Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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The north gate of the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, built in about 1933, repeats the granite-faced octagonal posts of the main gates on the north side of the site.
The north main gate of the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, built in about 1933, is a pair of granite-faced octagonal posts set 18 metres apart on the west forecourt.
The south main gate of the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, built in about 1933, pairs with the north gate to frame the facade with granite-faced octagonal posts.
The east gate of the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art is a granite gate of the late Meiji era, built for the Kyoto Commercial Exhibition Hall, with Ionic-style scrolls.
The main building of the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, built in 1933 in the Imperial Crown style, blends Japanese and Western forms and was renovated in 2019.
The south information board of the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, built in about 1933, pairs with the north board, its tiled posts carrying a gabled copper roof.
Kyoto City Hall on Oike-dori, built in 1927 and 1931, is a symmetrical concrete city hall with a central tower, still in use, its interior dressed in Asian ornament.
Kyoto University's Rakuyukaikan, an alumni hall of 1925 in Spanish Mission style, has a rounded porch roof on Y-shaped columns and a fine Taisho-era interior.
The Sonjodo on the Kyoto University campus, a stuccoed brick hall of 1903 with an iron porch, keeps the legacy of Yoshida Shoin gathered by Shinagawa Yajiro.
The main house of the Kinshi Masamune Horino Memorial Museum in Kyoto is a large Meiji town house with a black-plastered front and sukiya-style rooms.
The Tenmei Storehouse of the Kinshi Masamune Horino Memorial Museum in Kyoto is a sake store built before 1864, with an old-style central post under its ridge.
The document storehouse of the Kinshi Masamune Horino Memorial Museum in Kyoto is a low storehouse of 1820 behind the Momo-no-i well, dated by its ridge tag.
The Kintetsu Yodogawa Bridge in Fushimi, Kyoto is a 164.6-metre pierless steel truss built in 1928 to clear an army drill ground. Still Japan's longest simple-truss railway span, it is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property and a JSCE A-rank civil engineering heritage.
Built around 1924 in Kyoto's textile district, this wooden townhouse sits behind a high front wall and pairs refined Japanese rooms with Western-style parlors.
The Founder's Hall of Kōshō-ji, a Shin Buddhist head temple in Kyoto. Rebuilt in 1911 after the 1902 fire, this large gilded hall became a Cultural Property in 2025.
The main two-storey gate of Kōshō-ji on Kyoto's Horikawa-dōri. Built around 1915, this three-bay tower gate is known for its peony carving and was registered in 2025.
Kōshō-ji's bell tower of 1774, said to be an imperial gift, is the precinct's oldest building and the sole survivor of the 1902 fire, registered in 2025.
Built in 1918, the Takarōka is the covered corridor linking Kōshō-ji's two great halls. Its cusped-gable roof and fine joinery were registered in 2025.
North-east of Kōshō-ji's Founder's Hall stands this small Taishō-era water pavilion, finely built with a dragon-carved strut and coffered ceiling. Registered in 2025.
This late-Edo earthen wall flanks Kōshō-ji's Amida Hall gate on Horikawa-dōri. About 24m long, its plaster carries five rank stripes. Registered in 2025.
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