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-chō
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Byōdō-in and Nintendo Museum.

Buddhist temple
is a Buddhist temple in the city of Uji in , , built in the late Heian period. It is jointly a temple of the Jōdo-shū and Tendai-shū sects.

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

Shinto shrine
Photo: Saigen Jiro, CC0.
is a Shinto shrine in the city of Uji, , . The shrine was built as a guardian shrine for the nearby , and is adjacent to the .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Fushimi-ku.

Suburb
Fushimi is one of the eleven wards in the city of , in , . Famous places in Fushimi include the Fushimi Inari Shrine, with thousands of torii lining the paths up and down a mountain; , originally built by Toyotomi…

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)
Inception
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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Satellite Map

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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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