Buildings in Heijokyo were not limited to Tang style; there were many buildings of traditional Japanese style, warehouses on stilts supported by pillars dug into the ground, with wooden plate floors and hiwadabuki (cypress bark) roofs known as takayukashiki-soko.
平城京に所在する建物は、唐風建築のみならず、掘立柱建物で板敷の高床式倉庫で屋根は檜皮葺という前代よりの伝統的な日本風建築も多かった。