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, widely known as a summer feature of Hakata, is dedicated to this shrine. 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 & 5 minutes walk. |
| Open Hours | Main hall: 4:00-22:00 |
| MAP CODE | 13319705*76 |






