Four structures of the shrine, the Honden, Haiden and Heiden, and Karamon gate are designated National Important Cultural Properties.

[5] Initially called the Inaba Tōshō-gū (因幡東照宮) after Inaba Province, the shrine was constructed by Ikeda Mitsunaka, the first daimyō of Tottori Domain under the Edo period Tokugawa shogunate.

Mitsunaka became daimyō in 1632 at the age of three, but it was only 16 years later, in December 1649, that he was allowed to first visit his domain.

In commemoration of this event, he petitioned the shogunate for permission to construct at shrine to Tōshō Dai-gongen, the deified spirit of Tokugawa Ieyasu, who was his great-grandfather.

In October 2011, the name was officially changed to Tottori Tōshō-gū This article about a Japanese religious building or structure is a stub.