Japanese gardens provide a peaceful escape from the rushed city life, making it an ideal place for meditative walks ...

It's a nice walk around the lake and past the golden temple." Another said: "It is one of the most beautiful places in Japan because besides the history it carries has a whole landscape ...

Eduardo Rubiano Moncada The Paradise Garden reflects Japanese landscape design of the Kamakura ... of dry landscaping that surround Zen Buddhist temples in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Consisting of the Dry Landscape ... the top 50 in Japan were Minamikan ryokan in Matsue (4th); the Yushien garden also in the Shimane prefectural capital (21st); Kokokuji temple in Izumo, Shimane ...

The iconic Japanese dolls range from a couple of inches to several feet in height, and there are thousands of them at the 1,300-year-old temple, located about an hour from downtown Osaka in Minoh ...