Important Cultural Property of Nara

The Horyuji Temple Chuin Main Hall, built in 1434 in a sub-temple, is a small square hall entered from the gable under a porch, designated with its altar platform.

The Horyuji Temple Tsumamuro Dormitory, about 1121, is a long, narrow lesser dormitory of 27 bays beside the East Dormitory, showing how monks' quarters were ranked.

The Horyuji Temple Eastern Precinct Earthen Walls, built in 1696, are three tile-capped wall sections, about 211 m in all, linking older gates around the precinct.

The Horyuji Temple Eastern Precinct Corridors, built in 1237, enclose the octagonal Yumedono in two sections, part of the early Kamakura reshaping of the precinct.

The Horyuji Temple Eastern Precinct Four-Legged Gate, early Kamakura, opens in the west wall of the Eastern Precinct. How a four-legged gate works and what to see.

The Horyuji Temple Eastern Precinct Shariden and Edono, built in 1219, joins a relic hall and a picture hall under one roof. Its relic legend and New Year rite.

The Horyuji Temple Eastern Precinct South Gate (Fumeimon), built in 1459, is a three-bay eight-legged gate in the south wall. Its rank, date and what to look for.

The Horyuji Temple Eastern Precinct Raido Hall, built in 1231, is a worship hall facing the octagonal Yumedono. What a raido is for and how to read it on site.

The Horyuji Temple Yakushibo Priests' Quarters, late Muromachi, hold a sub-temple's seven matted rooms and kitchen under a roof gabled east and hipped west.

The Hori family house in Nishiyoshino, Nara, a thatched house of the late Muromachi period said to have sheltered the Southern Court, is among Japan's oldest.

The main hall of Matsunooji in Yamatokoriyama, Nara, built in 1337, is a five-bay hip-and-gable hall of the early Muromachi period, designated as early as 1902.

The three-storied pagoda of Minami Hokkeji, or Tsubosakadera, in Nara was built in 1497 and is an Important Cultural Property; its hidden Buddha is shown at times.

The raido of Minami Hokkeji, or Tsubosakadera, in Nara is a rare free-standing worship hall of the mid-Muromachi period (1393 to 1466) set before its octagonal hall.

Muroji Temple Five-Ring Stupa in Uda City, Nara, is an early Muromachi stone monument, excavated in 1916, preserving the layout of a medieval burial plot.

Muroji Temple Sutra Pagoda in Uda City, Nara, is a late Heian stone pagoda on a wooded summit, hollowed for a sutra container, with coins buried beneath it.

Hidden at the innermost sanctuary of Murō-ji Temple in Nara's Uda mountains, the Mieidō is an Important Cultural Property from the early Muromachi period. Reached by nearly 700 stone steps, this three-bay-square pyramidal-roofed hall enshrines an image of Kōbō Daishi and is one of the oldest Daishidō halls in Japan, noted for its unique thick wooden board step-roof. A sacred highlight of the temple long known as "Women's Kōya."

Tucked into the cedar-clad hills of Nara, the Miroku-dō at Murō-ji is an Important Cultural Property dating to the early Kamakura period. This three-bay hall with a hip-and-gable shingled roof preserves rare medieval techniques, including a distinctive double-roof attic structure, and houses a treasured Maitreya Bodhisattva statue from the late Nara to early Heian period. Discover the history and charm of this serene mountain temple, long known as 'Nyonin Kōya' — the Kōya-san for women.

A large mid-Edo farmhouse in Kashihara, Nara, with the oldest known yamato-mune roof, once the moated seat of a senior village headman. An Important Cultural Property.

Built in 1727 as Kasuga Taisha's fourth sanctuary and moved to this Yagyu village shrine in 1747, this one-bay kasuga-zukuri hall can be viewed at close range.

Yakushi-ji's South Gate, built in 1512, began as the West Precinct gate, moved onto the stones of the lost Great South Gate, fronting the Hakuho precinct.