During the Meiji period, the entire shrine was commandeered by the state to serve as a gunpowder magazine; during which time the deities were transferred to the their current location in what was the building in which the sacred palanquin was stored in the former village of Okada and this was also the time when the shrine was renamed to its previous name of Kohata-jinja Shrine.
明治時代、陸軍火薬庫の建設のため社地全体が官有地として召し上げられ、当社は御旅所であった旧岡田村内の現在地に遷座し、その際に社名を旧称の許波多神社に改称した。