[5] The shrine was located to the north of the mountain Namsan.

Initially the shrine only worshipped Amaterasu but it later added the Three Pioneer Kami (開拓三神, Kaitaku Sanjin) Ōkunitama [simple], Ōkuninushi, and Sukunahikona used in Japanese colonial shrines.

[2]: 140 Uniquely it referred to Kunitama as Chosen Kunitama suggesting a distinctly Korean flavor, as this shrine attempted to integrate many Korean customs.

[2]: 140 In 1936 the government released a memo saying that Okunitama was in fact a generic title for any Korean deity and not Dangun.

The name was also changed to Kunitama-no-Okami as a parallel to Amaterasu Omikami[2]: 140