Itsukushima-jinja, Shinto shrine in Hanakuma-chō, Chūō-ku, Kobe, Japan

Itsukushima-jinja is a small Shinto shrine in Hanakuma-chō, Chūō-ku, Kobe, enshrining Ichikishimahime and Ōmononushi. It is one of seven Itsukushima shrines that Taira no Kiyomori had established when he built the Fukuhara capital. The shrine stands in a built-up city block, reached in about seven minutes on foot west of Motomachi Station.

This shrine in Kobe's Chūō-ku is one of seven Itsukushima shrines that Taira no Kiyomori had established when he built the Fukuhara capital. It first stood at Benzen-chō on the left bank of the Uji River mouth; during the construction of Kobe Port in the early Meiji period it was moved to Sakai-machi-dōri 6-chōme, and around 1946 it was relocated to its present site for the building of the Kobe Central Post Office.

The shrine's name comes from Itsukushima in Aki Province, where Taira no Kiyomori had a branch shrine built; this Kobe shrine was one of seven Itsukushima shrines he established when developing Fukuhara-kyō. It enshrines Ichikishimahime and Ōmononushi. The name Benten-chō near the Ujigawa and Route 2 crossing survives because the shrine once stood there.

The shrine stands in Hanakuma-chō, about a seven-minute walk west of Motomachi Station on the JR Kōbe and Hanshin lines. It sits in a built-up city block, so look for the shrine grounds among the surrounding buildings rather than a waterfront setting.

The shrine's name survives in the neighbourhood: the area where the Ujigawa river meets National Route 2 is still called Benten-chō, after the Benzaiten (Ichikishimahime) once worshipped here. The shrine was moved three times — from the river's left bank to Saka-machi 6-chōme, then to its present site around 1946 for the Kobe Central Post Office.