Even though there are temples with a Chinese-style symmetrical garan layout in which a sanmon gate is connected through the corridors to the Buddha hall, behind which a lecture hall and a hojo (head priest's living quarters) are built, a kuin and a sodo on the left and right sides of the corridors, and a yokushitsu and tosu are placed diagonally across the sanmon gate; such temples whose whole garan structures (including the corridors) remain are limited to those built in the early-modern times, such as Zuiryu-ji Temple (Takaoka City, Toyama Prefecture), Mampuku-ji Temple (Kyoto Prefecture), etc.
三門からの回廊が仏殿に達し、後ろに法堂・方丈を建て、回廊左右に庫院と僧堂を、三門斜前方に浴室と東司を設けるという中国風の左右対称の伽藍配置をもつ寺院もあるが、回廊まで含めて残っているのは富山・瑞龍寺(高岡市)、京都・萬福寺など近世以降のものに限られている。