Ōyamazumi Shrine

photo by Mika-wa-Taro · CC BY-SA 3.0

photo by そらみみ · CC BY-SA 4.0

80% of Japan's National Treasure armour is here, along with a camphor tree 2,600 years old.

The shrine's treasure museum holds about 80% of the Japanese armour designated a National Treasure or an Important Cultural Property (including the oldest surviving armour of the mid-Heian period), and this is why Ōmishima is called ‘the island of national treasures’. In the grounds grows a sacred camphor tree about 2,600 years old, 20 metres tall with a trunk 12 metres in circumference, which according to tradition was planted by Ochi no Mikoto when the shrine was founded; the shrine's group of camphor trees has been a national Natural Monument since 1951. The shrine is considered the head shrine (総本社) of all the Ōyamazumi and Mishima shrines in Japan.

A Shinto shrine on Ōmishima Island, along the Shimanami Kaidō between Ehime and Hiroshima, dedicated to Ōyamatsumi, the god of the mountain and the sea.

ℹ️ Office telephone and hours when calls are answered: 9:00–16:00 (0897-82-0032). Neither the exact opening hours of the treasure museum nor the ticket price were found on an official source: to be checked before your visit.

🚉 大山祗神社 · 3 min walk

Sources: oomishimagu.jp · oomishimagu.jp

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