Toyotaki Jinja
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In short
Enshrined in September 1908, alongside a settlement that began on land held by a university forest.
Quick facts
- Address
- 501-2 Toyotaki, Minami-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido
- Spiritual entities
- Amaterasu Ōmikami (天照大御神)
About this place
Toyotaki Jinja stands in Toyotaki, Minami-ku, Sapporo. Its deities are Amaterasu-omikami and Oyamatsumi. Settlement of the Toyotaki district began in the later years of Meiji on land owned by the Hokkaido University experimental forest, and it became the mixed enterprise of orchards, dry fields and rice that it is today. Amaterasu-omikami and Oyamatsumi were enshrined in September 1908, and that is the beginning. Repairs and rebuilding were carried out twice, in 1956 and 1980. In 1996 the shrine was obliged to move on account of the widening of a national highway; a rite of celebration was held on 31 August and it has been seated on its present ground since. The annual festival is 12 September. No benefit that may be prayed for is stated.
Origin and history
Settlement of the Toyotaki district began in the later years of Meiji on land owned by the Hokkaido University experimental forest, and it became the mixed enterprise of orchards, dry fields and rice that it is today. Amaterasu-omikami and Oyamatsumi were enshrined in September 1908, and that is the beginning.
Repairs and rebuilding were carried out twice, in 1956 and 1980.
In 1996 the shrine was obliged to move on account of the widening of a national highway; a rite of celebration was held on 31 August and it has been seated on its present ground since.
What it is locally associated with
Settlement on experimental-forest land
Settlement of the Toyotaki district began in the later years of Meiji on land owned by the Hokkaido University experimental forest.
documented historyEnshrined in September 1908
Amaterasu-omikami and Oyamatsumi were enshrined in September 1908, and that is given as the beginning.
documented historyMoved for a highway
In 1996 the shrine was obliged to move on account of the widening of a national highway, and a rite of celebration was held on 31 August.
documented history
The settling of this ground began on property belonging to a university. Settlement began on land owned by the Hokkaido University experimental forest, the shrine writes. Behind Sapporo’s other shrines lie militia allotments, land released by the government, a field someone gave from his own holding. An experimental forest appears only here.
The account of the beginning is brief. Amaterasu-omikami and Oyamatsumi were enshrined in September 1908, and that is the beginning — no source shrine, no promoter named. In a city where most entries record where their divided spirit came from, this one stands without a stated origin.
The reason for moving is recorded too: obliged to move on account of the widening of a national highway. Kamiteine Jinja and Mizuho Jinja in this region also moved, but their records give no cause; here the cause is set down, and the cause was a road.
The district’s living is kept in a single line as well: the mixed enterprise of orchards, dry fields and rice — fruit, field crops and paddy worked side by side, in the shrine’s own description of the place around it.
Claims and evidence levels 2
- Amaterasu-omikami and Oyamatsumi were enshrined in September 1908, as settlement proceeded on Hokkaido University experimental-forest land. documented history
- The shrine moved to its present ground in 1996 because a national highway was widened. documented history
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Sources
- 豊滝神社 — 北海道神社庁札幌支部 (accessed 2026-08-16)
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