It is said that Kattamine-jinja Shrine was a temple literally named Kinpusen-ji Temple of Shugen-do which was a mixture of Shinto and Buddhism before the Exclusion of Buddhism in the Meiji period.
刈田嶺神社は、明治の廃仏毀釈以前は神仏混淆の修験道の金峯山寺という文字通り寺であったという。