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Visiting a Japanese garden
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Visiting a Japanese garden
Japanese gardens are widely known for a particular design following a unique aesthetic and philosophical concept. Tokyo hosts several of these gardens to be visited and enjoyed not just by garden fanatics but also by the ordinary tourist to encounter a new garden design as well as the regular visitor in search of contemplation and relaxation.
Japanese gardens are sometimes compared to the English garden. There are indeed some similar features such as interesting hills providing several perspectives as well as asymmetries in the garden elements. This produces the impression as if the garden was bigger than it is and creates variegated spaces. In this regard, both the English and the Japanese garden differ from the French garden with its clear-cut industrial arrangements. On the other hand, Japanese gardens consist of elements rarely found in the English garden such as rocks, stone lanterns and what connoisseurs of...
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