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 ...

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KYOTO--“Fusuma-e” sliding door paintings ... The World Heritage site renowned for having one of the finest Zen rock gardens in Japan was built in 1450 by Hosokawa Katsumoto, a high-ranking ...

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.

a Northern California woodworker who trained as a temple carpenter in Kyoto, said, “Just go to Japan.” So I signed up at a Japanese language school, got my visa and went there. In Zen stories ...

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.

Kyoto proudly preserves its traditional ... The tour also took us past the Kenninji Temple (Japan’s oldest Zen Temple), ...