Important Cultural Property of Kyoto

Five-ring stone pagoda of the late Kamakura period at Gansenji in Kizugawa, Kyoto, over 2 metres tall, a Yamato-style example said to be a Todaiji official's grave.

Three-storey pagoda of 1442 at Gansenji in Kizugawa, Kyoto, about 18 metres tall, dated by an inscription found in 1943; the ground floor opens seasonally.

Granite thirteen-storey pagoda of the late Kamakura period at Gansenji in Kizugawa, Kyoto, 5.5 metres tall, carved with Sanskrit syllables of the four Buddhas.

Granite niche shrine of 1312 at Gansenji in Kizugawa, Kyoto: two posts carry a single-stone hipped roof over a low-relief Fudo Myoo and a dated inscription.

This square, thatched, hipped Kannon hall at Shimo-Awano in Kyōtamba was raised before 1539. Ridge tablets fix its date; it is an Important Cultural Property.

Ito Chuta's 1911 insurance office by Nishi Honganji, Kyoto, now the Hongwanji Dendoin: English brick with an Indian dome, hexagonal tower and Chinese balustrades.

Tō-ji's 17th-century initiation hall and its two Kamakura gates. Site of the January Goshichinichi Mishiho rite; the North Gate opens only on April 21 each year.

A Kamakura-period four-legged gate on Hachijo-dori marking Tō-ji's northern edge and opening onto Kushige-koji, a lane that keeps its Heian-period width.

A Momoyama-period eight-legged gate from around 1601 closing the north end of Tō-ji's main axis, between the great halls and the quiet sub-temple quarter.

An early Kamakura eight-legged gate on Omiya-dori at Tō-ji's northeast corner, where five Fushimi Inari portable shrines are welcomed every year on May 3.

Rebuilt in 1491, five years after a fire, this hall at Tō-ji's center houses Kukai's 21-statue mandala. Layout guide, hours, fees and 2026 special viewing.

A 1.6-meter wooden pagoda donated to Tō-ji in 1240 by Senyomon-in and found in the Founder's Hall in 1955. Its details, dating and when it may be on view.

Tō-ji's east gate, the Akazu-mon, recalls Ashikaga Takauji shutting it in battle. Dated 1605 by the state, it is said to bear arrow marks. The sources compared.

Tō-ji's front gate on Kujō-dōri was built in 1601 for Sanjūsangen-dō and moved here in 1895 after the old gate burned. Its story and how to view it on the axis.

A late Heian log storehouse northeast of Tō-ji's Lecture Hall, the temple's oldest dated building. It held Kūkai's treasures behind a fire moat now full of lotus.

Kyogamisaki Lighthouse in Kyotango, Kyoto, built in 1898 with a first-order lens, was the first to float its lens on mercury and is designated with a storehouse.

The former Nishijin telephone exchange in Kamigyo, Kyoto, finished in 1921, is a concrete building with Venus torsos and dancer reliefs in an Expressionist vein.

The Kyoto Orthodox Cathedral of the Annunciation, a timber church of 1903 with a cupola, a belfry and a Russian iconostasis, is the oldest of its kind in Japan.

Built in 1904 near the Kyoto Imperial Palace, this brick Renaissance hall still holds government offices, reputedly Japan's oldest such building in active use.

Myōshin-ji's oldest subtemple holds the Kaisandō, or Mishōan, a mid-Muromachi Zen-style hall moved from Tōfuku-ji in 1537 to honor its founder, Kanzan Egen.