Taga Shrine

Quick facts

Address

701 Nogata, Nogata, Fukuoka

Spiritual entities

Izanagi (伊邪那岐命) · Izanami (伊邪那美命)

About this place

Taga Shrine is in Nogata, Fukuoka. It enshrines two deities: Izanagi, the male deity, and Izanami, the female deity, the married pair who created the land of Japan and bore the eight million deities. Its stated benefits are health and long life; the tying of bonds and safe birth; safety in the household and in traffic; and prayers for safety in construction work and the prevention of accidents and disasters.

Origin and history

It enshrines two deities: Izanagi, the male deity, and Izanami, the female deity, the married pair who created the land of Japan and bore the eight million deities.

Its stated benefits are health and long life; the tying of bonds and safe birth; safety in the household and in traffic; and prayers for safety in construction work and the prevention of accidents and disasters.

What it is locally associated with

• Power spotHealth & HealingLove & RomanceFertility & ChildrenProtection & Safety

  From long life to construction safety

  Its benefits are health and long life, the tying of bonds and safe birth, safety at home and in traffic, and safety in construction work.

  documented history

• Origin

  The pair who made the land

  It enshrines Izanagi and Izanami, the married pair who created the land of Japan and bore the eight million deities.

  documented history

The list of benefits here begins with the body and ends on a worksite. Health and long life; bonds and safe birth; safety at home and in traffic; and then safety in construction work and the prevention of accidents. One person’s whole life and the avoidance of industrial accidents sit in the same list.

Fukuoka keeps producing shrines that take on the safety of work. Hikosan Jingu is guardian of mines and of factory safety; Arahito Shrine in Nakagawa calls its deity one of fortune in work, who helps in seeing work through. Himuro Shrine in Nara belongs to the ice makers. Prayer divided up by trade or by workplace is a shape this corpus keeps meeting, and this shrine belongs to it.

The deities are a married pair — the two who made the land and bore the eight million deities. That bonds and safe birth appear among the benefits follows from what they are.

The shrine’s own guide gives neither a founding year nor an account of its medieval rebuilding, so this page gives neither.

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Sources

1. 神社のご案内 — Taga Shrine, Nogata (accessed 2026-08-15)