What image comes to your mind when you think of a Japanese garden? Perhaps Zen gardens, with their manicured plants, stones, and mosses… Well, Beniya Mukayu’s garden offers you a totally different experience:
One of the hotel’s distinctive features is its garden, located in the center of the site, which looks like a large thicket of assorted hardwoods. It bears no resemblance to any of the elaborate, artistic gardens found in the temples of Kyoto. Here, maples, pines, camellias, Chinese quinces, and other trees grow freely and thrive. Flourishing natural formations sometimes permeate nature that’s been left relatively untouched. In the fresh green season, new maple leaves inundate the garden. The windows of every guest room are opened wide onto the garden. And so the flood of young leaves, transformed into the current of dappled light, spills into each room.
Kenya Hara, DESIGNING DESIGN.
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