomiya Shrine Ichinomiya (1st Shrine) Minato Bank

Route 428 Tofukuji Temple● BAL● ● Post office ▼ ● ︶ Kanbe, Hanakuma, Okuhirano, Sakamoto, Hyogotsu-Kitahama and ● Yamate-kansenAwaji road Shinkin Bank Yonomiya Shrine (4th Shrine) 2, 18 and 92) Kanocho 3-chome No. (Routes Sakamoto Villages, respectively, as village shrines. There is also a Banshu Shinkin Bank

Kanocho 3 Kanocho 3-chome 2, 18 and 92) No. (Routes ●Seven-Eleven FamilyMart● Kenchōmae Koikawa-suji Street Sannomiya Shrine Shrine) (3rd Nisshin Shinkin Bank Hirano District ● 7) No. (Route Gonomiyacho ● Disembarking only Shinsei Bank Sannomiya Shrine Sannomiya Shrine 2 and 92) No. (Routes Welfare Center ● ▲ ● 【 ● Kanocho 3 legend that the Eight Shrines were numbered from 1st to 8th in ● Hyogo Prefectural To Motomachi Station ● Kitanozaka Post office ▼ Royal Host Police Station Line (Yamate Fudozaka ● ▼ ▼ Kanocho 3-chome Hirano (Route No. 7) Driver's license ●R & B Hotel Motomachi 1-chome the order in which Empress Jingu visited them on the way from

renewal center (Routes No. 2 and 92) (2nd Shrine) Shrine Ninomiya

City Subway Seishin- ● road Shimoyamate 5 ▼ Approx. 5 min. walk from “Gonomiyacho” bus stop Embarking only Bank of Tokyo- Yamate-kansen Kyushu. Since ancient times, it has been a custom to visit the Eight Access Yamate Line 【 】 ● Sannomiya Mitsubishi UFJ Sannomiya To ▼ (Route No. 7) Daimaru Kobe Road Flower ▼ Kanocho 3-chome (Yamate Line) ▼ Shrines on the day before the calendric beginning of spring to Note: Approx. 3 min. walk from "Subway Kencho-Mae" Near "Sannomiya Shrine" bus stop (Routes No. 2 and 92) Approx. 2 min. walk from "Motomachi 1-chome" bus stop drive out evil spirits and pray for good fortune, and many people When no one is at the shrine o ce, a x the seal in front of the front shrine or bus stop (Yamate Line) Access Approx. 5 min. walk from ”Kanocho 3-chome" bus Approx. 3 min. walk from ”Kanocho 3-chome" bus Access (Routes No. 2 and 92) Access Access have the seal a xed at the shrine o ce of Gion Shrine (078-361-3450), located Approx. 3 min. walk from West Exit No. 3 at Subway stop (Yamate Line Routes No. 2, 18 and 92) stop (Yamate Line Routes No. 2, 18 and 92) still make a pilgrimage to the Eight Shrines and collect shrine seals. Approx. 3 min. walk from "Sannomiyacho 2-chome" bus approximately 500 meters to the west. "Kenchōmae" Station stop (Route No. 7)