east of Kyoto, Kodai-ji Temple is a tribute to the maple and bamboo plants that dominate its expansive gardens. Surrounding the place of worship for followers of the Rinzai School of Japanese ...

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 ...

KYOTO—Open leaves on the juniper haircap ... who is in charge of maintenance of the temple grounds. The temple is also famous for its moss garden featuring seven stone statues of “warabe ...

Situated on Otowa Mountain in eastern Kyoto, Kiyomizu-dera Temple wows travelers with its stunning natural scenery, which visitors say is best viewed from the verandah off the temple's main building.

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.

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.

When we were in Japan we wanted to do a lot of stamp collecting. Two of the layered stamps we collected were from two botanical gardens, one garden was the Kyoto Botanical Garden and the other was the ...