Since the Heian period, the Shinhojyo-ji Temple, the bettoji (a temple attached to a shrine), had been stood in the precincts of a shrine, however, it was abandoned by the Ordinance Distinguishing Shinto and Buddhism in the early Meiji period.
平安時代より境内には別当寺である新放生寺が存在していたが明治時代初期の神仏分離令により廃された。