Situated amid a red light district and overlooked by a love hotel, this is the shrine to which Junko Inari Jinja traces its origin. It was founded in 1457, apparently at the behest of Ota Dokan when he was overseeing the construction of Edo Castle and the enshrined kami was Fushimi Inari. In 1602, after Tokugawa Ieyasu had taken residence in the castle and expansion work begun, the shrine was moved to Miyamasuzaka in Shibuya.  Edo Castle had two alternate names, Kōjō (江城) and Chiyodajō (千代田城), and it is from the latter of these that the shrine’s name derives.

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Local residents deeply revered the shrine and their faith was rewarded when the Imperial Princess Kazunomiya (和宮親子内親王) was proceeding to the Imperial Palace along with her husband, the 14th Tokugawa shogun, Iemochi  (徳川家茂). This was at a time of great political unrest just prior to the Meiji Restoration and Princess Kazunomiya was said to have been so relieved that the procession went unhindered that she later went to the shrine to offer thanks on behalf of her husband. This resulted in an outpouring of donations to the shrine, including torii. 

The shrine was featured in the Edo Meisho Zue and can also be seen in ukiyoe by Utagawa Yoshikazu (歌川芳員) and other artists.

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After the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 the shrine was relocated to the nearby Shibuya Hyakkenten. It was later destroyed during the war but was quite quickly rebuilt. The shrine operators begin looking for a suitable location for a new shrine; they were granted some land which contained the family shrine of the former Nashimoto family. This was completely remodelled and Nakagawa Inari Jinja, which had been the area’s tutelary shrine, was subordinated to the new Chiyoda Inari Jinja. In 1952 a grand ceremony was held to celebrate the new shrine’s completion.