Important Cultural Property of Shiga

Nine-storied stone pagoda inscribed with an era name of 1256 to 1257 at Enkoji in Yasu, Shiga, rising in front of the temple's Kamakura-period main hall.

Main hall of 1257 at Enkoji in Yasu, Shiga, restored in 1956 to its rare gabled form with a long front eave that makes the temple look almost like a shrine.

Built inside the Kyoto palace in 1619 for Tokugawa Masako and granted to Enman-in in 1647, this 19.7-metre shingle-roofed shoin hall in Otsu was designated in 1902.

Eleven 17th-century buildings designated together in 2016, spread across Mount Hiei's three precincts and Sakamoto: the Monju-ro gate, Saicho's mausoleum and more.

Rebuilt around 1678 in Mount Hiei's Tōdō precinct, this ordination hall wraps a skirt roof round a three-bay core so it looks two-tiered; inside is a stone platform.

Rebuilt in 1640, this 41-bay cloister encloses the forecourt of Enryakuji's head hall on Mount Hiei. A restoration viewing stage lets you look down on its roof.

Rebuilt in 1595, these identical square halls on Mount Hiei are joined by a corridor you walk beneath, hence the name Ninai-do. They still serve Tendai meditation.

Completed around 1895, this 11.65-metre bronze spire stands on a hill in Mount Hiei's Saito precinct: a pagoda finial set on its own post, braced by four struts.

Built in 1634 as the Buddhist hall of Sakamoto's Toshogu shrine, it was moved up Mount Hiei to become the Great Lecture Hall, home to statues of sect founders.

Built in 1347 and moved from Onjo-ji in 1595, the main hall of Mount Hiei's Saito precinct is Enryakuji's oldest building, a seven-bay hall known as the Shaka-do.

A three-bay late-Muromachi hall roofed in cypress bark, in cedar forest north of Saitō on Mount Hiei. Enryakuji calls it the only building to survive the 1571 fire.

Oisugi Shrine Main Hall in Kusatsu, Shiga, is a 1452 nagare-zukuri hall with painted carvings, designated in 1906, and host to the UNESCO Sanyare Odori.

Rebuilt in 1581 on Oda Nobunaga's order, the Main Hall of Oiso Shrine in Shiga is a three-bay nagare-zukuri hall roofed in cypress bark, set in the old Oiso Forest.

The 1427 Main Hall of Shinohara Shrine in Yasu, Shiga, stands beside a National Treasure. This Important Cultural Property is nicknamed the Rice-Cake Shrine.

An Important Cultural Property in Otsu, this 1670 shoin of Otsu Betsuin wraps in a U shape around a courtyard. A rare niche, hearth and shelf set its plan apart.

Ōtsu Betsuin Main Hall, Shiga, rebuilt in 1649, anchors a Higashi Hongan-ji branch founded in 1600 by the priest Kyonyo. An early-Edo Important Cultural Property.

Ono Shrine's tower gate in Ritto, Shiga is the oldest surviving romon at any shrine or temple in the prefecture, an early-Kamakura building in late Heian style.

Ozu Shrine Main Hall in Moriyama, Shiga: a three-bay nagare-style hall with a cypress-bark roof, rebuilt around 1526 in the late Muromachi period, in wooded grounds.

Oda Shrine's two-story Romon Gate in Omihachiman, Shiga, is a 14th-century Important Cultural Property, its cypress-bark roof and Muromachi form intact.

Kagami Shrine Hokyoin Pagoda, a late Kamakura stone tower 210 cm tall on the Saikoji temple site in Ryuo, Shiga, is carved with facing peacocks and corner owls.