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Japanese gardens can be found at private homes, in neighborhood or city parks, and at historical landmarks such as Buddhist temples and old castles.

Some of the Japanese gardens most famous in the West, and within Japan as well, are dry gardens or rock gardens, karesansui. The tradition of the Tea masters has produced highly refined Japanese gardens of quite another style, evoking rural simplicity.

In Japanese culture, garden-making is a high art, intimately related to the linked arts of calligraphy and ink painting. Since the end of the 19th century, Japanese gardens have also been adapted to Western settings. Japanese gardens were developed under the influences of the distinctive and stylized Chinese gardens.

Where to visit Japanese gardens in the uk:

• Kildrummy Castle Gardens
• Isle of Mull Torosay Castle
• Emmaus House, Bristol
• Seal Point, Luton
• Sir Thomas and Lady Dixon Park, Belfast
• Savill Garden, Windsor
• Real Japanese Garden, Llanarthne
• Foxhill Arboretum, Frodsham Cheshire
• Tatton Park, Cheshire
• Duthie Park, Aberdeen
• Lauriston Castle, Edinburgh
• The Bonsai Nursery, Newquay
• Pine Lodge Gardens, St Austell
• Lamorran House Gardens, St Mawes
• Plant World, Devon
• Dartington Hall Gardens, Devon
• Compton Acres, Dorset
• Stapehill Abbey
• Broughton House, Dumfries & Galloway
• Arbigland Gardens, Dumfries & Galloway
• Olivers, Essex
• The Gardens of Easton Lodge, Essex
• Barnards Farm, Essex
• Drumadravey Gardens
• St Mungo Zen Garden
• Batsford Arboretum, Glos
• Exbury Gardens, Hants
• Mazda Garden, Herts
• Ware Fanhams Hall, Herts
• Garadh Tigh Na Drochaid
• Mount Ephraim, Kent
• Broadview Gardens, Kent
• Tully Japanese Garden, Kildare
• Terraced gardens, Lancs
• Brunei Gallery Roof Garden, London
• Zen meditation garden - "Bridge over Mountain", London
• Gunnersbury Park, London
• Kensington Kyoto Garden, , London
• Chumleigh Multicultural Garden, London
• Peckham Rye Park, London
• Calderstones Park, Liverpool
• Mount Grace Priory, North Yorkshire
• Peasholm Park, North Yorkshire
• Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire
• Pureland, Nottinghamshire
• Saundersfoot Bay Leisure Park, Pembrokeshire
• Glendoick Gardens, Perthshire
• Rookery Garden, Suffolk
• Ramster, Surrey
• Painshill Garden, Surrey
• Coombe Wood, Surrey
• Gatton Park, Regate, Surrey
• Kew Gardens, Surrey
• Botanical Gardens & Glasshouses, West Midlands
• Arts Building Courtyard, Coventry, West Midlands
• Danescourt Cemetery, Wolverhampton, West Midlands
• Leonardslee Gardens, West Sussex
• Harewood House, Leeds
• Powerscourt Gardens, Wicklow
• Iford Manor, Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire
• Heale Garden, Wiltshire