Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Kyoto

Behind the Araki Family Residence in northern Kyoto stands a late Edo storehouse of sixteen square metres, its roof set on posts that carry purlins without beams.

A 1936 single-storey house in Kyoto's Shishigatani, half-timbered outside and fitted with joinery from a passenger liner. Built by Konoike-gumi; registered 2004.

An 1892 thatched gate at Anrakuji in Kyoto's Shishigatani, with octagonal posts and pole rafters fanned beneath a hipped roof. The temple opens in spring and autumn.

Anrakuji's Shoin, a late-Edo hall registered in 2003, faces a clipped-azalea dry garden with the Higashiyama hills as borrowed scenery near the Philosopher's Path.

The Main Hall of Anrakuji, just east of Kyoto's Philosopher's Path, is a Late Edo-period Pure Land hall registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2003. Built to memorialize the priests Junren and Anraku, it is open only during seasonal cherry-blossom, azalea, and autumn-foliage viewings.

North of the Wakamiya-sha, at the end of a row of small halls, the Hiyoshi-sha is a late-Edo shelf shrine of just 1.6 sq m, the smallest of Imamiya's buildings.

Standing before Imamiya Shrine's Honden, the 1902 Heiden, worship area and corridors shape the space worshippers face, with a cusped gable and cloud carving.

The Honden of Imamiya Shrine in Kyoto's Murasakino was rebuilt in 1902 after a fire, standing beside the older Ekijinja hall, now a Registered Cultural Property.

This 65-metre earthen wall wraps Imamiya Shrine's Honden and Ekijinja. A gate is set in its north face, and five plaster lines mark the highest rank.

At the southeast corner of the Imamiya precinct, the Munakata-sha of about 1694 stands on a cut-stone base carved with a catfish, a tiny hall of varied joinery.

The two-story Romon on the south front of Imamiya Shrine was built in 1926, its three-stepped brackets a fine example of modern shrine-temple carpentry.

West of Imamiya Shrine's Romon, this 1926 corridor is a gabled, tile-roofed hall that borrows pre-medieval detail, with extended pillars and curving eaves.

East of Imamiya Shrine's Romon, this 1926 corridor is a gabled, tile-roofed hall whose carved gable, framed with a strut and projecting brackets, borrows old detail.

Facing the Wakamiya-sha Honden, this one-bay-square worship hall of 1694 takes the open dance-hall form on four pillars, from the Genroku restoration.

A subsidiary hall distinct from the main Honden, the Wakamiya-sha Honden of 1694 sets kasuga-style roofs side by side, joined at the ridge in a rare linked form.

A gate before the Wakamiya-sha Honden and a 26-metre openwork fence around it, both built in 1694, mark the sacred precinct with a gate and diamond lattice.

The worship hall and middle hall of Ura Shrine, the cult site of the Urashima legend in Ine, Kyoto. Built in 1884 in the warihaiden split-hall form, its facade is anchored by a cloud-and-dragon panel carved by a master of the Nakai Gonji lineage of Tanba woodcarvers. Registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 2014.

Discover Ura Shrine's Main Hall in Ine, Kyoto — a Meiji-era thatched Shinmei-style sanctuary registered as an Important Cultural Property, standing at the legendary home of Urashima Tarō, Japan's oldest folktale.

Tucked away in central Kyoto's Shimogyo Ward, Uronza is a beautifully preserved kyo-machiya townhouse built in 1897 by the Nagaoka family of master carpenters from Fukui Prefecture as their own residence. With its first-floor degoshi lattice, second-floor mushiko-mado window, and sukiya-style parlor, it stands as a fine example of the modern Kyoto machiya. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2008 and given two additional city-level designations, Uronza now operates as a small guesthouse, offering the rare experience of staying overnight in a 120-year-old officially protected building.

Standing on Shijo-dori in Kyoto's celebrated Gion district, Enma (Former Murai Bank Gion Branch) is a 1924 reinforced-concrete bank building designed by Yoshitake Choichi, the in-house architect of tobacco magnate Murai Kichibei. A Registered Tangible Cultural Property of Japan, it preserves the American-trained classical-revival aesthetics of the Taisho era, including a finely detailed parapet balustrade, and is easily seen on any walk between Yasaka Shrine and Hanamikoji.