Mikado-jinja, Shinto shrine in Japan

Mikado-jinja is a Shinto shrine in Misato, Miyazaki Prefecture, whose main hall (honden) is a seven-bay nagare-zukuri structure built in 1661 and designated an Important Cultural Property in 2000. A protective cover now shelters the wooden hall. The shrine keeps 33 bronze mirrors and more than a thousand iron weapons, including spearheads and arrowheads, in the attic of the honden.

According to shrine tradition, Mikado-jinja was founded in 718. Its legends tell that Prince Teika of Baekje, a kingdom that fell in 660, reached Hyūga and settled here, where he was later venerated as a kami. The honden, a seven-bay nagare-zukuri building erected in 1661, was designated an Important Cultural Property in 2000.

The shrine's name comes from its founding legend: Prince Teika-O of Baekje, who fled his fallen kingdom, settled here and was worshipped as a kami after death. His son Fuchi-O is enshrined at Hiki Shrine in Kijo, and each year the Shiwasu Festival brings the two together. The shrine keeps 24 mirrors said to be the king's relics.

Access is by Miyazaki Kotsu bus from the Tōchō stop in front of Hyūga-shi Station on the JR Nippō Line, about 1 hour 10 minutes to the Mikado-bound terminus; get off at the Hyakusai-no-Yakata-mae stop, right by the shrine. The shrine stands along National Route 446, and the mound called Tsukanohara Kofun, marked by a stone post reading "Hyakusaiō Teika-tei Kofun", lies about 50 m south in the fields.

The shrine keeps 33 bronze mirrors as prefectural cultural properties: 4 from the Kofun period, 17 Tang-style mirrors from the Nara period, 3 from the Heian period and 9 from the Muromachi period onward. They are now stored at the "Western Shosoin". A board painting of Kannon, made in 1401 by the monk Biku Chozon, is also a prefectural cultural property.