Atsuta Shrine in Nagoya is a Shinto shrine that the article says the Owari clan founded in 192. It names no architect or formal client. The architecture is listed as Shinmei-zukuri, the style of Ise Shrine, and the article says it was remodeled in that style in 1893. The complex covers about 2.2 million square feet (200,000 m²) and draws over 9 million visitors a year.
Air raids in the Pacific War burned many buildings. The main buildings, including the honden, were reconstructed and completed in 1955, and the Treasure Hall followed in 1966. The Kusanagi-kan, which displays the shrine's swords, was built in 2019. The wooden Kaijō-mon gate, a National Treasure, was lost in bombing on May 17, 1945. The west gate, Chinkō-mon, another National Treasure, was lost that July.
The sources conflict on when the sacred sword reached the shrine. The Nihonshoki and shrine tradition give different reigns.
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