Uji
Uji is a city in Kyoto prefecture, Japan. 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 ".| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Byōdō-in and Nintendo Museum.
Byōdō-in
Buddhist temple
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Byōdō-in is a Buddhist temple in the city of Uji in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan, built in the late Heian period. It is jointly a temple of the Jōdo-shū and Tendai-shū sects.
Nintendo Museum
Museum
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The Nintendo Museum is a video game museum located in Uji, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. It is owned by the video game company Nintendo and displays a wide variety of products from across the company's history. The museum opened on October 2, 2024.
Ujigami Shrine
Shinto shrine
Photo: Saigen Jiro, CC0.
Ujigami Shrine is a Shinto shrine in the city of Uji, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. The shrine was built as a guardian shrine for the nearby Byōdō-in, and is adjacent to the Uji Shrine.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fushimi-ku.
Fushimi-ku
Suburb
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Fushimi is one of the eleven wards in the city of Kyoto, in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. Famous places in Fushimi include the Fushimi Inari Shrine, with thousands of torii lining the paths up and down a mountain; Fushimi Castle, originally built by Toyotomi…
Uji
- Categories: city of Japan, big city, and locality
- Location: Kyoto, Kansai, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
34.8851° or 34° 53′ 6″ northLongitude
135.7996° or 135° 47′ 58″ eastPopulation
185,000Elevation
23 metres (75 feet)Inception
March 1st, 1951Open location code
8Q6QVQPX+2ROpenStreetMap ID
node 533681109OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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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”
- Catalan: “Uji”
- Chechen: “Удзи”
- Chinese: “Uzi-chhī”
- Chinese: “宇治”
- Chinese: “宇治市”
- Croatian: “Uji”
- Czech: “Udži”
- Danish: “Uji”
- Dutch: “Uji”
- Esperanto: “Uĝi”
- Finnish: “Uji”
- French: “Uji-shi”
- 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”
- Korean: “우치 시”
- Korean: “우치시”
- Latvian: “Udži”
- Literary Chinese: “宇治市”
- Lithuanian: “Udžis”
- Lithuanian: “Uji”
- 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: “Киото Удзи”
- Russian: “Удзи Киото”
- Russian: “Удзи, Киото”
- Russian: “Удзи”
- Serbian: “Udži”
- Serbian: “Уђи”
- Serbian: “Уџи”
- Serbian: “宇治市”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Udži”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Uji”
- Silesian: “Uji (mjasto)”
- Silesian: “Uji”
- Sinhala: “උජි”
- Slovenian: “Uji”
- South Azerbaijani: “اوجی، کیوتو”
- South Azerbaijani: “اوجی”
- Spanish: “Uji Kioto”
- 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”
- Venetian: “Uji”
- Vietnamese: “Uji, Kyōto”
- Vietnamese: “Uji”
- Waray (Philippines): “Uji, Kyoto”
- Waray (Philippines): “Uji”
- Welsh: “Uji”
- Yue Chinese: “宇治”
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