Kumagawa Jinja Shrine
This shrine dates back to the early Heian period when a tribe engaging in iron-making enshrined the deity of a while snake as the god of iron on this site that the tribe used as a place of worship.
Until the end of the Edo period (1603-1868), it was called Nuka Daimyojin Shrine. In 1870, the shrine was renamed as Kumagawa-jinja Shrine.
The main building of the shrine is the second oldest among the existing main buildings of shrines in Tokyo. In the precinct, there are “Fussa Seven Deities of Good Fortune” statues that people can worship.
The shrine is a Tokyo municipally designated tangible cultural property (building) and a Fussa municipally registered tangible cultural property.
