[2025 Hiratsuka Attraction] Travel Guide for Hiratsuka Hachimangu Shrine (Updated Jul)

📍Hiratsuka Hachiman Shrine About a 20-minute walk from Hiratsuka Station🚶 There is also parking for a few cars🚗 This shrine is said to be home to many gods, including the Seven Lucky Gods, Benzaiten Shrine and Tsurumineyama Inari. The shrine offers a variety of benefits, including safety in the home, prosperity in business, road safety, improvement in the arts, bountiful harvests, protection from misfortune, protection from all directions, first shrine visit, safe childbirth, Shichigosan, and car purification. There is a beautiful pond inside the shrine, where ducks, geese, and turtles swim comfortably. The ducks also come onto land and walk freely around the grounds, so you're sure to be soothed by their appearance. There is also a horse that seems to bring good fortune, but depending on the time of day, it is taking a break. You can draw a horse fortune nearby, so if the horses are working, please come. In the summer, hydrangeas bloom beautifully and wind chimes decorate the grounds, creating a cool atmosphere. It's a place of worship, but the animals are also soothing, so it's a healing spot in a sense 🪿🦆 #absolutelyfreetrip

It has a great power to ward off evil ⛩✨ Because Minamoto no Yoritomo and Tokugawa Ieyasu were revered here, it is said that you can also receive the benefit of luck in games ✨ We would like to introduce you to Hiratsuka Hachiman Shrine, the power spot of Hachiman in Sagami Province!! You can meet the sacred horses Kochi and Satsuki 🐴Service hours: 10:00-12:00・You can feed them their favorite carrots during service hours from 13:00 to 15:00🥕There are also duck squads🪿💭 turtles and egrets in the shrine grounds, so try and find them😊 ✼••┈┈┈••✼••┈┈┈••✼••┈┈┈••✼••┈┈┈••✼➸Recommended spot information📍Hiratsuka Hachimangu Shrine ✤Address: 1-6 Asamacho, Hiratsuka City, Kanagawa Prefecture✤Access: JR Tokaido Line Hiratsuka Station North Exit ▶︎ 8 minutes walk✤ Parking: Parking available for worshippers✤ Goshuin: 9:00-17:00 ✼••┈┈┈••✼••┈┈┈••✼••┈┈┈••✼••┈┈┈••✼ #0 yen trip January 2025 #shrine

Hiratsuka Hachimangu Shrine can be seen by going straight down Festa Road from JR Hiratsuka Station. The grounds are surrounded by quiet greenery. There are carp in the pond. The fortune slip that caught my eye was the "Shinba Mizumikuji" (Divine Horse Water Fortune Slip). When you dip the slip in water, the letters will appear on the paper. There is also an explanation of passing through a straw ring. There is also a vending machine for Shonan Cookies near the parking lot. About 1km from JR Hiratsuka Station Hiratsuka Hachimangu Shrine 1-6 Asama-cho, Hiratsuka City, Kanagawa Prefecture, 254-0041 #Kanagawa #Hiratsuka #HiratsukaWalk #KanagawaTrip #KanagawaTourism #HiratsukaTourism #HiratsukaTrip #TravelWithMe

#2024wish I have read from other reviewers that maybe it's considered small, but to me, it has a lot of character. I was visiting the shrine on December 31, during the day, and it was a bright beautiful sunny day. Pretty much a five to ten minute walk north from Hiratsuka Station. My friend wanted to come here to pay respect and to pray. Upon entering, there are two ponds on either side of the entrance, with Koi fish and ducks. The layout of the shrine area was really nice and the grounds were beautiful. In 2024, I want to visit this place.

Hiratsuka Hachiman Shrine I went to Hiratsuka Hachiman Shrine on the 1st. There were a lot of people, but I was able to park my car smoothly and get in right away. There were a lot of food stalls, and it was very lively and New Year's-like. As I was walking, I spotted the god of beauty and immediately made an offering lol The warm pork soup in the cold was the best I want to come here every year♪ I'm grateful that it's close to my house. Not only were there food stalls, but there were also food trucks and other food trucks. #Hiratsuka #HiratsukaHachimanShrine #FirstVisitOfTheYear #FoodStallGourmet #NewYear #Beauty

Divine virtues First shrine visit, safe childbirth, protection from misfortune, safety of the home, prosperity in business, road safety, improvement in the arts, etc. Enshrined deities Emperor Ojin Empress Jingu Takeuchi no Sukune History Hiratsuka Hachiman Shrine was founded in 380, the 68th year of the reign of Emperor Nintoku, when a huge earthquake struck the area. Emperor Nintoku (the 16th emperor) was unable to bear the suffering of the people and built a shrine here. Since then, as the only Hachiman Shrine in the entire Sagami Province, it has been revered by successive emperors and samurai, including Minamoto no Yoritomo. In particular, the inscription "Chinchi no Okami" on the red seal is a calligraphy piece bestowed by Empress Suiko (the 33rd emperor). Thus, the shrine attracted many revered people, but during the Sengoku period, it was burned down in war, and the main building, treasures, and biographies of the shrine were all reduced to ashes. In the midst of all this, Tokugawa Ieyasu restored the dilapidated main building of Hiratsuka Hachimangu when he entered Edo. In the Edo period, Hiratsuka Hachimangu became a key transportation hub where the Tokaido road ran east to west, the road to Suga, which was a shipping port, and the road to Atsugi and Oyama intersected, and the area in front of the shrine flourished, and Daimon-dori, the town in front of the shrine, is said to be the birthplace of commerce in Hiratsuka. After the Meiji period, the city of Hiratsuka continued to develop further with the opening of the Naval Explosives Arsenal to the north of the shrine. The main building collapsed in the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, and the current building was completed in 1928. After the war, the shrine came to be deeply revered by the people of Hiratsuka and those with connections to the city as the town grew peaceful and prosperous, and was celebrated with the Hiratsuka Tanabata Festival and other events. To commemorate the 50th anniversary of Hiratsuka's municipal incorporation, it became a sister city with Takayama City in Gifu Prefecture, which dates back to the first year of the Kanji era (1087), when a branch of Hiratsuka Hachimangu Shrine's deity was enshrined in Takayama. The divine virtue of the great god of Hiratsuka Hachimangu Shrine, which has such a history, is said to protect us from major disasters that we cannot solve on our own, heal our wounded bodies and minds, and give us the strength to move forward, as represented by Chinji-no-Okami. #Shrine #Shrine tour #Shrine and temple #Shrine and temple tour #Visiting a shrine #Shrine tour #Shrine lover #Shrine-loving boys #Shrine-loving girls #Cheer at a shrine #Prayer for safe birth #Sacred horse #Hiratsuka Hachimangu Shrine #Hiratsuka #Power spot #Recharge at a power spot #Negative ions #Sagami Province One and only shrine Hiratsuka Hachimangu Shrine #Sagami Province One and only shrine