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Our guide
Tokiwa Shrine stands next to the gardens of Kairakuen Garden in Mito, Ibaraki. Founded in 1874, it enshrines Tokugawa Mitsukuni, second daimyō of the Mito Domain and compiler of the Dai Nihonshi, whose retirement villa was Seizansō, and Tokugawa Nariaki, ninth lord and founder of the domain school Kōdōkan. In 1882 it was ranked a Bekkaku Kanpeisha. Its annual festival is on 12 May, and a cannon and a drum here are city cultural properties.
Kairakuen Station on the Jōban Line is about 250 m away in a straight line, and Art Tower Mito about 1.1 km.
Written by japan-spots.com (2026-09-22) from the sources credited on this page. Distances are straight lines between map positions.
Photos
Photos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence — see credits
- Tokiwa-jinja haiden — Stanislaus · Public domain · source · resized
- Tokiwa Jinja Torii — 百楽兎 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source · resized
- 常磐神社 - panoramio — CyberOyaji · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source · resized
- 常磐神社 - panoramio (9) — CyberOyaji · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source · resized
- 常磐神社 - panoramio (10) — CyberOyaji · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source · resized
- The noh stage of Tokiwa Jinja — 三三五五 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source · resized
- 常磐神社の義烈館 — AT@wiki · CC BY-SA 2.0 · source · resized
- 常磐神社の東湖神社 — AT@wiki · CC BY-SA 2.0 · source · resized
- 常磐神社の授与所 — AT@wiki · CC BY-SA 2.0 · source · resized
- 常磐神社の社務所 — AT@wiki · CC BY-SA 2.0 · source · resized
What this place is
Tokiwa Jinja (常磐神社) is a Shinto shrine adjacent to the gardens of Kairakuen in Mito, Ibaraki, Japan. Founded in 1874, enshrined are Tokugawa Mitsukuni, second daimyō of the Mito Domain and compiler of Dai Nihonshi, and Tokugawa Nariaki, ninth lord and founder of the nearby Kōdōkan han school. In 1882 the shrine joined the ranks of the bekkaku kanpeisha (別格官幣社) or Imperial Shrines. The Tokiwa Jinja Reisai or annual festival is held on 12 May. A cannon and a drum have been designated as Cultural Properties by the city.
Visitor information checked: 2026-10-07 · Official visitor information
Background text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
What to expect at this type of place: Shrine
Nearby station
Nearby station: Kairakuen (Jōban Line), about 250 m from the spot in a straight line.
Worked out on 2026-09-14 from this place’s map position, using HeartRails Express station data and station names from Wikidata. The distance is a straight line, not a walking route, and says nothing about buses, transfers or timetables — plan the trip on Google Maps.
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