Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Kyoto

Kyoto University's Rakuyukaikan, an alumni hall of 1925 in Spanish Mission style, has a rounded porch roof on Y-shaped columns and a fine Taisho-era interior.

The Sonjodo on the Kyoto University campus, a stuccoed brick hall of 1903 with an iron porch, keeps the legacy of Yoshida Shoin gathered by Shinagawa Yajiro.

The main house of the Kinshi Masamune Horino Memorial Museum in Kyoto is a large Meiji town house with a black-plastered front and sukiya-style rooms.

The Tenmei Storehouse of the Kinshi Masamune Horino Memorial Museum in Kyoto is a sake store built before 1864, with an old-style central post under its ridge.

The document storehouse of the Kinshi Masamune Horino Memorial Museum in Kyoto is a low storehouse of 1820 behind the Momo-no-i well, dated by its ridge tag.

The Kintetsu Yodogawa Bridge in Fushimi, Kyoto is a 164.6-metre pierless steel truss built in 1928 to clear an army drill ground. Still Japan's longest simple-truss railway span, it is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property and a JSCE A-rank civil engineering heritage.

Built around 1924 in Kyoto's textile district, this wooden townhouse sits behind a high front wall and pairs refined Japanese rooms with Western-style parlors.

The Founder's Hall of Kōshō-ji, a Shin Buddhist head temple in Kyoto. Rebuilt in 1911 after the 1902 fire, this large gilded hall became a Cultural Property in 2025.

The main two-storey gate of Kōshō-ji on Kyoto's Horikawa-dōri. Built around 1915, this three-bay tower gate is known for its peony carving and was registered in 2025.

Kōshō-ji's bell tower of 1774, said to be an imperial gift, is the precinct's oldest building and the sole survivor of the 1902 fire, registered in 2025.

Built in 1918, the Takarōka is the covered corridor linking Kōshō-ji's two great halls. Its cusped-gable roof and fine joinery were registered in 2025.

North-east of Kōshō-ji's Founder's Hall stands this small Taishō-era water pavilion, finely built with a dragon-carved strut and coffered ceiling. Registered in 2025.

This late-Edo earthen wall flanks Kōshō-ji's Amida Hall gate on Horikawa-dōri. About 24m long, its plaster carries five rank stripes. Registered in 2025.

Turning south from Kōshō-ji's main gate, this early-Taishō earthen wall runs about 45m along Horikawa-dōri, the longest in the precinct. It was registered in 2025.

Five-storey concrete office building of 1927 on Kawaramachi-dori, Kyoto, with an Art Deco entrance, stone-faced ground floor and acanthus pilaster heads.

Komokuan in Minami Ward, Kyoto, was designed in 1913 by the painter Hasegawa Yoshio for his ailing brother. Glazed shoji and geometric kumiko fill it.

This abbot's quarters is a spacious six-room shoin hall rebuilt in 1936 after the 1934 fire, with screens by Kubota Kinsen, on former Aizu headquarters ground.

Fronting the abbot's quarters, this four-legged gate covers barely seven square metres yet concentrates early-Showa Kyoto carving in its copper gable and transoms.

East of the abbot's quarters, this 1936 hall carries a copper-gabled car porch. Inside, a Western board-floored reception room sits beside a shoin tatami room.

Turning at a right angle from the karamon gate, this 57-metre earthen wall frames the abbot's south garden. Its five horizontal lines mark the highest temple rank.