Important Cultural Property of Kyoto

Early Edo pavilion at Shinjuan in Daitokuji, Kyoto, said to be an imperial consort's dressing pavilion, shingle-roofed and including the Teigyokuken tea room.

Abbot's hall of 1638 at Shinjuan, a Daitokuji sub-temple in Kyoto, with a statue of Ikkyu and door paintings attributed to Soga Dasoku, facing a dry garden.

The Main Hall of Shinshō-gokuraku-ji — better known as Shinnyo-dō — is the largest Tendai-school main hall in Kyoto. Built in 1717 from solid zelkova, it shelters the secret 'Nodding Amida' image, opened once a year on November 15.

Built in 1406, the main hall of Shindō-ji in southern Kyoto is an Important Cultural Property and the heart of a Shugendō mountain temple, housing a 2.7-meter Zaō Gongen image carved in the Muromachi period.

Zuihō-in's gate at Daitoku-ji, raised 1536-1555 for Christian daimyo Ōtomo Sōrin's Zen temple. A rare late-Muromachi munemon with original cypress-bark roof.

The main hall of Zuihō-in, a sub-temple of Kyoto's Daitoku-ji, was built between 1536 and 1555 by the Christian daimyō Ōtomo Sōrin's order. Designated an Important Cultural Property in 1962, it is one of the finest surviving examples of late-Muromachi hōjō architecture in Kyoto.

The late Edo main house of the Sumiya ageya in Shimabara, Kyoto, an Important Cultural Property since 1952, with its tea room, pavilion, storehouses and garden.

Seifuso in Kyoto, built by the Sumitomo family for Saionji Kinmochi, keeps twelve sukiya buildings around its 1912 main house. Important Cultural Property, 2012.

A large, richly carved Momoyama four-legged gate crowning Sennyū-ji. Designated an Important Cultural Property in 1966, it opens onto a downhill path to the Buddha Hall.

Reached by a rare downhill approach, this 1669 Zen-style Buddha Hall holds three Buddhas of past, present, and future beneath a coiling dragon by Kanō Tan'yū.

One of a pair of seamless stone stupas, or muhōtō, standing north of the Founder's Hall at Sennyū-ji. Both date to the early Muromachi period and were designated in 1955.

Momoyama-period audience hall at Daikakuji, the Saga Palace temple in Kyoto: a hip-and-gable cypress-bark building, seven bays at the front, designated in 1912.

Shinden of 1619 at Daikakuji in Saga, Kyoto, the residence of Empress Tofukumon-in given by Emperor Go-Mizunoo, with peony and plum paintings by Kano Sanraku.

The founder's hall at the summit of upper Daigoji, Kyoto, rebuilt by Toyotomi Hideyori and an Important Cultural Property since 1954, the largest hall on the mountain.

The main hall of the Seiryugu shrine in lower Daigoji, Kyoto, rebuilt in 1517 and an Important Cultural Property since 1954, home of the temple's guardian deity.

The Nyoirindo at the summit of upper Daigoji, Kyoto, built in 1606 and an Important Cultural Property since 1954, successor to one of the temple's first halls.

The shoin of Daisenin at Daitokuji, Kyoto, rebuilt by Takuan in 1614 and an Important Cultural Property since 1962, simple in design and linked with Miyamoto Musashi.

Built in 1602 with an attached entrance and ridge tablet, this compact abbot's hall at Myoshinji opens its interior only on the booked special viewing.

Near Kyoto's Nanzen-ji, this Meiji villa pairs a famed Ueji garden, fed by the Lake Biwa Canal, with a sukiya house named an Important Cultural Property in 2024.

Town house of 1760 on the Kurama Kaido, Kyoto, said to be a charcoal merchant's, with a cedar-bark pent roof; the city's oldest known through-passage town house.