Japanese garden

Connected Sites: 11

WHS that include a Japanese garden. Japanese gardens are "traditional gardens whose designs are accompanied by Japanese aesthetics and philosophical ideas, avoid artificial ornamentation, and highlight the natural landscape" (wiki)

Connected Sites

  • Ancient Kyoto
    Inscribed: 1994
    4.44
    350
    20
    Jisho-ji Garden, Nijō Castle Ninomaru Garden, Rokuon-ji Garden, Ryōan-ji Garden, Tenryu-ji Garden, The garden of Sanbōin in Daigo-ji, The moss garden of Saihō-ji (the "Moss Temple")
  • Schönbrunn
    Inscribed: 1996
    3.50
    506
    14
    Schonbrunn's Japanaese Garden since 1913 and restored in 1998
  • Hiraizumi
    Inscribed: 2011
    2.99
    60
    5
    gardens of Motsuji Temple
  • Centennial Hall
    Inscribed: 2006
    2.43
    190
    7
    at Szczytnicki Park
  • Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine
    Inscribed: 2007
    2.54
    51
    8
    Garden of Kumagai Residence, an example of Japanese garden in merchant class residence
  • Okinoshima Island
    Inscribed: 2017
    2.34
    45
    5
    Hetsugu Shrine has Japanese garden surrounding its two sacred ponds.
  • Nikko
    Nikko
    Japan
    Inscribed: 1999
    3.73
    180
    10
    Garden of Rinnoji Temple, Shōyō-en Garden
  • Kew Gardens
    Kew Gardens
    United Kingdom
    Inscribed: 2003
    3.24
    336
    18
    "Centred around Chokushi-Mon and covering an area of approximately 5,000 square metres, the Japanese landscape consists of three garden areas, designed to give an impression of some of the many different aspects of Japanese gardens." (Wiki)
  • Himeji-jo
    Inscribed: 1993
    3.51
    233
    10
    Koko-en Garden
  • Gusuku of Ryukyu
    Inscribed: 2000
    2.83
    67
    10
    Shikina-en (Naha, Okinawa)
  • Ancient Nara
    Inscribed: 1998
    4.00
    290
    14
    Todaiji Isuien Gardens