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Stand on Uji Bridge by the San-no-ma

A bridge first built, it is said, in 646

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Uji Bridge

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A bridge held to have first been built in 646, with a small balcony on the upstream side from which Hideyoshi is said to have had water drawn for tea. The water-drawing rite still happens there each October.

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