It shares the rank of the Ise Grand Shrine in the shinkai system.

The shrine can be reached by Nichizengū Station on the Wakayama Electric Railway Kishigawa Line.

The shrine is one of the oldest in Japan and has deep connections with mythology.

The "Nihon Shoki" says that a mirror cast by Ishikori-dome-no-Mikoto before the Yata-no-Kagami, when Amaterasu Omikami hid in Amano-Iwato, is enshrined at the Hinokuma Shrine.

Initially, the shrine was located in Hamanomiya, Mezugori, Nagusa District.