The Ōmiwa Shrine is directly linked to Mount Miwa in that the mountain is the shrine's shintai, or kami-body, instead of a building housing a kami-body. This type of mountain worship (shintai-zan) is found in the earliest forms of Shinto, and has also been employed at Suwa Shrine in Nagano, and formerly at Isonokami Shrine in Nara and Munakata Shrine in Fukuoka.