There are perhaps very few cultures that can surpass the Japanese when it comes to gardens and it is in fact, well known that they are among the best designers of gardens in the world. In fact, typical Japanese garden landscaping involves almost invariably a large lotus pond that is traversed by a delicate bridge and there are also different plants as well as beauteous trees with rich flowering present that make these gardens so very spectacular.

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In fact, upon viewing Japanese garden landscaping you will immediately experience a sense of awe and in addition, it is also normal to feel very calm as well. Another aspect to Japanese garden landscaping is rock garden landscaping though these are also widely used in America where the rocks native to the rocky as well as alpine environments are found widely used in rockeries or American style rock garden landscaping.

To be sure, Japanese garden landscaping can be categorized into different types that include Tsukiyama type, Karensansui and Chaniwa. No matter which of these categories of Japanese garden landscaping that you view, you will come away feeling very calm as well as peaceful and you will also become very appreciate of the uniqueness of Japanese culture.

The first type of Japanese garden landscaping or the Tsukiyama type that literally translates into "Constructed Mountain" is a garden that embodies contours as well as hills and of course, there is also the ever present pond or even a stream included along with different kinds of plants, and perhaps a temple or Japanese style house as well.

The main characteristic of the other type of Japanese garden landscaping or the Karensansui garden is actually such that it won't remind you of what a normal garden would looks like since there is very little vegetation present in these gardens, and the emphasis is on arranging rocks as well as sands which are symbolic of the many different islands in Japan.

The third category of Japanese garden landscaping is the Chaniwa which is something that has been known to the Japanese since the fourteenth century and which is not a true garden, but consists of stepping stones that take you to a tea room, which in Japanese is known as Chaniwa, which is how this particular form of Japanese garden landscaping gets its name.

People that have designed Chaniwa gardens are prone to creating a garden that help the beholder feel at peace with them and there is emphasis on solitude as well as enlightenment and thus, this form of Japanese garden landscaping is ideally suited for practicing meditation, especially as these gardens are generally not open for the general public to enter.