Uji

Uji is a city in Kyoto prefecture, . Two of Uji's historic monuments, Byōdō-in Buddhist temple and Ujigami Shinto Shrine, have been inscribed as World Heritage sites as part of "Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto ".
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  • Type: City with 185,000 residents
  • Description: city in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
  • Also known as: “Uji Kioto”, “Uji-chō”, “Киото Удзи”, “Удзи Киото”, “Удзи, Киото”, “우치 시”, and “우치시”
  • Neighbors: and
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Places of Interest

Highlights: Byōdō-in and Ujigami Shrine.

Buddhist temple
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is a Buddhist temple in the city of Uji…

Shinto shrine
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is a Shinto shrine in the city of Uji, , .

Museum
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The is a video game located in Uji, , .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Fushimi-ku and Kumiyama.

Suburb
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Fushimi is one of the eleven wards in the city of , in , .

Town
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is a town located in , , Japan.

Uji

Latitude
34.8851° or 34° 53′ 6″ north
Longitude
135.7996° or 135° 47′ 58″ east
Population
185,000
Elevation
23 metres (75 feet)
Established
March 1st, 1951
Open location code
8Q6QVQPX+2R
Open­Street­Map ID
node 533681109
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1849372
Wiki­data ID
Q326956
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Uji” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “يوجي”
  • Armenian: “Ուձի”
  • Asturian: “Uji”
  • Azerbaijani: “Uci”
  • Basque: “Uji”
  • Bengali: “উজি, কিয়োটা”
  • Bengali: “উজি”
  • Burmese: “အုဂျိမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Uji”
  • Chechen: “Удзи”
  • Chinese: “宇治”
  • Chinese: “宇治市”
  • Croatian: “Uji”
  • Czech: “Udži”
  • Danish: “Uji”
  • Dutch: “Uji”
  • Esperanto: “Uĝi”
  • Estonian: “Uji”
  • Finnish: “Uji”
  • French: “Uji”
  • Galician: “Uji”
  • German: “Uji”
  • Greek: “Ούζι”
  • Gujarati: “ઉજી”
  • Hebrew: “אוג’י”
  • Hindi: “यूजी”
  • Hungarian: “Udzsi”
  • Indonesian: “Uji, Kyōto”
  • Indonesian: “Uji”
  • Irish: “Uji”
  • Italian: “Uji”
  • Japanese: “Uji-shi”
  • Japanese: “うじし”
  • Japanese: “宇治”
  • Japanese: “宇治市”
  • Kannada: “ಉಜಿ”
  • Korean: “우지 시”
  • Korean: “우지시”
  • Latvian: “Udži”
  • Literary Chinese: “宇治市”
  • Lithuanian: “Udžis”
  • Malagasy: “Uji”
  • Malay: “Uji, Kyoto”
  • Malay: “Uji”
  • Marathi: “उजी”
  • Mazanderani: “اوجی، کیوتو”
  • Mazanderani: “اوجی”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Uzi-chhī”
  • Mongolian: “Үжи”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Uji”
  • Norwegian: “Uji”
  • Persian: “اوجی، کیوتو”
  • Persian: “اوجی”
  • Polish: “Uji”
  • Portuguese: “Uji”
  • Romanian: “Uji”
  • Russian: “Удзи”
  • Serbian: “Udži”
  • Serbian: “Уђи”
  • Serbian: “Уџи”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Udži”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Uji”
  • Silesian: “Uji (mjasto)”
  • Silesian: “Uji”
  • Sinhala: “උජි”
  • Slovenian: “Uji”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اوجی، کیوتو”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اوجی”
  • Spanish: “Uji”
  • Swedish: “Uji, Kyōto”
  • Swedish: “Uji”
  • Tagalog: “Udyi”
  • Tagalog: “Uji”
  • Tajik: “Uçi”
  • Tajik: “Уҷи”
  • Tamil: “உஜ்ஜி”
  • Tatar: “Удзи”
  • Tatar: “Уҗи”
  • Telugu: “యుజి”
  • Thai: “อุจิ”
  • Thai: “อูจิ”
  • Turkish: “Uji”
  • Ukrainian: “Уджі”
  • Ukrainian: “Удзі”
  • Urdu: “اجی”
  • Urdu: “اوجی”
  • Venetian: “Uji”
  • Vietnamese: “Uji, Kyōto”
  • Vietnamese: “Uji”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Uji, Kyoto”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Uji”
  • Welsh: “Uji”
  • Yue Chinese: “宇治”

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