Kyoto's Zen gardens are world famous and for good reason: these masterpieces of meticulously raked gravel, velvety moss and ...

Every day, hundreds of people visit Ryoanji Temple to see its Zen rock garden – which is probably the most famous of its kind in Japan. Located in Kyoto's northern outskirts, the temple was ...

The most famous of these can be found in Kyoto at the 15th-century Ryoan-ji, the Temple of the Peaceful Dragon. "While there are other similar gardens of great beauty," says James Ulak ...

Once Japan’s Imperial capital, the city has been a spiritual and cultural epicentre for more than a thousand years. That ...

Shigeyoshi Takemura, 51, a gardener at Ueyakato Landscape Co. in Kyoto, has been maintaining the gardens at Nanzenji temple for about 20 years. With irrigation water from the Lake Biwa Canal ...

Hans Sautter / Aurora Select Maiko walks through the Garden of Heian Shrine in Kyoto. Hans Sautter / Aurora Select Tenjuan temple garden, Nanzenji Temple complex, Kyoto Hans Sautter / Aurora ...

He has also donated fusuma-e works to Kenninji temple in Kyoto and Yakushiji temple in ... He added stones from Ryoanji’s rock gardens to the drawing of the ninth dragon.

Higashiyama – Sanjusangendo, a storied temple with amazing statues of thousand arm cannons, is fronted by an elegant garden within a walled compound that features alluring cherry trees. Kodaiji, a ...

Oshima Hiroshi, a chauffeur and tour guide, showed Steve Jobs around Kyoto. Oshima says one of Jobs' favorite destinations was Ryoanji, a 500-year-old Zen temple known for its rock garden.