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Important Cultural Property of Kyoto

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Kyoto’s Important Cultural Properties — designated for their value to the nation’s cultural history.

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Hokaiji Temple Main Hall (Yakushido)
Kyoto 室町中期 Important Cultural Property
Hokaiji Temple Main Hall (Yakushido)

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.

Hokanji Temple Five-Story Pagoda (Yasaka Pagoda)
Kyoto 室町中期 Important Cultural Property
Hokanji Temple Five-Story Pagoda (Yasaka Pagoda)

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.

Three-Story Pagoda at Hojuji Temple
Kyoto 桃山 Important Cultural Property
Three-Story Pagoda at Hojuji Temple

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.

Thirteen-Story Pagoda of Hosenji Temple
Kyoto 鎌倉後期 Important Cultural Property
Thirteen-Story Pagoda of Hosenji Temple

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.

Hotoji Temple Four-Legged Gate (Main Gate)
Kyoto 室町中期 Important Cultural Property
Hotoji Temple Four-Legged Gate (Main Gate)

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.

Hotoji Temple Pagoda (Tahoto)
Kyoto 室町中期 Important Cultural Property
Hotoji Temple Pagoda (Tahoto)

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.

Hotoji Temple Main Hall
Kyoto 桃山 Important Cultural Property
Hotoji Temple Main Hall

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.

Honganji Temple
Kyoto 江戸前期 Important Cultural Property
Honganji Temple

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.

Honganji Temple Entrance Hall (Nami-no-ma, Tora-no-ma and Taiko-no-ma)
Kyoto 江戸前期 Important Cultural Property
Honganji Temple Entrance Hall (Nami-no-ma, Tora-no-ma and Taiko-no-ma)

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.

Honganji Temple Noh Stage (with Attached Hashigakari)
Kyoto 桃山 Important Cultural Property
Honganji Temple Noh Stage (with Attached Hashigakari)

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.

Honganji Temple Main Hall (Kumihama, Kyotango)
Kyoto 鎌倉後期 Important Cultural Property
Honganji Temple Main Hall (Kumihama, Kyotango)

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.

Honganji Temple Bathhouse (Okakudai) and Attached Corridor
Kyoto 桃山 Important Cultural Property
Honganji Temple Bathhouse (Okakudai) and Attached Corridor

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.

Mizudo Shrine Main Hall
Kyoto 室町中期 Important Cultural Property
Mizudo Shrine Main Hall

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.

Mibu-Dera Dainenbutsudo Hall (Kyogen Stage)
Kyoto 江戸末期 Important Cultural Property
Mibu-Dera Dainenbutsudo Hall (Kyogen Stage)

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.

Miyazu Baptist Church
Kyoto 明治 Important Cultural Property
Miyazu Baptist Church

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 Temple Daishoin (Great Shoin)
Kyoto 江戸前期 Important Cultural Property
Myohoin Temple Daishoin (Great Shoin)

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 Temple Entrance Hall
Kyoto 江戸前期 Important Cultural Property
Myohoin Temple Entrance Hall

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.

Muko Shrine Main Hall
Kyoto 室町中期 Important Cultural Property
Muko Shrine Main Hall

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.

Yukinaga Family Residence Main House (Kokura, Maizuru)
Kyoto 江戸後期 Important Cultural Property
Yukinaga Family Residence Main House (Kokura, Maizuru)

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.

Yogen-in
Kyoto 江戸前期 Important Cultural Property
Yogen-in

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.