A Japanese garden is not your ordinary garden

Japanese gardening is very different from Western-style garden. Most would say that a Japanese garden is much softer than the soul and inspires meditation. Japanese gardening is a cultural form of gardening that aims to produce a scene that mimics nature as much as possible. The use of trees, shrubs, rocks, sand, artificial hills, ponds, running water and the garden is an art form. Zen and Shinto