Nakayama Shrine

中山神社 · Shinto shrine

The Tsuyama Town-Wide Museum consortium records that the shrine has long been regarded as the most important shrine in Mimasaka Province, and that its main deity is the kami of mirror-making and metalworking.

The buildings of Nakayama Shrine seen from an angle, with dark bark-shingled roofs above a low wooden fence, on a gravel ground under a blue sky with clouds. — Saigen Jiro · Wikimedia Commons · CC0Resized and compressed for web display. Not cropped.

The Agency for Cultural Affairs records the shrine's main hall as an Important Cultural Property of the late Muromachi period.

Hours

The directions below are the ones Okayama Prefecture's tourism federation publishes in Japanese.

We have not found opening hours published for this shrine. The sources below give the other details on this page.

Admission

We have not confirmed a charge from this shrine's own pages. We have no page published by the shrine itself to link to, so check on the day. The sources used for this page are listed below.

Getting there

About 20 minutes by bus from JR Tsuyama Station (bus bound for Nishitanabe) to the Ichinomiya Hoikusho-mae stop

Okayama Prefecture Tourism Federation (Okayama Kanko Web) — Nakayama Shrine (Japanese)

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Sources

History and background	Tsuyama Town-Wide Museum consortium — Nakayama Shrine (English)
What you can see	Agency for Cultural Affairs — Nakayama Shrine main hall (Important Cultural Property)
Getting there	Okayama Prefecture Tourism Federation (Okayama Kanko Web) — Nakayama Shrine (Japanese)

Information checked: September 15, 2026.