Important cultural property

Built in 1856, this two-story hall at Kyoto's Mibu-dera holds an upper stage made for the silent masked Mibu Kyogen, with a jump-in where demons vanish from sight.

A French priest's 1896 design, built by Miyazu carpenters: a wooden church with a Romanesque vault over a tatami floor. An Important Cultural Property since 2024.

Myohoin's 1619 Daishoin in Kyoto, said to be a former palace building of Empress Tofukumon-in and decorated by the Kano school. Open only for special viewings.

Myohoin's 1619 entrance hall in Kyoto, built with the Daishoin as the formal reception entrance of a princely temple and painted by the Kano school. Usually closed.

Raised in 1422 at Muko Shrine in Kyoto, this three-bay nagare-zukuri hall with a cypress-bark roof has been an Important Cultural Property since designation in 1902.

House of 1825 of the headmen of Kokura village, Maizuru, Kyoto, a fine late Edo Tango house with clay-coated rafters, bold curved beams and a bamboo ceiling.

Founded in 1594 and rebuilt in 1621, Yogen-in keeps Fushimi Castle floorboards overhead and Sotatsu's painted cedar doors. Four of its buildings were listed in 2016.

Octagonal thatched sanctuary of 1601 at Yoshida Shrine, Kyoto, the root hall of Yoshida Shinto founded here by Yoshida Kanetomo in 1484 for all the gods.

The Yoshiminedera Temple Tahoto Pagoda in western Kyoto, dated 1621 by its ridge tag, is a small, slender, graceful pagoda with a bark roof. Designated in 1977.

Worship hall of 1607 at Yodo Shrine in Fushimi, Kyoto, a former dance pavilion rebuilt by Hideyori, moved in 1900 and spared when the sanctuary burned.

Early Kamakura stone pagoda at Raigoin in Ohara, Kyoto, venerated as the grave of Ryonin, who founded the temple as the centre of Tendai shomyo chant.

Described by the national register as the oldest surviving hojo hall, built early in the sixteenth century and listed in 1961. Four dry gardens ring it.

Ryoanji's Main Hall is a 1606 hojo, an Important Cultural Property moved here after fire. From its veranda you view the famous fifteen-stone dry rock garden.

Ryōgin-an's front gate at Tōfuku-ji, Kyoto: a small Momoyama-period Important Cultural Property fronting the 1387 hōjō, Japan's oldest surviving abbot's quarters.

The kitchen of Ryogin-an at Tofuku-ji, Kyoto, raised in 1603 and now an Important Cultural Property. A rare Zen temple kitchen surviving close to its original form.

The Momoyama mausoleum of Kuroda Josui and his wife at Ryokoin, Daitokuji, Kyoto, an Important Cultural Property since 2016, finely built.

The reception hall of Reiunin, a sub-temple of Myoshinji in Kyoto, dates from the late Muromachi period (1467–1572), a small shingled hall with a corridor.

A Momoyama rammed-earth wall on the south side of Sanjusangendo in Kyoto, built with the South Gate to bound Hideyoshi's temple complex. Designated in 1937.

An eight-legged gate of 1600 marking the southern edge of Sanjusangendo in Kyoto, built when Hideyoshi folded the hall into his Great Buddha complex. Listed 1900.

The main hall of Rokuharamitsuji in Higashiyama, Kyoto, built in 1363, is a broad hipped-roof hall of seven by six bays, among the first buildings designated.