Aruka Shrine

有鹿神社

Aruka Shrine stands in the historic Aruka area centered on present-day Ebina, Kanagawa. Official pages say that in the Nara and Heian periods it guarded Sagami Province’s provincial capital with broad precincts and an approach reaching Monzawabashi, then declined after Muromachi wars before reviving through the Mizuhiki Festival that protects local irrigation water. The shrine network includes an okumiya at the Hatogawa source, a chugu midstream, and a hongu near the Sagami River confluence. Office hours for amulets and written goshuin are listed on the shrine site.