Yuga Shrine, Shinto shrine in Okayama Prefecture, Japan

Yuga-jinja is a Shinto shrine located in Kurashiki, Japan, featuring traditional architectural structures and a quiet setting for personal worship. The grounds include areas for purification rituals, prayer stations, and spaces where visitors leave votive plaques.

According to the Kumano Shrine at the foot of the mountain, five disciples of En no Gyōja brought the Kumano Hongū Taisha from Kishū and founded a shrine here in the early Nara period. In 733 the monk Gyōki installed an Eleven-Faced Kannon, and the site became the syncretic Yuga Daigongen. From the mid-Edo period it was a prayer site of the Ikeda lords of Bizen, who built the shrine buildings; the main hall dates from the early Edo period and is a prefectural Important Cultural Property.

The shrine's name is also written 瑜伽大権現, from the yogic practice of its founding legend. The approach is lined with souvenir shops selling ankoro mochi, a sweet rice cake with bean paste that is Yuga-san's speciality, and crowds fill the path at New Year. Until 2020 a bus ran here from Kojima Station; now worshippers reach the shrine by taxi or on foot.

The shrine stands on Yuga-yama in southern Kurashiki; the former bus line from Kojima Station to Yuga-yama was discontinued on 30 September 2020, so there is no longer a route bus. Access is about 15 minutes by car from the Mizushima interchange of the Seto-Chuo Expressway, or about 15 minutes by taxi from Kojima Station on the Seto-Ohashi Line. On foot it is roughly 4.5 km from Uenosho Station, and about 5 km from the Yuga-toge-guchi bus stop on the Oji-ga-take line.

The shrine is one of 52 branch shrines nationwide, mostly in western Japan. Since 1997 it has operated separately from the Buddhist temple Rendaiji on the same mountain, after a dispute between two brothers over inheritance; the two institutions had shared clergy and buildings for centuries.