It was founded by Empress Jingu when she returned from the Three Han (三韓, Korea) campaign.

[1][2] She was nearly shipwrecked but managed to survive thanks to praying to Watatsumi, and she made the shrine to honor him.

[2] It contains the Settsu Sannomiya According to Nihon Shoki, it was founded by the Empress Jingū at the beginning of the 3rd century AD to enshrine the kami Wakahirume.

The shrine's land was much larger back then, before the city of Kobe was built around it.

Thus, the precise locations of skirmishes or events can no longer be commemorated on shrine land.