Hachiman JInja. The resultant shrine became the tutelary jinja of the Motojuku area, and in 1931, when Motojuku itself was renamed Motomachi, the jinja's name remained Motojuku in order to preserve the old name.

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Description

About 1.6-1.7 km on foot from Kitasenju Station. Hemmed in as it is by high rise and other buildings, it is difficult to get an unobstructed view of the shrine overall. As with the Naka-chō and Ōikawa-chō Hikawa shrines, Motojuku Jinja is on the Senju Shichifukujin circuit, it houses Jurōjin, the kami of longevity, whose statue was moved to the shrine from a nearby temple, Genchō-ji, in 2008. The phrase on the left of his name board,　ぼけ封じ, "bokefūji", has strong buddhist connotations. Roughly translated it means the warding off of senility and is most commonly found in the expression "Bokefūji Kantō sanjūsan Kannon Reijō" (ぼけ封じ関東三十三観音霊場, The 33 places sacred to Kannon in Kantō). Kannon is the Buddhist Goddess of Compassion, in Sanskrit Avalokiteśvara.

There are, however, two more direct Buddhist presences in the shrine. One is a Daishidō (a hall with an enshrined statue of Kobo Daishi, usually at a Shingon-sect temple). This particular enshrined statue may well have first graced the Tamonji Temple in nearby Sumida-ku when it was ceremonially opened in 1912 before finding its way to its current location in 1925 and is the fifth stop on the Kōryō Hachijūhachi Reijō (荒綾八十八ヶ所霊場, the eighty-eight places sacred to Kobo Daishi) circuit. The other is a statue of Hachiman Daibosatsu, this is another way Hachiman Ōkami was often referred to during the Shinbutsu Shugo period. Suzuki Sadamune or another member of his family is said to have carried the statue around the battlefields of Shinano Province entreating the assembled kami for victory.