This is a travel plan for Uji City, Kyoto, which has 2 World Heritage Sites: famous Byodo-in Temple and Ujigami Shrine. Both of them are 1,000-year-old buildings and worth watching, though they aren’t huge places. So it can be done in half a day, though of course you can spend more time on these beautiful places. Byodo-in is such a popular place and the hall faces East, so I recommend to visit there at 9:00 a.m. when it opens, because more tourists and school trips visit there after 9:30-10:00 a

In 2007, at Kyoto University’s Primate Research Institute, Professor Tetsuro Matsuzawa and his team conducted a famous experiment as part of the Ai Project. A young chimpanzee named Ayumu was shown numbers on a screen for just 210 milliseconds before they vanished. His challenge was to tap them in the correct order. Human university students were given the same task — and most failed where Ayumu excelled. The results were astonishing: Ayumu consistently outperformed humans, showing a level of vi