Since there is a passage in the "Nihonshoki" (Chronicles of Japan) written in 3 B.C. saying that 'Miyake (Imperial-controlled territory) was founded in Kurumemura Village that year', the shrine is thought to have been founded at around that time.
『日本書紀』垂仁天皇27年に「是歳、来目邑に屯倉を興す」という記述があり、創建もその頃とみられる。