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Nanzenji and the Aqueduct
A brick aqueduct runs through a Zen precinct - built after long argument, its design adjusted to sit with the temple.
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Nishi Honganji
The height of Momoyama building; its gate is nicknamed the sunset gate, because one loses the day looking at the carvings.
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Tenryuji Sogenchi Garden
Laid out by Muso Soseki and barely altered in 700 years, taking the mountains behind it into the garden itself.
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Katsura Imperial Villa
Three pavilions set diagonally so every room sees a different garden; Bruno Taut's account of it changed how the world read Japanese architecture.
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Shugakuin Imperial Villa
Three gardens up a hillside with working farmland kept between them, and a tea house at the top open to the whole basin.
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Kyoto Imperial Palace
Rebuilt in the 1850s but researched back to Heian precedent, down to the subjects of its wall paintings.
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Taian Tea House
The only tea room reliably by Sen no Rikyu: two mats, and the first entrance so low that everyone must stoop.
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Byodoin Phoenix Hall
Designed with its own reflection in mind; Jocho's joined-block carving inside settled the technique of Japanese sculpture.
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Ujigami Shrine
The oldest surviving shrine sanctuary in Japan, its three inner halls sheltered under one Heian-period roof.
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Iwashimizu Hachimangu
The finished form of the hachiman style, two halls joined front to back, with a gilded gutter Nobunaga gave spanning the valley between.
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Sumiya Museum
The only surviving ageya of the Shimabara quarter, with a ceiling papered in fans and a room inlaid with shell.
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Garden of Fine Arts Kyoto
Masterpieces fired onto ceramic panels and set outdoors; Ando's ramps make you look down on some and up at others.
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Kyoto Station Building
A vast glass structure dropped into a historic city, with a 171-metre atrium and a stair climbing to the roof - fiercely contested when built.
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Miyama Thatched Village
Most of the village is still thatched, and the rethatching is still done by the villagers together.
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Maizuru Red Brick Park
Twelve naval warehouses surviving together - a military complex preserved as an ensemble of brickwork.
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Dry Gardens of Kyoto
The garden that shows water without using any was perfected in Kyoto's Zen temples - mountain, river and sea in stone alone.
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Osaka Castle
Rebuilt in 1931 entirely by public subscription; the reconstruction is now itself a registered cultural property.