Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Kyoto

Built in 1915 by the Kataoka merchant family, this formal shoin parlor once received Fukuchiyama's elite. It now houses a duck-hotpot restaurant open to diners.

A rare three-story earthen storehouse of 1915, raised on built-up ground to guard the Kataoka family's goods from the flood-prone Yura River, now part of a restaurant.

Completed in 1934 in the light sukiya taste, this single-story parlor is a quieter counterpart to the Kataoka family's formal shoin guest hall of the Taisho years.

This 1915 storehouse, moved here in 1934, turns a decorated east face to the old highway to unify the Kataoka streetscape, now home to a duck-hotpot restaurant.

An 1876 timber lookout in Kyoto's Higashiyama Ward, built to signal fires by bell and the hour by drum. The last surviving tower of the city's bangumi schools.

A 1923 reinforced concrete telephone exchange beside the Kamo River, designed by Yoshida Tetsuro with a German vernacular exterior. It now houses a supermarket.

Completed in 1928 as Kyoto's police headquarters, this concrete block pairs a flat tiled exterior with arches and stained glass at its entrance. Registered 2024.

A timber village office of 1929 at Kuchiono in Kyotango, built after the Kita-Tango earthquake, its walls ranged with band courses. Registered in 1999.

A small bank of 1927 facing Shichijo-dori in Kyoto, with tall arched windows, stone quoins and a Lombard band along the top of the wall. Registered in 2017.

A brick pump house of 1912 beside the Lake Biwa Canal in Yamashina, built to raise firefighting water for the Kyoto Imperial Palace. Designated in 2025.

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.

The Former Koyama Family Residence main house in Miyama is an early Meiji thatched farmhouse with an earthen work area and a formal alcove room. Registered 2008.

The 1893 storehouse of the Former Koyama Family Residence in Miyama has a tiled okiyane roof and plaster walls beside the thatched main house. Registered 2008.

The garden gate and cedar-bark fence of the Former Koyama Family Residence in Miyama enclose the garden before the main reception room. Registered in 2008.

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.

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