Karafuto Shrine, former Shinto shrine site in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia

Karafuto Shrine was a Shinto shrine in Toyohara, founded in 1911 and ranked as a first-rank imperial shrine (kanpei-taisha). Its buildings included a main hall (honden), a worship hall (haiden), a prayer hall (norito-sha), a shrine office, a torii gate, and a fence (mizugaki). The main hall site is now an empty lot called "Glory Square," where a concrete treasure-house-like structure with a Russian-language metal plaque stands.

The shrine was founded on 23 August 1911, the anniversary of Karafuto's administration, enshrining the three pioneering deities Okunitama, Onamuchi and Sukunabikona. It held the rank of kanpei-taisha, one of 67 first-rank imperial shrines, and served as the province's main tutelary shrine. Abandoned when Soviet troops occupied southern Sakhalin in 1945, it was abolished on 17 November; its kami were burned on 3 September because they could not be returned to Sapporo Shrine.

The shrine's festival, or reisai, was held on 23 August, the anniversary of the shrine's founding and Sakhalin's administrative memorial day. From the 1913 festival onward, a procession carried the portable shrine to a temporary shrine (tongū) within the grounds of Toyohara Shrine. Hokkaido Shrine in Sapporo, successor to Sapporo Shrine, still holds a Karafuto Pioneers Memorial Festival on 23 August.

The shrine site is now an open square called Glory Square, where a victory monument and tanks are displayed; a concrete treasure-house-like structure modelled on a kura stands there with a Russian-language metal plaque inside. The guardian lion-dogs (komainu) are kept in the Sakhalin Regional Museum, formerly the Karafuto Government Museum. About 300 m to the southwest, behind today's Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk city hospital, the foundations of the Karafuto Gokoku Shrine remain.

The shrine's guardian lion-dogs (komainu) are not at the site: they are displayed in the Sakhalin Regional Museum, formerly the Karafuto Prefecture Museum. About 300 m southwest, behind today's Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk city hospital, the foundations of the Karafuto Gokoku Shrine remain.