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Kyoto National Museum
The central repository for what Kyoto's temples and shrines have handed down, in Katayama's French Baroque halls.
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Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art
Japan's oldest surviving public art museum building, updated by digging the ground away and sliding a glass entrance beneath it.
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National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
Treats craft as the equal of fine art; Fumihiko Maki's building sits quietly between a canal and a giant torii.
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Museum of Kyoto
Its annex is Tatsuno's former Bank of Japan branch, red brick banded in white stone, still on Sanjo street.
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Kahitsukan Kyoto Museum of Contemporary Art
A narrow Gion building used vertically, with a light court on the top floor as the only place the sky appears.
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Kitamura Museum
Tea utensils rearranged to the season's gathering, beside a modern sukiya house of the first rank.
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Yurinkan Museum
Japan's first private museum of Chinese art, under an octagonal pavilion roof by Goichi Takeda.
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Kawai Kanjiro's House
The potter designed his own house; wheel, kiln and furniture remain exactly as they were, work and life undivided.
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Nijo Castle Ninomaru Palace
Subject matter and ceiling height change with each room's rank, and every painting is composed for the shogun's own seat.
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Sanjusangendo
A 120-metre hall holding 1,001 life-size Kannon; 124 survive from the 1100s, and no two faces are the same.
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Ryoanji Rock Garden
Fifteen stones on 75 square metres of gravel, placed so that from any viewpoint one is always hidden.
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Daitokuji Sub-temples
Twenty sub-temples bound up with the tea ceremony; many National Treasure tea rooms and dry gardens are still kept closed to the public.
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Tofukuji Hojo Garden
Shigemori Mirei laid gardens on all four sides; the checkerboard of moss and stone brought modern design into the dry garden.
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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.