Important cultural property

Shūon'an, or Ikkyū-ji, is where the witty Zen monk Ikkyū spent his last years and lies buried behind a locked imperial gate, amid historic halls and gardens.

This stone pagoda of thirteen storeys in a Kamo cemetery in Kizugawa, dated 1298, is a late Kamakura monument protected since 1937 as an Important Cultural Property.

The main hall of Juhachi Shrine in Uji, Kyoto, built in 1487, is a three-bay nagare-style hall roofed in wood shingles, designated with its ridge tags.

The main hall of Shodenji in northern Kyoto, a Momoyama-period building from Fushimi Castle, keeps a blood ceiling said to come from the castle siege of 1600.

The Yorinan Shoin at Jodoin, a sub-temple of Byodoin in Uji, is a Momoyama-period (1573–1614) hall said to reuse Fushimi Castle timber; it is not open to visitors.

Momoyama-period hall at Jingoji in Takao, Kyoto, with a shingled hip-and-gable roof, enshrining a relief figure of Kobo Daishi shown each year from November 1 to 7.

Priests' quarters of 1609 at Shinjuan in Daitokuji, Kyoto, a gable-entry shingled building in the only intact abbot's hall and kuri layout of Daitokuji.

Early Edo pavilion at Shinjuan in Daitokuji, Kyoto, said to be an imperial consort's dressing pavilion, shingle-roofed and including the Teigyokuken tea room.

Abbot's hall of 1638 at Shinjuan, a Daitokuji sub-temple in Kyoto, with a statue of Ikkyu and door paintings attributed to Soga Dasoku, facing a dry garden.

The Main Hall of Shinshō-gokuraku-ji — better known as Shinnyo-dō — is the largest Tendai-school main hall in Kyoto. Built in 1717 from solid zelkova, it shelters the secret 'Nodding Amida' image, opened once a year on November 15.

Built in 1406, the main hall of Shindō-ji in southern Kyoto is an Important Cultural Property and the heart of a Shugendō mountain temple, housing a 2.7-meter Zaō Gongen image carved in the Muromachi period.

Zuihō-in's gate at Daitoku-ji, raised 1536-1555 for Christian daimyo Ōtomo Sōrin's Zen temple. A rare late-Muromachi munemon with original cypress-bark roof.

The main hall of Zuihō-in, a sub-temple of Kyoto's Daitoku-ji, was built between 1536 and 1555 by the Christian daimyō Ōtomo Sōrin's order. Designated an Important Cultural Property in 1962, it is one of the finest surviving examples of late-Muromachi hōjō architecture in Kyoto.

The late Edo main house of the Sumiya ageya in Shimabara, Kyoto, an Important Cultural Property since 1952, with its tea room, pavilion, storehouses and garden.

Seifuso in Kyoto, built by the Sumitomo family for Saionji Kinmochi, keeps twelve sukiya buildings around its 1912 main house. Important Cultural Property, 2012.

A large, richly carved Momoyama four-legged gate crowning Sennyū-ji. Designated an Important Cultural Property in 1966, it opens onto a downhill path to the Buddha Hall.

Reached by a rare downhill approach, this 1669 Zen-style Buddha Hall holds three Buddhas of past, present, and future beneath a coiling dragon by Kanō Tan'yū.

One of a pair of seamless stone stupas, or muhōtō, standing north of the Founder's Hall at Sennyū-ji. Both date to the early Muromachi period and were designated in 1955.

Momoyama-period audience hall at Daikakuji, the Saga Palace temple in Kyoto: a hip-and-gable cypress-bark building, seven bays at the front, designated in 1912.

Shinden of 1619 at Daikakuji in Saga, Kyoto, the residence of Empress Tofukumon-in given by Emperor Go-Mizunoo, with peony and plum paintings by Kano Sanraku.