Important Cultural Property of Kyoto

The Yakushido of Hokaiji in Hino, Kyoto, is a hipped-roof hall of 1456 moved from Nara in 1904, where the Healing Buddha is worshipped for safe childbirth.

The Yasaka Pagoda of Hokanji in Higashiyama, Kyoto, is a five-storey pagoda of 1440 that rises above the sloping Yasaka-dori in one of the city's classic views.

Hoshakuji's three-storied pagoda stands on Mt. Tennozan near Kyoto. Dated to 1604 and about 20 meters tall, it is the one-night pagoda tied to Hideyoshi's victory.

A granite thirteen-story pagoda at Hōsen-ji in Kyotanabe, Kyoto, dated 1278 by its inscription and signed by a mason of the Song-Chinese stone-carving lineage.

The four-legged main gate of Hotoji in Fukakusa, Kyoto, a gabled Muromachi gate at a Nichiren temple holding the grave of Nichizo, was designated in 1906.

The tahoto pagoda of Hotoji in Fukakusa, Kyoto, a three-bay pagoda built in 1438 at a Nichiren temple holding the grave of Nichizo, was designated in 1906.

The main hall of Hotoji in Fukakusa, Kyoto, built in 1608 at a Nichiren temple holding the grave of Nichizo, is a large hall with an open outer hall and tall posts.

The gates and buildings along the street front of Nishi Honganji, Kyoto, Important Cultural Properties, including the great gates and a sutra repository of 1677.

An early Edo building at Nishi Honganji in Kyoto, designated in 1904: an entrance and three rooms, Nami, Tora and Taiko, recorded as one building with a bark roof.

Nishi Honganji's South Noh Stage in Kyoto, Momoyama period, designated 1910: a gabled bark-roofed stage watched from the Taimensho, with Noh performed each May 21.

A late Kamakura main hall at Honganji, a Jodo temple in Kumihama, Kyotango, designated 1904: Tango's only medieval Buddhist hall, under a gentle cypress-bark roof.

A Momoyama bathhouse at Nishi Honganji, Kyoto, designated 1908: the raised Okakudai, joined to Hiunkaku by a corridor, with a gabled steam bath and iron cauldron.

Dated to 1448, the main hall of Mito Shrine in Jōyō, Kyoto is the city's oldest surviving building, a single-bay nagare-zukuri hall roofed in cypress bark.

Built in 1856, this two-story hall at Kyoto's Mibu-dera holds an upper stage made for the silent masked Mibu Kyogen, with a jump-in where demons vanish from sight.

A French priest's 1896 design, built by Miyazu carpenters: a wooden church with a Romanesque vault over a tatami floor. An Important Cultural Property since 2024.

Myohoin's 1619 Daishoin in Kyoto, said to be a former palace building of Empress Tofukumon-in and decorated by the Kano school. Open only for special viewings.

Myohoin's 1619 entrance hall in Kyoto, built with the Daishoin as the formal reception entrance of a princely temple and painted by the Kano school. Usually closed.

Raised in 1422 at Muko Shrine in Kyoto, this three-bay nagare-zukuri hall with a cypress-bark roof has been an Important Cultural Property since designation in 1902.

House of 1825 of the headmen of Kokura village, Maizuru, Kyoto, a fine late Edo Tango house with clay-coated rafters, bold curved beams and a bamboo ceiling.

Founded in 1594 and rebuilt in 1621, Yogen-in keeps Fushimi Castle floorboards overhead and Sotatsu's painted cedar doors. Four of its buildings were listed in 2016.

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