Kanabu Shrine, Shinto shrine in Japan

Kanabu Shrine is a Shinto shrine on the mid-slope of Mount Kinbu in Ogaki, Gifu Prefecture. It was separated from the nearby Myosho-ji temple in 1869 and moved to its present site. The shrine grounds are partly leased to the adjacent Kinbu Fossil Museum.

The shrine began as the Zao Gongen hall of Myosho-ji, a temple founded in 686 by En no Ozunu on the orders of Empress Jito, who is said to have invited the deity from Yoshino. In 1869, under the separation of Shinto and Buddhism, it became independent, changed its deity from Zao Gongen to Emperor Ankan, took the name Kanabu Shrine, and moved to its present site. It became a village shrine in 1871 and was designated a prefectural shrine by the Gifu Shrine Agency in 1959.

The shrine's deity is Emperor Ankan, to whom it was rededicated in 1869 when it separated from Myōjōrin-ji; before that the enshrined kami was Zao Gongen, kept at that temple as guardian of Kokūzō Bosatsu. Each year on the second Sunday of April the Akasaka Festival, held in the old Akasaka post town, serves as the shrine's annual rite.

The shrine sits on the left side when entering from a nearby street and features a narrow entrance that can easily be missed. Visitors should look carefully while walking through the area to spot the small site nestled between surrounding buildings.

The shrine stands on the slope of Mount Kanabu, and the neighbouring Kanabu Fossil Museum rents part of its grounds for its building. The mountain is known for fossils, and the museum displays specimens from the site beside the shrine precinct.