Name: Explore a Zen Garden with your guide in a one-day private tour
SKU: 33833
Price: 10 USD
Availability: InStock

Duration: 8h

Activity Level: Intensive

Experience: Ecotourism, Family, Historical, Nature

Language: English

Photo permit included

Tour by public transport

Canal Boat tour included

Train tickets included

Suitable for little children

Wheelchair accessible tour

Museum ticket included

Light snack included

Lunch included

Transportation included

Walking Tour

Overview

Zen rock gardens, or karesansui which means dry mountain water, originated in medieval Japan and are renowned for their simplicity and serenity. Visit the most famous and beautiful places of the garden, including popular Ryoan-ji, the Temple of the Peaceful Dragon and explore each Zen rock and sand in this full of new knowledge and experience one-day tour.

What's included

English-speaking guide
Pick-up and drop-off
Admission tickets
All fees and taxes

Personal expenses
Food and drinks

Highlights

Konchi-in

Konchi-in is a Buddhist temple in Sakyō-ku, Kyoto, western Japan. The temple is renowned for its Crane and Turtle Garden Japanese garden.

Kyoto

Kyoto, officially Kyoto City is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in Japan. Located in the Kansai region on the island of Honshu, Kyoto forms a part of the Keihanshin metropolitan area along with Osaka and Kobe. As of 2018, the city had a population of 1.47 million. In 794, Kyoto was chosen as the new seat of Japan's imperial court. The original city was arranged in accordance with traditional Chinese feng shui following the model of the ancient Chinese capital of Chang'an. The emperors of Japan ruled from Kyoto in the following eleven centuries until 1869, when the court relocated to Tokyo.

Ryōan-ji

Ryōan-ji, The Temple of the Dragon at Peace) is a Zen temple located in northwest Kyoto, Japan. It belongs to the Myōshin-ji school of the Rinzai branch of Zen Buddhism. The Ryōan-ji garden is considered one of the finest surviving examples of kare-sansui ("dry landscape"), a refined type of Japanese Zen temple garden design generally featuring distinctive larger rock formations arranged amidst a sweep of smooth pebbles (small, carefully selected polished river rocks) raked into linear patterns that facilitate meditation. The temple and its gardens are listed as one of the Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto, and as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Zen Rock Gardens

Zen rock gardens, or karesansui (translated as "dry-mountain-water"), originated in medieval Japan and are renowned for their simplicity and serenity.

Itinerary

08:00 09:00

Your guide will meet you at your hotel.

After the arriving to Zen Gardens you will fully immerse into the world of Kyoto art and Japanese zen.

Visit, explore and get to know more about such places as: Konchi-in, Tenju-an, Nanzen-ji, Ryogen-in and beautiful temple Zuiho-in.

Your guide will fully accompany you, tell you all the interesting facts and answer all your questions.

At the end of the tour you will be dropped off your hotel.

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Explore a Zen Garden with your guide in a one-day private tour