Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Kyoto

A late Edo townhouse on Kameoka's castle-town street, with projecting lattice and plastered attic windows. Registered 2025; now a cafe and information centre.

An early Meiji thatched farmhouse in Miyama, Kyoto, registered in 2008. A wide earth-floored doma fills the south half, and the west zashiki holds a formal alcove.

Built in 1893 and registered in 2008, this small earthen storehouse in Miyama, Kyoto, carries an okiyane roof set free of its thick lime-plastered walls.

Discover the garden gate and fence of the Former Koyama Residence (Tamuraya Hotaru-an), a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Miyama, Kyoto. Explore the elegant Meiji-era architecture of a former village headman's estate nestled in the scenic thatched-roof countryside.

An early Meiji machiya on Takatsuji-dori in Kyoto, once a dye merchant's house. Two winding staircases by Tango carpenters survive inside. Registered in 2014.

The main house of Kyutei Omuro, a 1937 sukiya villa on Narabigaoka's slope in Kyoto. A Mount Fuji transom crowns rooms whose karin table mirrors the garden.

Soan, the freestanding tea house of Kyutei Omuro near Narabigaoka in Kyoto. This four-and-a-half-mat room opens its north wall to frame the town and the hills.

The storehouse of Kyutei Omuro stands at the northwest corner of this 1937 Kyoto villa, a plastered kura registered for how it shapes the historic scene.

West of the tea house in Kyutei Omuro's garden stands the machiai, a waiting arbor of just 4.8 m², packed with design from copper roof to round window.

A tiled wall traces the edges of Kyutei Omuro, a gabled gate set into it. The adzed door and boat-shaped brackets carry the villa's refinement to its boundary.

A 1935 Kyoto merchant house registered in 2021. It keeps the omoya-zukuri plan but gives the shopfront a Western face, with an earth floor and a corridor behind.

Registered in 2021, this 28-square-metre building of 1935 stands at the back of a Kyoto dyer's plot, with a goods store below and a staff rest room above.

The smallest of three registered buildings at Namikawa Yasuyuki's Kyoto residence, this 18 square metre kiln house kept its shuttered windows and plastered ceiling.

The single-storey workshop where Namikawa Yasuyuki's wired cloisonne was made around 1902, its two small rooms lined with shelving and now open as a museum gallery.

Built in 1893 by enameller Namikawa Yasuyuki, this Kyoto townhouse pairs a classic machiya front with tall lintels and glazed verandas made for foreign buyers.

A 1928 reinforced concrete bank in Fukuchiyama, registered in 2025. Its symmetrical front turns on a chamfered corner; today it sells Tanba azuki sweets.

Discover Kyu Fujinomori-yu, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Kyoto. Built in 1930, this former public bathhouse features a karahafu entrance, Majolica tiles, and coffered ceilings. Now reborn as Cafe Sarasa Nishijin, it offers a unique blend of Showa-era heritage and modern cafe culture.

The Former Maizuru Naval District Type-B Official Residence in Maizuru City, Kyoto Prefecture, is a traditional Japanese-style wooden house built in 1902 to the Imperial Navy's standardized specifications for senior officers. This single-story hipped-roof building features a distinctive layout separating formal reception rooms from private living quarters. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property, it offers a rare glimpse into the domestic life of naval officers at Japan's only Sea of Japan coast naval district.

Discover the Kyoto Art Center North Building, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property originally built in 1931 as part of Meirin Elementary School. Explore its Spanish-style reinforced concrete architecture, unique slope design, and vibrant art scene in the heart of Kyoto's Gion Festival district.

Completed in 1927, the Kyoto City Hall Main Building is an architectural gem that blends a Neo-Baroque framework with decorative motifs from Japanese, Chinese, Indian, and Islamic traditions. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2025, discover the history, design, and visitor highlights of this remarkable civic landmark.

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