Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A 1.6-meter tea-style gate on knotted log posts and 60 meters of tiled walls divide the front of the Onogi estate in Yamashina, Kyoto, from its inner garden.

Completed in 1941, this storehouse closes the south end of the storehouse row on the Onogi estate in Yamashina, Kyoto, and has hooded windows on two of its walls.

Built in 1939, the largest of 4 storehouses on the Onogi estate in Yamashina, Kyoto, and the only one roofed in round tiles, with boarded and plastered floors.

A 4-meter-square, 2-storey storehouse of 1939 at the corner of the garden behind the Onogi main house in Yamashina, Kyoto, with stepped plaster doors facing south.

This 1939 shed on the Onogi estate in Yamashina, Kyoto, doubled as a waiting bench, with namako tile and lime plaster on the faces guests saw on their way in.

Built in 1703 as the entrance to a Kyoto monzeki residence, this Edo-period yakui-mon gate now welcomes guests at Hotel The Mitsui Kyoto, opposite Nijō Castle.

Built in 1915, this wall lines the old highway before the Kataoka Residence in Fukuchiyama. A Jizo hall set into its north end makes it a rare, designed streetscape wall.

Built in 1915 by the Kataoka merchant family, this formal shoin parlor once received Fukuchiyama's elite. It now houses a duck-hotpot restaurant open to diners.

A rare three-story earthen storehouse of 1915, raised on built-up ground to guard the Kataoka family's goods from the flood-prone Yura River, now part of a restaurant.

Completed in 1934 in the light sukiya taste, this single-story parlor is a quieter counterpart to the Kataoka family's formal shoin guest hall of the Taisho years.

This 1915 storehouse, moved here in 1934, turns a decorated east face to the old highway to unify the Kataoka streetscape, now home to a duck-hotpot restaurant.

An 1876 timber lookout in Kyoto's Higashiyama Ward, built to signal fires by bell and the hour by drum. The last surviving tower of the city's bangumi schools.

A 1923 reinforced concrete telephone exchange beside the Kamo River, designed by Yoshida Tetsuro with a German vernacular exterior. It now houses a supermarket.

Completed in 1928 as Kyoto's police headquarters, this concrete block pairs a flat tiled exterior with arches and stained glass at its entrance. Registered 2024.

A timber village office of 1929 at Kuchiono in Kyotango, built after the Kita-Tango earthquake, its walls ranged with band courses. Registered in 1999.

A small bank of 1927 facing Shichijo-dori in Kyoto, with tall arched windows, stone quoins and a Lombard band along the top of the wall. Registered in 2017.

A brick pump house of 1912 beside the Lake Biwa Canal in Yamashina, built to raise firefighting water for the Kyoto Imperial Palace. Designated in 2025.

A late Edo townhouse on Kameoka's castle-town street, with projecting lattice and plastered attic windows. Registered 2025; now a cafe and information centre.

The Former Koyama Family Residence main house in Miyama is an early Meiji thatched farmhouse with an earthen work area and a formal alcove room. Registered 2008.

The 1893 storehouse of the Former Koyama Family Residence in Miyama has a tiled okiyane roof and plaster walls beside the thatched main house. Registered 2008.

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