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Panoramic view from the Symbolic Mountain at the Japanese Garden in Cowra, NSW, showing many of the typical elements of a Japanese garden.

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Japanese gardens (日本庭園 nihon teien?), that is, gardens in traditional Japanese style, can be found at private homes, in neighborhood or city parks, and at historical landmarks such as Buddhist temples and old castles.Some of the Japanese gardens most famous in the West, and within Japan as well, are dry gardens or rock gardens, karesansui.