Watatsu Shrine

is a Japanese Shinto shrine at Sado, Niigata, which is an island in the Sea of Japan.VisitSado.com,  Watatsu Shrine ; retrieved 2012-11-6. 

History
The shrine was established before the 10th century.Sado Travel Guide,  Hamochi ; 佐渡市 観光課 観光振興係 (Sado Tourism Promotion), 佐渡一ノ宮度津神社 (Sado Ichinomiya Shrine); excerpt, 度津神社の由緒は「延喜式」神名帳（927年）に記載されている神社を式内社と言い、当時佐渡の国には九社あり; retrieved 2012-11-6.  This place is special to the kami named  .Pickens, Stuart D. B. (2004).  Sourcebook in Shinto: Selected Documents, p. 372.  Isonotakeru is said to have taught people shipbuilding and how to use ships.Kotodamaya.com,  "Watatsu Jinja"; retrieved 2012-11-6.

Each year in late-April, horseback archery (yabusame) takes place at the branch  Hachimangū of Watatsu Shrine in the town of Hamochi. "Yabusame shinji," Encyclopedia of Shinto; retrieved 2012-11-6.

Watatsu was the chief Shinto shrine (ichinomiya) of the old Sado Province on Sado Island.  It serves today as one of the ichinomiya of Niigata Prefecture.  
"Nationwide List of Ichinomiya," p. 2 ; retrieved 2012-3-13.

In the modern system of ranked Shinto Shrines, Watatsu was listed among the 3rd class of nationally significant shrines or .

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Category:Shinto shrines
Category:Beppyo shrines
Category:Kokuhei Shōsha
Category:Ichinomiya
Category:Niigata Prefecture
Category:Shikinai Shōsha
Category:Shikinaisha in Sado Province