Shiogama Jinja (鹽竈神社) is a Japanese Shinto shrine in Shiogama, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan.

The shrine was established in the ninth century. Shiogama jinja was one of two the chief Shinto shrines (ichinomiya) for the Mutsu Province. When Miyagi Prefecture and Fukushima Prefecture were create in the Meiji period, the shrine continued to be the ichinomiya for the same area.^[1]

Media related to Shiogama-jinja at Wikimedia Commons

• (in Japanese) Shiogama Jinja homepage
• (in Japanese) Guide to the Cultural Properties of Shiogama City Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine
• (in English) Introduction to Shiogama Jinja Archived 2012-09-05 at the Wayback Machine

38°19′9″N 141°0′43″E / 38.31917°N 141.01194°E / 38.31917; 141.01194

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