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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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Hosomi Museum
Three generations of collecting Rinpa and Jakuchu, in a building that descends underground away from the street.
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Jotenkaku Museum
Holds what Shokokuji and its sub-temples Kinkakuji and Ginkakuji kept, including Jakuchu's ink panels for the Golden Pavilion.
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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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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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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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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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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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Sumiya Museum
The only surviving ageya of the Shimabara quarter, with a ceiling papered in fans and a room inlaid with shell.