For 16 generations, master gardeners in this one family have dedicated their lives to preserving one of the nation's most ...

I am smitten with Tokyo's eclectic mix of modern cosmopolitanism and old world Japan,' confesses Dinesh Raheja.

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 ... year-old pond fringed with lily pads and tree-lined ...

We booked our recent trip to Japan a year in advance to see the cherry blossoms, which only bloom briefly in the spring.

They peer between tree branches, cluster around altars, and dot winding pathways, flashes of bright red among the hillside forest. The iconic Japanese ... the 1,300-year-old temple, located ...

As Japan's population shrinks ... The completed property comprises three ancient houses and an old temple. The main building is a combination of two houses, one of them 220 years old from Hida ...

Take for example the concept of "wabi-sabi," which is so important in Japanese aesthetics ... But the cherry tree was growing old and seemingly approaching the end of its life.

But this isn't just any ordinary cherry blossom tree grove; it's also the domain of 97-year-old Tōemon Sano: Japan's most renowned ... Ninna-ji Temple garden; and, of course, at the nearby ...

For more than a millennium, Japanese people have admired the delicate ... Shinichi said this 40-year-old tree was grown from the seeds of the most iconic sakura in Kyoto: the dramatic weeping ...