Important cultural property
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Gekkamon, a four-legged gate roofed in cypress bark and listed in 1902, stands closed on the northern approach at Tofukuji in Kyoto, free to view from outside.
The former Bank of Japan Kyoto Branch on Sanjo-dori, a brick building of 1906 by Tatsuno Kingo and Nagano Uheiji, is now the annex of the Museum of Kyoto.
The Important Cultural Property Ninnaji Temple covers 14 buildings, from the Nio-mon Gate and pagoda to two teahouses, designated 1900 to 1973. Structure, viewing.
An early Edo shoin at Fushimi Inari Taisha, said to have been granted by a retired emperor in 1641 and moved from the palace. Listed in 1927 and normally closed.
Nio Gate of 1350 at Bujoji in Hanase, Kyoto: an eight-pillared gate with a hip-and-gable shingle roof, where the mountain path to the main hall begins.
Main hall and water pavilion of around 1345 to 1349 at Bujoji in Hanase, Kyoto: a hall built out over a cliff, called the oldest stage-style building in Japan.
The Former Butokuden in Kyoto, a vast timber martial arts hall of 1899 that the city calls the oldest in Japan, is still used as part of the Kyoto City Budo Center.
The Yakushido of Hokaiji in Hino, Kyoto, is a hipped-roof hall of 1456 moved from Nara in 1904, where the Healing Buddha is worshipped for safe childbirth.
The Yasaka Pagoda of Hokanji in Higashiyama, Kyoto, is a five-storey pagoda of 1440 that rises above the sloping Yasaka-dori in one of the city's classic views.
Hoshakuji's three-storied pagoda stands on Mt. Tennozan near Kyoto. Dated to 1604 and about 20 meters tall, it is the one-night pagoda tied to Hideyoshi's victory.
A granite thirteen-story pagoda at Hōsen-ji in Kyotanabe, Kyoto, dated 1278 by its inscription and signed by a mason of the Song-Chinese stone-carving lineage.
The four-legged main gate of Hotoji in Fukakusa, Kyoto, a gabled Muromachi gate at a Nichiren temple holding the grave of Nichizo, was designated in 1906.
The tahoto pagoda of Hotoji in Fukakusa, Kyoto, a three-bay pagoda built in 1438 at a Nichiren temple holding the grave of Nichizo, was designated in 1906.
The main hall of Hotoji in Fukakusa, Kyoto, built in 1608 at a Nichiren temple holding the grave of Nichizo, is a large hall with an open outer hall and tall posts.
The gates and buildings along the street front of Nishi Honganji, Kyoto, Important Cultural Properties, including the great gates and a sutra repository of 1677.
An early Edo building at Nishi Honganji in Kyoto, designated in 1904: an entrance and three rooms, Nami, Tora and Taiko, recorded as one building with a bark roof.
Nishi Honganji's South Noh Stage in Kyoto, Momoyama period, designated 1910: a gabled bark-roofed stage watched from the Taimensho, with Noh performed each May 21.
A late Kamakura main hall at Honganji, a Jodo temple in Kumihama, Kyotango, designated 1904: Tango's only medieval Buddhist hall, under a gentle cypress-bark roof.
A Momoyama bathhouse at Nishi Honganji, Kyoto, designated 1908: the raised Okakudai, joined to Hiunkaku by a corridor, with a gabled steam bath and iron cauldron.
Dated to 1448, the main hall of Mito Shrine in Jōyō, Kyoto is the city's oldest surviving building, a single-bay nagare-zukuri hall roofed in cypress bark.