Ikoma Shrine, Shinto shrine in Ichibuchō, Japan

Ikoma Shrine, formally Ikomaniimasu-Ikomatsuhiko Jinja, has seven connected Kasuga-zukuri sanctuaries under one roof, their gables facing forward. The main hall is raised on a stone base with a dark tiled roof, open timber facade, white panels above the crossbeams, and a wooden railing; a lower roofed structure with a decorated gable stands to the left behind a low stone wall. A stone torii with a twisted straw rope and four paper streamers tops a short flight of wide steps.

The Sokoku-Fudoki records the shrine as already existing in 458, when Mount Ikoma itself was the object of worship. In 859 the Nihon Sandai Jitsuroku notes a rank of Junior Fifth Rank, Upper Grade for Ikomatsu-Hikohiko-no-Kami, and the 972 Engishiki lists it as a Kanpei-taisha of Heguri District, Yamato Province, receiving monthly and harvest offerings. In the Kamakura period five Hachiman deities were added to the two original kami, making seven; the Meiji separation of Buddhism and Shinto abolished its eleven jingū-ji and the shrine became a prefectural shrine.

The shrine is known for fire rituals: its sacred wood, called hahaka (today's uwamizuzakura cherry), was sent to the court for the Daijōsai enthronement rite. The October festival, Hi-matsuri (Fire Festival), has young men carrying torches race down the stone steps; Nara Prefecture lists it as an intangible folk cultural property. A Kannondō hall with an Eleven-faced Kannon statue, said to be by Unkei, survives from the era of Buddhist-Shinto fusion.

The shrine stands in Ichibuchō, a short walk from Kintetsu Ikoma Line's Ichibu Station; the approach passes the stone torii at the top of a flight of wide stone steps. Drivers reach the area via the Ikomayama bypass of Route 168 or the Ikomayama exit of the Daini-Hanna toll road.

The fire-drill wood (hikiriki) used at the Daijōsai enthronement rite came from this shrine, made from hahaka wood identified with the present-day uwamizuzakura (Prunus grayana). Records such as the Kitayamashō and Genyōki call the shrine's deity "Hikiriki-no-kami", and the shrine supplied the wood for Emperor Akihito's Daijōsai.