Kyoto, JapanArashiyama's premier Zen temple, with a celebrated borrowed-scenery garden backing onto the bamboo grove and hills.
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Kyoto
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Ten thousand torii gates winding up a mountain. Go at dawn or dusk alone and it becomes one of the most meditative walks of your life.
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Kyoto's gold-leaf Zen temple mirrored in its reflecting pond — the city's most iconic sight, dazzling in every season.
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A refined Zen temple with raked-sand cones, moss gardens, and a wooded hillside path — the quieter counterpoint to the Golden Pavilion.