Important cultural property

Built by Ishida Mitsunari in 1599 beside Kobo Daishi's mausoleum, the Kongobuji Temple Okunoin Sutra Repository houses a painted revolving bookcase. How to visit.

The Kongobuji Temple Kondo (1932) and Konpon Daito (1937) hide concrete frames under timber. See the 48-meter pagoda's mandala interior and how to visit both.

The Kongobuji Temple Sannoin Main Hall comprises three shrines to Koyasan's guardian deities, rebuilt in 1522 per the Agency, with oversized Kasuga-style forms.

The Kongobuji Temple Daimon Gate, rebuilt in 1705 at Mount Koya's western edge, stands 25.1 meters tall with giant Nio guardians. Free to view; see what to look for.

Two ornate spirit halls for Ieyasu and Hidetada form the Kongobuji Temple Tokugawa Family Mausoleum on Mount Koya. Dates, decoration, fees and opening hours.

At Jōmyō-ji in Arida, Wakayama, this two-storied pagoda rises 12.95 meters. Built in the mid-Kamakura period, it holds five Wisdom Buddhas and old wall paintings.

In Arida, Wakayama, Jōmyō-ji's Main Hall is a late-Kamakura, tile-roofed hall that survived the 1585 fire which razed its temple. An Important Cultural Property.

Built in 1560 and named an Important Cultural Property in 1955, this single-bay Kasuga-style hall in mountainous Aridagawa keeps carved peonies and faded polychrome.

Built in 1785 for a village headman in Aridagawa, Wakayama, the Suzuki Residence is dated by its ridge tag and its four-room plan, an Important Cultural Property.

A 1749 fishing household from Shiotsu, built in thick earthen-wall storehouse construction and relocated to the Kii Fudoki no Oka park in Wakayama City.

Two small Keicho-era sanctuaries in a shelter at Tenman Shrine, Wakayama: a kasuga-zukuri Taga hall and a nagare-zukuri hall for the Ise deities, designated 1974.

The Tenman Shrine Main Hall in Wakayama, rebuilt in 1606, has a cypress-bark hip-and-gable roof, a front gable and carved, painted kaerumata. Designated in 1916.

The Tenman Shrine Tower Gate in Wakayama, built in 1605, sets a wide Zen-style upper storey on four round pillars at the top of 50 steep steps above Wakaura Bay.

Rebuilt in 1462, the Main Hall of Tomobuchi Hachiman Shrine in Kinokawa is Wakayama's only three-bay nagare-zukuri with a front chamber and Kyoto-style carving.

The 1852 estate of the Nakasuji district headmen in Wasa, Wakayama City: six Important Cultural Property buildings, a 20-mat hall and a third-floor lookout room.

The three main halls of Niukanshofu Shrine in Kudoyama, Wakayama, kasuga-style halls of 1517 and 1541, stand within the Kii Mountain Range World Heritage site.

Built in 1578, this single-bay hall at a Kimino Town shrine in Wakayama is the youngest of five designated buildings and the only one roofed in thick shingle.

A single-bay nagare-zukuri hall of about 1572 with a cypress-bark roof, among the smallest buildings at this Wakayama shrine and designated in 1944. Free entry.

Known as the Wakamiya, this three-bay hall at a Kimino Town shrine in Wakayama carries five ridge tablets, the most in the precinct, and was designated in 1944.

Built in 1573 and spanning 5 bays by 4, this hall in Kimino Town, Wakayama, is the only ceramic-tiled roof among the five designated buildings at the shrine.