Nishino-jinja, Shinto shrine in Japan

Nishino-jinja is a Shinto shrine in Nishi-ku, Sapporo, built in the Shinmei-zukuri style. Its worship hall, offering hall and main sanctuary are connected as one building, with a copper roof and a stone-paved approach from the torii on the Ichinohira Migi-mata road. A separate ceremony hall, built in 2019, stands on the site of the former kagura hall.

The shrine was founded in 1885 by five families from different regions, each of whom had built a small shrine for their ancestral gods. These separate structures gradually merged into the single complex that stands today, supported over the years by donations from the surrounding community.

The shrine's three kami — Toyotama-hime, Ugayafukiaezu no mikoto and Emperor Ōjin as Hondawake no mikoto — are venerated for matchmaking, safe childbirth and child-rearing. Since the early Heisei era, young women seeking good matches have increased, and on inu-no-hi, considered auspicious for safe delivery, pregnant women and couples fill the grounds, especially in the morning, for prayers.

The shrine faces the city road Teine Migata-dori, with a stone-paved approach from the torii to the worship hall. The worship hall, offering hall and main hall are connected as one Shinmei-zukuri building; the ceremony hall and portable-shrine hall stand separately. The shrine office, assembly hall and staff quarters share one building.

The shrine keeps a shinmei-zukuri main hall joined to its worship hall and offering hall as one connected building, and the doors of the inner sanctuary carry wood carvings of a lion and peonies, flanked by guardian figures. The worship hall beams are carved with the twelve zodiac animals, and a carved tablet on its south inner wall recounts the shrine's origin.