Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Built around 1919 as part of a Tokyo villa and moved to Mount Hiei in 1928, Takeda Goichi's shoin-style guesthouse is usually closed but opens for temple events.

A 2.3-metre hira-karamon in the wall behind the Daishoin, built around 1919 in Tokyo and moved to Mount Hiei in 1928 with the house. Note its flower-lattice transom.

Omi Shrine Kagura Hall of 1944 covers 162 square metres, with a gabled carriage porch on one corner and a curved gable facing the corridor. It is still in use.

Omi Shrine Kagura Hall Corridor wraps the hall on three sides across 64 square metres, each arm framed differently so the roofs open towards the inner court.

Omi Shrine North Gate opens the northern outer precinct, its round main posts tied to squared stays by curved beams under a gabled copper roof of 1944.

Omi Shrine Back Gate stands 2.7 metres wide behind the sanctuary. Latticed doors merge it into the fence; only its raised, curved roof marks it as a gate.

Omi Shrine Saikan is the only building here set off the precinct's axis, turned some 30 degrees, with an eight-mat room and a ten-mat shoin room inside.

Omi Shrine Saikan Entrance is a back door with a composed front: four tall panelled doors under a finely barred transom, tiled, covering 27 square metres.

Omi Shrine Assembly Hall of 1944 runs north from a bluff beside the Kagura Hall, its four ten-mat rooms opened into a single space behind a run of bay windows.

Built in 1944 at Omi Jingu in Otsu, this 101-square-metre entrance block sets a dormer gable over its carriage porch. Registered in 1998; exterior viewable.

This twelve-square-metre covered stair at Omi Jingu, built in 1944, is the only corridor there given a fire door and a tile-capped fire wall. Registered 1998.

A 1944 rest house at Omi Jingu in Otsu, framed with round posts and bracket arms under a tiled roof. Now a sweets shop, it is the one visitors may enter.

The 1890 carriage porch of the Otsu courthouse, moved to Omi Jingu in 1971 to shelter car purification rites. Its gable pendant still bears a chrysanthemum crest.

The east and south wings of the 1940 shrine office at Omi Jingu in Otsu, 246 square metres. A curved gable marks the guest entrance, a lower ridge the everyday door.

The tiled north and west wings of the 1940 shrine office at Omi Jingu in Otsu, 175 square metres. A dormer gable on the west face vents steam from the bath below.

A 1944 watch house of 39 square metres at Omi Jingu, made by closing one bay of the outer colonnade. Small gable-end eaves separate it from its twin across the gate.

The smallest registered building at Omi Jingu: an eight-square-metre raised-floor storehouse of 1940, roofed in cypress bark like the sanctuary it stands behind.

The 1940 hall at Omi Jingu in Otsu where food offerings are prepared, 53 square metres, with entrances north and south so the work can flow in one direction.

A nine-square-metre covered stair of 1944 at Omi Jingu in Otsu, gabled where it meets buildings and single-sloped over the steps between them. Registered in 1998.

The 1944 amulet office at Omi Jingu in Otsu, 39 square metres, attached to the tower gate. Square and round posts are used by position, with boat brackets above.

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