Trees and Ponds, "Water Garden" in Nasu Highland

Even though, the "Water Garden" seemed like a natural landscape, it actually was a man-made garden.

The garden was created in 2018. It was designed by Junya Ishigami who has received lots of awards including the Japan Institute of Architecture Award and a new architecture prize, the Obel Prize, which noted that Water Garden was regarded as an "influential idea that could redefine the future path of architecture."

It is said that the Water Garden was originally forest, which first became rice paddies, the next pastures and then became a current form of the garden with 318 trees and 160 ponds.