The Important Cultural Landscape (TICL) system, introduced with the 2004 revision of the Law for the Protection of Cultural Properties, has a limitation: municipalities that are not landscape administration bodies cannot apply for designation, making it difficult to preserve some cultural landscapes. To complement this, Kyoto Prefecture established its own system, the Cultural Landscape of Kyoto Prefecture (CLKP). This study focuses on two of the ten CLKP sites, Muko City and Wazuka Town, to clarify the effects and challenges of the system, with an emphasis on the stakeholders responsible for landscape conservation. In both areas, continuous conservation activities are carried out through cooperation between residents and local governments. Positive effects such as regional branding and supplementation of the national system were identified. Especially in Wazuka Town, the CLKP designation triggered conservation efforts aimed at future selection under the TICL system, indicating that the CLKP system functions as a preparatory step toward national designation.