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Extract from the Uji Travel Guides:
Thirty minutes' train ride south of Kyoto,
UJI
doesn't look particularly promising as you cross its broad, fast-flowing river among the electricity pylons and industrial suburbs. However, the town has a long, illustrious past and boasts one of Japan's most fabulous buildings, the
Byodo-in
- for a preview, look at the reverse side of a 10 coin. Somehow this eleventh-century hall, with its glorious statue of Amida Buddha, survived war, fire and years of neglect and preserves a stunning display of Heian-period art at its most majestic. Unfortunately, there's not a lot else to do in Uji, except sample their famous green...
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