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Central Area 15

Hakusan Shrine



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Temples & Shrines
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Hakusan Shrine
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Central Area 15

Hakusan Shrine was established in 987 or 988 and protected Kitayokonomiya (present-day Nukashin-machi in Kanazawa City and the northern area of Hon-machi 2-chome in Nonoichi City). The main hall was located in Kitayokonomiya, and the worship hall was at Hakusan Shrine. However, because these two halls were too far from one another, the main hall was moved to Hakusan Shrine in the early 19th century. There is a small shrine in Kitayokonomiya surrounded by large machilus thunbergii trees, which are valuable because such a cluster of machilus thunbergii trees is very rare in plain areas.