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Compare the visit scope, transport notes and prayer traditions of the shrines currently listed here. This is a selected guide, not a complete regional directory.
Compare three railway-friendly visits: Ikuta near Sannomiya for relationship prayers and a woodland walk, Minatogawa near Kobe Station for Kusunoki Masashige's history, and Nishinomiya for Ebisu traditions and historic gate and wall. They are separate stops, not one walk; compare station travel and counter hours before precinct time.
Vermilion gate and main worship area · Ikuta woodland behind the shrine · Relationship-prayer traditions
Estimated visit
20–40 min
Ordinary worship and a short walk in Ikuta woodland; excludes transport, counter queues and formal prayers.
Getting there
The official guide gives about 10 minutes on foot north from JR Sannomiya or the private-railway Sannomiya stations, and about 20 minutes south from Shin-Kobe.
Main worship hall rebuilt in 1952 · Main gate and paved central approach · Places associated with Kusunoki Masashige
Estimated visit
20–40 min
Ordinary worship and the main precinct; excludes the treasure museum, formal prayers, transport and queues.
Getting there
About 3 minutes on foot from JR Kobe Station; the east exit of Kosoku Kobe Station leads close to the shrine. Okurayama subway station is about 5 minutes away.
Red Gate (omote daimon) · Long earthen wall (oneribei) · Vermilion shrine buildings and Ebisu traditions
Estimated visit
20–40 min
Ordinary worship, the Red Gate and a short precinct walk; excludes exhibitions, transport and festival queues.
Getting there
About 5 minutes on foot from the Ebisu exit of Hanshin Nishinomiya Station, or 10 minutes from JR Sakura Shukugawa Station. JR Nishinomiya is a different station.
Address & enshrined kami
1-17 Shakecho, Nishinomiya, Hyogo
Ebisu Okami (Hiruko) · Amaterasu Omikami · Okuninushi no Okami · Susanoo no Okami
