Kushida Shrine
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History of Hakata area(Hakata-ku)

Summary

This grand tutelary shrine of Hakata is widely known and people warmly refer to it as “Okushida-san.” It is dedicated to the gods of Ohatanushi-no-mikoto, Amaterasu-omikami and Susanowo-no-mikoto. According to tradition, 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). Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival is dedicated to this shrine and is widely known as a summer feature of Hakata. In the shrine yard grows a great symbolic gingko tree with two monumental tablets of the Mongolian invasion on its foot.

Address 1-41, Kamikawabata-machi, Hakata-ku, Fukuoka
Access By Subway: Get off at Nakasukawabata or Gion station (5min.walk).
URL http://www.city.fukuoka.jp/cgi-bin2/taitaiweb/search/searchget.cgi?scode=9800421&kcode=2035&backno=1
Open Hours Main hall: 4:00-22:00
MAP CODE 13319705*76