Important cultural property

Tō-ji's front gate on Kujō-dōri was built in 1601 for Sanjūsangen-dō and moved here in 1895 after the old gate burned. Its story and how to view it on the axis.

A late Heian log storehouse northeast of Tō-ji's Lecture Hall, the temple's oldest dated building. It held Kūkai's treasures behind a fire moat now full of lotus.

Kyogamisaki Lighthouse in Kyotango, Kyoto, built in 1898 with a first-order lens, was the first to float its lens on mercury and is designated with a storehouse.

The former Nishijin telephone exchange in Kamigyo, Kyoto, finished in 1921, is a concrete building with Venus torsos and dancer reliefs in an Expressionist vein.

The Kyoto Orthodox Cathedral of the Annunciation, a timber church of 1903 with a cupola, a belfry and a Russian iconostasis, is the oldest of its kind in Japan.

Built in 1904 near the Kyoto Imperial Palace, this brick Renaissance hall still holds government offices, reputedly Japan's oldest such building in active use.

Myōshin-ji's oldest subtemple holds the Kaisandō, or Mishōan, a mid-Muromachi Zen-style hall moved from Tōfuku-ji in 1537 to honor its founder, Kanzan Egen.

At Gyokuhōin, Myōshin-ji's oldest sub-temple, a cypress-bark gate fronts the founder's hall. Tradition dates it to 1409, among Japan's oldest surviving karamon.

The main hall of Gyokurin-in, a sub-temple of Daitokuji in Kyoto, built in 1621, is a large eight-room abbot's hall with paintings by the Kano Tan'yu school.

Three-bay yakuimon gate of the Momoyama period at Kodaiji, Kyoto, with a gabled tile roof, from the founding years of the temple Nene built for Hideyoshi.

Founder's hall of 1605 at Kodaiji, Kyoto, once a private chapel, standing between pond gardens to the east and west that are attributed to Kobori Enshu.

Two thatched tea houses at Kodaiji, Kyoto: the single-storey, pyramid-roofed Karakasa-tei and the two-storey Shigure-tei, designated together in 1936.

Tiny Momoyama-period pavilion at Kodaiji, Kyoto, built for viewing the moon: one bay square, with cusped karahafu gables on three sides and a cypress-bark roof.

Mausoleum of 1605 at Kodaiji, Kyoto, enshrining Toyotomi Hideyoshi and his widow Nene, its altar and shrines decorated in the celebrated Momoyama Kodaiji maki-e.

Main hall of Kobaiin, a Myoshinji sub-temple in Kyoto, securely dated to 1604: a shingled hip-and-gable abbot's hall that is a well-formed example of the Zen type.

Sagara Shrine Main Hall in Kizugawa is a three-bay nagare sanctuary of the early Muromachi era, mixing Japanese, Chinese and Great Buddha details. Designated 1911.

A three-bay nagare-style sanctuary of 1494 at Saguri Shrine in Kumiyama, Kyoto, with carvings of birds, deer and squirrels among grapes, and colour renewed in 1981.

The Sawai Family Residence in Kyotanabe, Kyoto, was home to deputies of the convent Donge-in. Rebuilt in 1740-41, it and its construction papers are designated.

The octagonal, vermilion Sanshōji Aizen-dō rises beyond the Tsūten-kyō at Kyoto's Tōfuku-ji. This rare early-Muromachi hall enshrines the love-deity Aizen Myō-ō.

Built in 1502, this three-bay hall is Fukuchiyama's oldest building. An ink inscription dated it, while excavation found pits where fires burned beneath its gods.