Uji Travel Guides

Free to enter and steeped in 170 years of Uji tea culture, Nakamura Tōkichi Honten sells stone-ground matcha and gyokuro and serves the city's most celebrated nama-cha jelly parfait — with a ticket-queue café alongside.

Explore the Tale of Genji Museum in Uji — dedicated to Murasaki Shikibu's 11th-century masterpiece. Recreated Heian interiors, a full-size ox-carriage, and the Sawarabi-no-michi literary walk at your doorstep.

Cross Uji Bridge (Ujibashi) — first built in 646 CE and counted among Japan's three most celebrated ancient bridges — spanning the Uji River between Byōdō-in and Ujigami Shrine. Free, open 24/7.

Ujigami Shrine in Uji holds Japan's oldest surviving Shinto shrine building — a free-entry UNESCO World Heritage site with a honden dated to around 1060, reached via the Sawarabi-no-michi path on the east bank of the Uji River.

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