The main building called shinden (seiden) is built facing a south garden with two subsidiary buildings called tainoya to the east and west of the shinden, and two corridors called wataridono connect the shinden and the two tainoya, from which the wataridono corridors extend south and end in tsuridono, or fishing pavilions.
寝殿（正殿）と呼ばれる中心的な建物が南の庭に面して建てられ、東西に対屋（たいのや）と呼ばれる付属的な建物を配し、それらを渡殿（わたりどの）でつなぎ、更に東西の対屋から渡殿を南に出してその先に釣殿を設けた。