Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Kyoto

The Western-style building of Rakurakuso in Kameoka, Kyoto, a brick house of about 1898 built by Shimizu-gumi for Tanaka Gentaro, has verandas and fine fireplaces.

Rikyu Hachimangu Kotengu Shrine, a tiny east-facing shrine of about 1928 in Oyamazaki, has inokosasu gables and a bracket design shared with the worship hall.

Rikyu Hachimangu Shrine Lattice Fence, a 38-metre U-shaped fence of about 1928 in Oyamazaki, encloses the main hall with diamond lattice above solid boards.

Rikyu Hachimangu Shrine Middle Gate, a four-legged gate of about 1928 in Oyamazaki, fronts the worship hall with a bracket modeled on Tofukuji's Gekkamon.

Rikyu Hachimangu Shrine Temizusho, a purification pavilion of about 1928 in Oyamazaki, has the only tiled roof of the six registered buildings, on round posts.

Rikyu Hachimangu Shrine Worship Hall, built in 1928 in Oyamazaki, pairs a karahafu porch with stout timbers, boat-shaped brackets and a coved coffered ceiling.

Rikyu Hachimangu Shrine Main Hall, built in 1928 in Oyamazaki, is a three-bay nagare-zukuri sanctuary with three plank doors, registered for its medieval design.

Restaurant Noa Noa in Kyoto, the Western-style house of the painter Hashimoto Kansetsu of about 1929 on the Shirakawa, is Spanish in style with Japanese touches.

Restaurant Kikusui in Kyoto, built in 1926 for a pioneer of Western cuisine in the city, is a five-storey concrete building in an Expressionist style with a tower.

A late Edo yakuimon gate at Renjoji in Miyama, Kyoto, 2.3 meters wide, with a plain front of rectangular posts and large carved kaerumata braces on its sides.

A small late Edo belfry at Renjoji in Miyama, Kyoto, with inward-leaning posts tied by two tiers of beams, boarded sides and a curved beam carrying the bell.

Renjoji's Banshin Hall of 1828 in Miyama, Kyoto, sets five Shinto god shelves behind a Buddhist altar, giving form to the Nichiren cult of Thirty Guardian Deities.

Built in 1799, this thatched hip-and-gable hall at Renjoji in Miyama joins a six-room worship hall to the priest's quarters, with a memorial-tablet hall at the rear.

Wakanoyu in west Maizuru, Kyoto, a public bath of 1923, has a gabled entrance block between two bath wings and a Western-style front of tile and washed finish.

On Shinmachi-dōri south of Nishi Hongan-ji, this Meiji-era machiya pairs three lattice patterns on its façade with an inner courtyard. Registered in 2008.

Behind the Raku potters' main house in Kyoto, a tiny sukiya building pairs a 3-mat tea room with a family altar room on round-log posts. Registered 2007; private.

Discover the 2,653-piece archive at Kyoto University's Katsura Campus — a living witness to how Japan first learned to teach architecture. Curated by Takeda Goichi, the 'father of Kansai architecture,' this Registered Tangible Cultural Property includes a plaster model of Frank Lloyd Wright's Imperial Hotel, scale models of ancient temples, and the renowned Josiah Conder drawings.