Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Kyoto

In Muko City, Kyoto, an early Meiji annex and the inner gate continuing from its eave divide the Nakakoji estate's formal front from its private corner. Listed 2008.

The Main House of the Nakano Family Residence in Nagaokakyo, Kyoto, is a late Edo dwelling registered in 2010. It now serves meals and coffee as Nakanotei.

The Tea House of the Nakano Family Residence in Nagaokakyo, Kyoto, built in 1951, is a four-and-a-half-mat room named Koan with a lit four-panel woven ceiling.

The Storehouse of the Nakano Family Residence in Nagaokakyo, Kyoto, is a late Edo earthen-walled dozo of just 25 square metres, registered nationally in 2010.

A 1917 earthen-walled storehouse in Yawata, Kyoto, registered in 2012 for the riverbank view it completes. Drip tiles and clay doors reward a look from Ankobashi.

The early Showa gate of a Yawata villa is just 2.1 metres wide, yet packs a bowed roof, adze-finished posts and a slatted transom into it. Registered in 2012.

Built around 1917 for an Osaka theatre owner, this Yawata reception hall pairs a coved coffered ceiling with a raised dais. Registered 2012; now a rental stay.

The Kyoto home of the Nakamura family, lacquerers to the Sen tea schools, dates from 1854 and was built by a sukiya master carpenter. Registered 2003; closed.

A late Meiji merchant house on Muromachi-dori in Kyoto, built in omoya-zukuri with a courtyard dividing shop from home. Registered in 2007; still a private home.

This 23-square-metre Kyoto storehouse turns the long side of its gabled roof to the street, white lime plaster over a red-brown boarded base. Registered in 2007.

Brick office building of 1906 in Kyoto, built for the Kyoto Flannel Company and later Nissha Printing's head office, with a mansard roof and Corinthian porch.

Anglican church of 1930 by Bergamini in Nakagyo, Kyoto: a half-timbered Japanese-style building with a kindergarten below and a chapel under curved trusses above.

Ninnaji Temple Grand Entrance, rebuilt in 1890 after the 1887 fire, pairs a tiled hall with a carved cypress-bark carriage porch. Features, access and goshuin.

Ninnaji Temple Black Study Hall, a relocated abbot's hall remodeled around 1910, with slatted mairado doors and 1937 panels by Domoto Insho. Plan and visiting.

Ninnaji Temple Imperial Family Gate, a slender 1914 gate between the forecourt and South Garden, with open rafters and a pierced transom. Design and how to see it.

Ninnaji Temple White Study Hall served as a temporary Shinden from 1890. Six rooms, bamboo-node transoms, Fukunaga Seihan pines, 2026 restoration and visiting tips.

Ninnaji Temple Shinden, rebuilt in 1914 after an 1887 fire, pairs a palace-style exterior with shoin rooms painted by Hara Zaisen. Design, gardens and visiting tips.

Ninnaji Temple Imperial Envoy Gate, a Taisho-era gate by Kameoka Suekichi modeled on the Hongwanji Karamon, is covered in phoenix and vine openwork. How to view it.

Ninnaji Temple Treasure Museum, a 1927 concrete building whose walls copy an azekura storehouse, opens three times a year. Its design, door guardians and visits.

Ninnaji Temple Reimeiden Hall, a 1911 pyramidal-roofed hall by Kameoka Suekichi, houses a hidden Yakushi statue and abbots' tablets. Design, details and visiting.