{"id":2505,"date":"2025-07-13T04:59:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T08:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/?p=2505"},"modified":"2025-07-13T04:59:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T08:59:19","slug":"kcjs-weekend-travel-to-uji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/summer-2025\/kcjs-weekend-travel-to-uji\/","title":{"rendered":"KCJS &#8211; Weekend travel to Uji"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Hello! This weekend I went on a little daytrip to Uji. Uji is known for their matcha and matcha related sweets, as well as Byodo-in temple (which is on the 10 yen coin). One of the advantages about being in Kyoto is that fantastic travel locations are all a train ride away (Nara, Osaka, Uji, Biwako, Kobe, etc).<br \/><br \/>At Uji, I bought a lot of matcha and teas for folks back home, tried many yummy deserts and teas, and visited the famous Byodo-in. It was very hot but the breeze near Uji&#8217;s river helped! The natural scenery and the small-town atmosphere was a great breath of fresh air.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello! This weekend I went on a little daytrip to Uji. Uji is known for their matcha and matcha related sweets, as well as Byodo-in temple (which is on the 10 yen coin). One of the advantages about being in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/summer-2025\/kcjs-weekend-travel-to-uji\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3230,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-summer-2025"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3230"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2505"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2512,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505\/revisions\/2512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}