lower reaches of the River Hachiman with the carving of the true Hachiman as the enshrined kami. The shrine became known as the Hachiman-Gū and its annual festival, the Reisai, was celebrated  by the villagers of Negishi Village on September 15.  

The centuries passed, and over a millennium later, in 1651, a land survey resulted in Shibahara being merged into a nearby village called Takegashira and the Negishi villagers losing their tutelary deity.  They began worshiping at an improvised shrine in the grounds of the nearby Shirataki Fudōson Temple. Over a century passed until on January 15, 1766 Hachiman Daibosatsu  appeared to the temple`s chief priest in a dream and announced that he wanted to be moved back to Negishi Village and worshipped at shrines in both Negishi and Takegahara. His  wishes were carried out and on July 15 of the same year the Hachiman-Gū in the Fudōson Temple was moved to its present location in what been an Inari Jinja owned by a temple, Hōshaku-ji. On the vacated site a new shrine, Hachimanbashi Hachiman Jinja, was built. The relocated shrine became known as Moto Hachiman, “the Original Hachiman,” and Hōshaku-ji served as betto-ji for both. With the enactment of the  Separation of Shintō and Buddhism Ordinance in 1869 the Hachimanbashi Hachiman Jinja was disestablished and Moto Hachiman became the sole tutelary deity for Negishi Village. In 1875 the Reisai was changed from September 15 to August 15, and in 1908 five other local shrines were merged into Moto Hachiman in line with the "one village one shrine" policy. 

In 1923 the stone torii and other structures were damaged; reconstruction was completed in 1931. In 1938 the nearby Shirayama Gongen-sha was destroyed during a torrential rain storm and its kami were jointly enshrined in the honden. The in-ground Inari Jinja is said to have been the one originally owned  by Hōshaku-ji and is thus sometimes referred to as "Jinushi Inari," (地主稲荷, "Landlord Inari.")  Directly behind the shrine, and a good climb up, is the Negishi Kyūkaigansen no mori  根岸旧海岸線の森 (Negishi Forest Park) and this has been designated as one of Kanagawa-ken’s 50 beautiful forests (美林). It contains 350 cherry trees and the Equine Museum of Japan is situated next to the park’s main entrance. This, though, is about 1k from the shrine.