Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Kyoto

Built in 1925 to mark Kyoto University's 25th anniversary, the Rakuyu Kaikan is a Spanish Mission–style hall designed by Morita Keiichi, a founding member of Japan's first modern architectural movement. Registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property, the building features distinctive Y-shaped porch columns and exquisite Taisho-era interior decoration by Moriya Nobuo.

Standing on the Yoshida Campus of Kyoto University, Sonno-do is a registered tangible cultural property built in 1903. This single-story brick hall traces its origins to a memorial founded by Shinagawa Yajirō, a devoted student of Yoshida Shōin, to honor loyalist warriors of the Meiji Restoration. Featuring stucco-finished walls and an iron entrance porch in a blend of Japanese and Western styles, it now serves as an archive room for archaeological artifacts from the university campus.

Standing along Sakaimachi-dori in Kyoto's Nakagyo Ward, the Main House of the Horino Memorial Museum is a grand mid-Meiji machiya on the birthplace of the Kinshi Masamune sake brewery, founded in 1781. Registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property, it features kiriko lattice screens, mushiko windows, black lacquer plaster walls, and a distinctive interior with a sukiya-style parlor on the ground floor and a formal shoin parlor upstairs.

The Tenmei Storehouse is an Edo-period two-story earthen sake warehouse standing on Sakai-machi Street in central Kyoto, within the birthplace of the renowned Kinshi Masamune sake brand founded in 1781. Featuring an archaic ridge-supporting post (munamochi-bashira) construction, it is registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property. Together with the main residence and archive storehouse, it forms a rare surviving ensemble of an urban sake brewer's compound in the heart of Kyoto.

Built in 1820 on the grounds of Kinshi Masamune's founding estate in central Kyoto, the Bunko-gura is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property of Japan. This compact, two-story earthen-walled storehouse preserves its original Edo-period form in excellent condition, standing as part of a rare surviving sake brewer's residence alongside the famed Momo no I natural spring.

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.

Discover the Kotobuki Building (壽ビルディング), a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Kyoto's Shijo Kawaramachi area. Built in 1927, this five-story reinforced concrete gem blends Art Deco elegance with early Showa-era design—now home to stylish boutiques, galleries, and a beloved children's bookshop.

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.