Important Cultural Property of Kyoto

Izumo Daijingu's main hall in Kameoka, Kyoto: a three-bay nagare-zukuri sanctuary of 1346 under a cypress-bark roof, an Important Cultural Property since 1906.

The main hall of Itsuki Shrine in Ayabe, Kyoto, a one-bay nagare-style hall of the mid-Muromachi period with unusual Zen-style details, was designated in 2024.

Around the main shrine of Iwashimizu Hachimangu stand eight designated buildings: branch-shrine halls and outer gates of the 1630s, and the Toganoo hall of 1601.

The Gorinto of Iwashimizu Hachimangu, a late Kamakura stone pagoda nearly 6 metres high, is called the Seafaring Monument after a legend of a merchant saved at sea.

A 15.2-meter granite stupa raised in 1286 by the monk Eison alongside the rebuilt Uji Bridge. Japan's largest surviving pre-modern stone pagoda, standing on a small island just upstream of Byodo-in.

A late Kamakura one-bay nagare-style subsidiary shrine at Ujigami Shrine in Uji, Kyoto, designated in 1912 and now an Important Cultural Property.

Uji Shrine's main hall is a three-bay nagare-zukuri of the Kamakura period. Until 1883 it was one shrine with Ujigami uphill. A looking-back rabbit guides you here.

Built in 1914 with twenty tracks radiating from a turntable, this Kyoto roundhouse is Japan's oldest in concrete. Designated in 2004 and open to visitors.

Ridge tags date this single-bay nagare-zukuri hall in Kameoka to 1338, with rebuilding in 1459. A rare surviving village shrine of its era, designated in 1941.

In Kamigyo Ward, Kyoto, the Urasenke Residence gathers the tea rooms Konnichian, Yuin and Kanuntei into one designated structure, rebuilt after the 1788 Tenmei fire.

Built around 1646 at the top of the Sennyuji valley in Kyoto, Unryuin's main hall borrows the plan of a Zen abbot's quarters and still works as a sutra-copying room.

The tea house Furuta Oribe left the Yabunouchi family burned in 1864. A school rule sent the oldest exact copy to replace it, and that copy is the En-an seen today.

Before Enjoji's main hall in northern Kyoto stands a stone stupa carved in 1351, dated by the Southern Court calendar and signed by a monk called Gyoshu.

Carved in 1358 on a wooded slope west of Kameoka, this granite pagoda is recorded as the only medieval thirteen-storey stone tower left standing in Tanba.

To fit an oversized Amida triad under a low roof, the builders of this small hall in Ohara folded the ceiling into a curved vault, the earliest of its kind in Japan.

The Main Hall of Obai-in at Daitoku-ji, Kyoto, built in 1586 and designated in 1922, holds forty-four ink panels by Unkoku Togan and faces the Hatotei dry garden.

Built in 1419 in the hills of Nantan, this one-bay shrine hall preserves rare roof detail and the twelve carpenter's templates designated alongside it.

Dismantled in 1969 and rebuilt in Ayabe, this thatched mid-Edo farmhouse is cited as the oldest gable-entry Settan-type house, and now serves as a tea house.

Early Muromachi stone hokyointo stupa on a base at Kakushoin, the sub-temple by the gate of Daikakuji in Saga, Kyoto; the temple grounds are open to visitors.

Kajūji's shoin in Yamashina, Kyoto, an Important Cultural Property, was rebuilt from a late-17th-century imperial residence and is noted for its Kajūji-dana shelves.