Ryoan-ji is probably Kyoto's most famous rock garden. The minimalist design of the place, which features 15 rocks placed on ...

Muko is the entryway into the southwesterly hills that form the natural border between Kyoto and Osaka, and it's worth taking a quiet trip to explore its temples, gardens, and pilgrimage hiking ...

KYOTO--Reflecting the Japanese traditional aesthetics of “wabi-sabi” (transience and imperfection), moss-covered gardens have long mesmerized visitors from home and abroad. But there has been ...

While the bathroom on our cover might have very au courant vibes, it is found inside a Brooklyn town house dated to the 1840s. Actually a pair of town houses, which Tal Schori and Rustam Mehta of GRT ...

[email protected], 707-823-3110. Talk offers a curated tour of the gardens of Kyoto Aaron Hughes, the horticultural curator of Asian gardens at The Huntington in San Marino ...

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 ...

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.

Organizers call Naked Garden One Kyoto a "next-generation art project" that allows people to explore Kyoto in two worlds: real and virtual. It includes events at over 20 landmarks in and around ...

Hosted by the city government and the Kyoto City Tourism Association, the event is spread across 15 locations and runs until March 18. At Ryoanji temple, with its famous rock garden ...