Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Kyoto

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.

Bathhouse of 1930 on Kuramaguchi-dori in Kyoto, with a karahafu entrance and decorative tiles inside and out, now the café Sarasa Nishijin, its old layout intact.

Navy residence of 1902 in Maizuru, Kyoto, a senior Class B house built to standard naval specifications, with guest rooms and living quarters clearly divided.

North building of the Kyoto Art Center, the 1931 north wing of Meirin school, with ramps in a quarter-round tower and window canopies; now studios and a gallery.

Main gate and wall of 1931 at the Kyoto Art Center on Muromachi-dori: Secession-style octagonal piers with domed tops, matched by the side gates and wall posts.

West building of the Kyoto Art Center, the 1931 main block of Meirin school, with Spanish tiles, a balcony, a coffered 78-mat great hall and the old auditorium.

South building of the Kyoto Art Center, the 1931 south wing of Meirin school, with an arched entrance, a tower, three round windows and a fourth-floor tea room.

The north information board of the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, built in about 1933, has posts tiled like the main building under a small gabled copper roof.

The north gate of the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, built in about 1933, repeats the granite-faced octagonal posts of the main gates on the north side of the site.

The north main gate of the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, built in about 1933, is a pair of granite-faced octagonal posts set 18 metres apart on the west forecourt.

The south main gate of the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, built in about 1933, pairs with the north gate to frame the facade with granite-faced octagonal posts.

The east gate of the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art is a granite gate of the late Meiji era, built for the Kyoto Commercial Exhibition Hall, with Ionic-style scrolls.

The main building of the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, built in 1933 in the Imperial Crown style, blends Japanese and Western forms and was renovated in 2019.

The south information board of the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, built in about 1933, pairs with the north board, its tiled posts carrying a gabled copper roof.

Kyoto City Hall on Oike-dori, built in 1927 and 1931, is a symmetrical concrete city hall with a central tower, still in use, its interior dressed in Asian ornament.

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