Tsurugaya Hachimangū

What it is

• Shrine in Tateyama City, Chiba Prefecture.
• Founded in the early Heian period as Awa-no-Kuni Soja.
• Dedicated to Hondawake-no-mikoto and Okinagatarashihime-no-mikoto.
• Revered by the Satomi clan and Tokugawa shogunate.

What to see

• Main hall, built in 1721, is a city cultural property.
• Heiden and Haiden structures, built in 1932.

When to go

• Annual Yawata-matsuri festival is a prefectural cultural property.

Getting there

• Approximately 1 kilometer north of Tateyama Station.

Notes written by Japan Gems from facts in Japanese Wikipedia.