Shōwa

The north main gate of the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, built in about 1933, is a pair of granite-faced octagonal posts set 18 metres apart on the west forecourt.

The south main gate of the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, built in about 1933, pairs with the north gate to frame the facade with granite-faced octagonal posts.

The main building of the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, built in 1933 in the Imperial Crown style, blends Japanese and Western forms and was renovated in 2019.

The south information board of the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, built in about 1933, pairs with the north board, its tiled posts carrying a gabled copper roof.

Kyoto City Hall on Oike-dori, built in 1927 and 1931, is a symmetrical concrete city hall with a central tower, still in use, its interior dressed in Asian ornament.

The Kintetsu Yodogawa Bridge in Fushimi, Kyoto is a 164.6-metre pierless steel truss built in 1928 to clear an army drill ground. Still Japan's longest simple-truss railway span, it is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property and a JSCE A-rank civil engineering heritage.

Turning south from Kōshō-ji's main gate, this early-Taishō earthen wall runs about 45m along Horikawa-dōri, the longest in the precinct. It was registered in 2025.

Five-storey concrete office building of 1927 on Kawaramachi-dori, Kyoto, with an Art Deco entrance, stone-faced ground floor and acanthus pilaster heads.

This abbot's quarters is a spacious six-room shoin hall rebuilt in 1936 after the 1934 fire, with screens by Kubota Kinsen, on former Aizu headquarters ground.

Fronting the abbot's quarters, this four-legged gate covers barely seven square metres yet concentrates early-Showa Kyoto carving in its copper gable and transoms.

East of the abbot's quarters, this 1936 hall carries a copper-gabled car porch. Inside, a Western board-floored reception room sits beside a shoin tatami room.

Turning at a right angle from the karamon gate, this 57-metre earthen wall frames the abbot's south garden. Its five horizontal lines mark the highest temple rank.

Kurodani's main hall enshrines a portrait of Honen at seventy-five. Rebuilt after a 1934 fire by Kyoto University's Amanuma Shunichi in revived Kamakura style.

The Sato Family Residence High Wall in Nagaokakyo is an early Showa wall 40 metres long, with charred-cedar boards on a cut-stone base and a bracketed tile roof.

Kyoto's 1932 alumni hall for the Prefectural Normal School — Spanish-tile parapets, arched windows, and Art Deco round windows survive intact in northern Kyoto.

Repository of 1928 by Takeda Goichi at the Iwakura Tomomi Former Residence in Kyoto: a small concrete building with a tiled roof and scratch-tile walls.

Tea house of 1938 at Daishoji, an imperial convent in Kyoto, linked to the palace hall: an L-shaped building around a small tea room, a fine modern example.

High wall of around 1942 at Daishoji in Kyoto, 36 metres long, dividing the approach to the entrance hall from the forecourt; plastered, with a tiled coping.

Main hall of 1942 at Daishoji, an imperial convent in Kyoto: a six-room abbot's hall with balustraded verandas and a guest room with a painted alcove.

Corridor of 1942 at Daishoji, an imperial convent in Kyoto, linking the main and entrance halls: a double passage, boarded and matted, with a firewall partway along.