Important cultural property
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The founder's hall at the summit of upper Daigoji, Kyoto, rebuilt by Toyotomi Hideyori and an Important Cultural Property since 1954, the largest hall on the mountain.
The main hall of the Seiryugu shrine in lower Daigoji, Kyoto, rebuilt in 1517 and an Important Cultural Property since 1954, home of the temple's guardian deity.
The Nyoirindo at the summit of upper Daigoji, Kyoto, built in 1606 and an Important Cultural Property since 1954, successor to one of the temple's first halls.
The shoin of Daisenin at Daitokuji, Kyoto, rebuilt by Takuan in 1614 and an Important Cultural Property since 1962, simple in design and linked with Miyamoto Musashi.
Built in 1602 with an attached entrance and ridge tablet, this compact abbot's hall at Myoshinji opens its interior only on the booked special viewing.
Near Kyoto's Nanzen-ji, this Meiji villa pairs a famed Ueji garden, fed by the Lake Biwa Canal, with a sukiya house named an Important Cultural Property in 2024.
Town house of 1760 on the Kurama Kaido, Kyoto, said to be a charcoal merchant's, with a cedar-bark pent roof; the city's oldest known through-passage town house.
Kamakura-period mikoshi store at Sakatoke Shrine on Mount Tenno, Oyamazaki, Kyoto: a tiled store of stacked squared timbers at Otokuni's oldest shrine.
Discover Chion-in, the grand head temple of Jodo (Pure Land) Buddhism in Kyoto. Explore Japan's largest wooden gate (National Treasure), the majestic Miei-do Hall, the legendary Seven Wonders, and the iconic 70-ton bell. A must-visit spiritual landmark in Higashiyama.
The 1641 Karamon gate of Chion-in, Kyoto, an Important Cultural Property since 1910, carved with legendary figures riding a carp and a crane.
The 1621 sutra repository of Chion-in, Kyoto, an Important Cultural Property since 1900, housing a revolving case with 6,000 volumes of the Song canon.
The Seishido hall of Chion-in, Kyoto, rebuilt in 1530 on the site of Honen's hermitage and an Important Cultural Property since 1899, the temple's oldest building.
The 1678 bell tower of Chion-in, Kyoto, an Important Cultural Property since 1997, housing a 70-tonne bell rung by seventeen people on New Year's Eve.
Cut with a date corresponding to 1334, this granite stone pagoda gives scholars a fixed point for dating medieval stonework in Japan. Its temple stays closed.
Four brick structures of 1895 at the Kyoto National Museum, designed by Katayama Tokuma and listed in 1969. The main hall is closed, but the gate and walls remain.
The main hall of Tenkyuin, a sub-temple of Myoshinji in Kyoto, dates from the Kan'ei era (1624–1643) and is designated with its entrance hall and an old ridge tile.
The stone pagoda of Tenjin Shrine in Kizugawa, Kyoto, raised in 1277 in the mid-Kamakura period, is among the oldest thirteen-storey pagodas with a known date.
The main hall of the Tenmangu shrine in Wazuka, Kyoto Prefecture, built in 1348, is a small one-bay nagare-style hall roofed in cypress bark, from the 14th century.
Built in 1628 at Konchi-in, this is called Kyoto's only surviving gongen-zukuri shrine. A dragon attributed to Kano Tanyu covers the worship hall ceiling.
Built in 1603 and listed in 1967, Engetsukyo is a roofed timber bridge on five piers, eleven bays long, crossing the Sengyokukan ravine at Tofukuji in Kyoto.