Sada-jinja, Hirakata, Shinto shrine in Japan

Sada-jinja stands in the Minaminakafuri district of Hirakata, reached by the straight approach called Sada-sandō, which the Keihan main line and the Yao-Hirakata road now cross. The sandō climbs a slope and becomes stone steps from the second torii, where the shrine office stands. Within the grounds are the main hall, rebuilt in March 1889, subsidiary shrines, a kagura hall and a shrine for sacred oxen.

According to shrine tradition, the shrine began in 951, when a hall was built on Sada-yama to enshrine a three-shaku-two-sun wooden statue of Sugawara no Michizane that he had carved and sent to his daughter Kariyahime. The hall burned in the 1614 winter siege of Osaka, but the statue survived; the shrine was moved to its present site and rebuilt as the tutelary shrine of Nakaburi and Deguchi. In 1872 it merged with the Kamo-Taketsunumi shrine and was ranked a gōsha; the current hall dates from March 1889.

The shrine is dedicated to Sugawara no Michizane, a historic figure revered in Japanese culture for scholarship and wisdom. Visitors come to write wishes on wooden plaques and leave them at the shrine, a practice that connects daily life with centuries-old Shinto traditions.

The shrine is about 500 metres southeast of Kōzenji Station on the Keihan Main Line, roughly a seven-minute walk. The straight approach, Sada-sandō, is crossed by the Keihan line and by Osaka Prefectural Route 21; the shrine name marker and first torii stand at that crossing. From the second torii the path becomes stone steps, with the shrine office just before it.

The shrine's name comes from the story of Sugawara no Michizane's daughter Kariyahime, who stamped her feet (sada) in grief when she failed to catch her exiled father. The wooden statue Michizane later sent her from Dazaifu is kept as the shrine's go-shintai, said to be carved by his own hand.