Because the temple used to be off limits to women, the Nyonindo (women's temple) was placed at the bottom of the path; starting there, the Yakushido (a National Treasure, and still as it was in the Heian period), the Haiden (worship hall, National Treasure) for Daigo-ji's guardian deity Seiryu-gongen, the Junteido and the Godaido are lined up on the steep mountain.
上り口にはかつて女人結界があったことから、女人堂がおかれ、そこから険しい山あいに、平安時代のままに残る国宝の薬師堂、醍醐寺の鎮守神である清瀧権現（せいりゅうごんげん）拝殿（国宝）、准胝堂、五大堂などが立ち並ぶ。