Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The Sato Family Residence Nagayamon Gate in Nagaokakyo is a late Edo gatehouse with a gateway, a former servants' room and a storeroom. The exterior faces the road.

The Sato Family Residence West Rice Storehouse in Nagaokakyo is an 1807 kura, the estate's oldest dated building, with pantiles north and round tiles south.

The Sato Family Residence East Rice Storehouse in Nagaokakyo is a late Edo kura built against the west rice store, with a stepped ridge, deep porch and south door.

The Sato Family Residence Roji Gate and Garden Wall in Nagaokakyo is an early Meiji gate and wall splitting the forecourt from the formal garden. Not open.

The front gate of Jisaiin, a Zen sub-temple at Tenryu-ji in Kyoto, dates to 1615-1661. A plank strut carries its ridge above a clamped tie beam. Registered in 2016.

The priests' quarters of Jisaiin, a Zen sub-temple at Tenryu-ji in Kyoto, date to 1799. A carved gable crowns the front, and bold beams rise over the earthen floor.

A late Edo corridor joins the main hall and priests' quarters of Jisaiin at Tenryu-ji, Kyoto. Its porch faces the gate; three rainbow beams span its ten-mat room.

Behind the main hall of Jisaiin, a Tenryu-ji sub-temple in Kyoto, this late Edo shoin is the sole pre-modern shoin at Tenryu-ji. Bark-edged posts add a sukiya touch.

Built in 1816 at Jisaiin, a Zen sub-temple of Tenryu-ji in Kyoto, this six-room hojo hall runs one ceiling across three front rooms. Registered in 2016 as a model.

Kyoto's 1932 alumni hall for the Prefectural Normal School — Spanish-tile parapets, arched windows, and Art Deco round windows survive intact in northern Kyoto.

A late Edo earthen storehouse in the northwest corner of a Daigo farmstead in Kyoto, linked to the house by a passage, with climbing beams and a floating tile roof.

A late Edo farmhouse at Daigo in Kyoto: a thatched hip-and-gable roof, a lower tiled wing of two reception rooms, and five rooms beside an old earth floor.

A former rice store of the 1830s to 1860s at Daigo in Kyoto, built on a trapezoid plan to fit its corner lot, with round-and-flat tiles and boarded walls.

A two-storey guest wing from the 1830s to 1860s at Daigo in Kyoto: a six-mat room over the garden, a small tearoom, and an upper room with windows on three sides.

Built in 1918 and registered in 2017, the Kannondō at Jōzenji in northern Kyoto housed the Kuramaguchi Jizō, a station on Kyoto's storied Six Jizō pilgrimage.

Standing on the summit of Higashiyama in Kyoto, Shoren-in Seiryuden was originally built in 1913 in front of Kitano Tenmangu Shrine to commemorate the enthronement of Emperor Taisho, then dismantled and reconstructed at its current site in 2014. A masterpiece of modern Japanese-style architecture combining traditional design with Western structural techniques, it was registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 2022. The hall enshrines the National Treasure Blue Acala painting, and its great wooden stage — about 4.6 times the size of Kiyomizu-dera's — offers sweeping views over the entire city of Kyoto.

Completed in 1826 at Jinko-in in northern Kyoto, this guest hall has nine rooms in three rows around a wraparound veranda, with a raised dais at the western end.

Registered in 2021 as a national Tangible Cultural Property, Jinkoin's late-Edo yakuimon gate stands at one of Kyoto's three Kobo Daishi temples in quiet Nishigamo.

Tucked behind the main hall of Jinkoin in northern Kyoto, the 1917 Chukodo blends pyramidal, hip-and-gable, and cusped-gable roofs with rare round-section rafters—a creative modern temple architecture recognized as a Registered Tangible Cultural Property.

Built in 1829 and registered in 2021, the main hall of Shinkō-in anchors one of Kyoto's three Kōbō Daishi pilgrimage temples in the quiet Nishi-Kamo district north of the city.

The complete kokuhō catalogue — browse by prefecture, period, and category.

Nationwide jūyō bunkazai — architecture, sculpture, painting, crafts, and documents.

UNESCO-inscribed cultural and natural sites across the archipelago.