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The Kongobuji Temple Ajikando is a 1967 Shingon meditation hall on Mount Koya modeled on ancient monks' quarters, entered by joining the Ajikan meditation session.
The Kongobuji Temple Reception Room began as the 1933 guest house bathhouse, was moved whole around 1957 and refitted as a reception room facing the garden.
The Kongobuji Temple Inner Hall is a 1933 state guest hall on Mount Koya with a great carved strut and Ishizaki Koyo murals, seen across the Banryutei rock garden.
The Kongobuji Temple Inner Hall Wall is an 81-meter roofed wall of 1933 flanking the Imperial Envoy Gate on Mount Koya, with plaster panels and carved bracket arms.
The Kongobuji Temple Inner Hall Corridor is a T-shaped covered walkway of 1933 linking the Okuden, Annex and Reception Room, open-sided with a light timber frame.
The Kongobuji Temple Purification Fountain is a white 1958 concrete temizuya on the Jabara-michi path to the Danjo Garan, with a central basin and exposed rafters.
The Kongobuji Temple Bell Tower is a 1958 concrete belfry on the Danjo Garan that hangs Koya Shiro, a 2.12-meter bell of 1547 still rung five times each day.
The Kongobuji Temple Shinshoan is a 1964 guest tea house on Mount Koya given by Matsushita Konosuke, with a checkerboard-grain coffered ceiling and bark-edged posts.
The Kongobuji Temple Imperial Envoy Gate is a 1933 cypress-bark karamon before the Okuden on Mount Koya, with curved gables, lattice doors and a temple crest.
The Kongobuji Temple Annex is a 1933 guest hall on Mount Koya built for monks and believers, with Moriya Tadashi's paintings on the regular visitor route.
The Kongobuji Temple Hexagonal Sutra Repository is a 1932 two-tier hexagonal sutra hall on the Danjo Garan, concrete clad in timber, which visitors can push to turn.
An early-Showa annex linked to the main house in Fuchu, Wakayama City: two tatami rooms with a crosswise kirime-en on one side and a lengthwise kure-en on the other.
The Sasano Family Residence Front Gate and Wall in Gobo, Wakayama, pairs a set-back munamon gate with lattice and plank doors and a 14 m wall with a diamond post.
The Sasano Family Residence Main House in Gobo, Wakayama, is an early Shōwa home with a Western-style parlor and an L-shaped alcove upstairs, registered in 2018.
The Sasano Family Residence Storehouse in Gobo, Wakayama, is an early Shōwa storehouse on the street, with namako tiles below, white plaster above and iron doors.
The Shima Shrine Shinmon Gate and Flanking Walls in Wakayama City are a 1944 four-legged gate with 16 meters of latticed walls at the approach, registered in 2024.
The Shima Shrine Temizusha in Wakayama City is a 1944 water pavilion of 5.8 square meters with inward-leaning posts and daibutsuyo-style beam ends; registered 2024.
The Shima Shrine Worship Hall in Wakayama City is a 1944 irimoya hall with a cusped-gable porch, a coffered ceiling, and an attached prayer hall, registered in 2024.
Built in 1933 for Koyasan's eleven hundredth Kobo Daishi memorial, this bead merchant's shop carries a temple-style karahafu gable and still trades daily as a shop.
Jokiin Sanmon on Koyasan is a four-legged gate of about 1955 in cypress, with deliberately archaic carving. Free to view from the street. Registered 2025.