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Kushida Shrine
Preserved in the archive in 2009. Historical article; travel and business details may have changed.
Kushida Shrine of Hakata (Fukuoka) is widely known as Okushida-san. Kushida Shrine of Hakata dates back to 757. Kushida Shrine of Hakata (Fukuoka) is a grand tutelary shrine. Kushida Shrine of Hakata is widely known and people warmly refer to it as “Okushida-san.” 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). Kushida Shrine Hakata Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival is dedicated to this Kushida Shrine. In the shrine yard grows a great symbolic gingko tree with two monumental tablets of the Mongolian invasion on its foot. Kushida Shrine of Hakata Location 1-41, Kamikawabata-machi, Hakata-ku, Fukuoka 5 min walk from Nakasukawabata subway station Kushida Shrine Hakata torii | | |