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• - On the campus of California State University, Long Beach. History, online tour with descriptions and photographs, and information about membership, events, and education.
  
• - Provides information on different styles of Japanese lanterns, and do-it-yourself projects for lanterns, rain chains and sand rakes.
  
• - Alberta garden incorporates a dry rock garden, mountain and waterfall, streams and bridges, ponds and islands, and a flat prairie garden. Visitor and event information, garden history.
  
• - Information about general content and subscriptions for this bi-monthly journal.
  
• - Visit a private Japanese style garden as it evolves in a backyard. Includes a page of links to Japanese garden resources.
  
• - A non-profit, educational web site that seeks to provide information on a selection of outstanding examples of garden art found in Japan while juxtaposing a diversity of media related to them.
  
• - Nicely illustrated informational pages covering various aspects of creating a Japanese garden. Directory of Japanese gardens in North America.
  
• - Japanese gardens built in 1918 in Saratoga, California. Includes koi pond, Zen and tea gardens, and a bamboo park. Photo gallery, visitor information.
  
• - Page with richly colored photographs of the 7-acre Japanese garden contained within the botanic garden.
  
• - Acclaimed public garden on 14 acres in Rockford, Illinois. History, photo gallery, and visitor information.
  
• - Private Japanese garden and ponds, with lots of photos, DIY projects and information on koi.
  
• - Information and pictures covering the design, botanical collection, exhibits, events, and history of this garden located in Balboa Park.
  
• - The largest Japanese garden in North America (14 acres), located in the Missouri Botanical Garden of St. Louis. Garden tour driven by Zen-inspired graphics.
  
• - Virtual tour of San Francisco's Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park. Complementary articles on Japan's Ritsurin Koen garden, zen tea poems, and the art of Japanese gardening.
  
• - A licensed landscape architect, garden designer, writer, and artist who has lived in Kyoto, Japan for the past 15 years. Portfolio of garden designs.
  
• - Personal narrative of a Canadian's efforts to build a Japanese garden. Chapters from a book subsequently published.
  
• - This garden in Northern Ireland consists of a dry garden, a tea garden, a stroll garden, and a water and rock garden. Virtual tour, information about the history and many of the plants, features, and ornaments.
  
• - Offers a yearly seminar on Japanese garden art sponsored by the Kyoto University of Art and Design, Kyoto, Japan.
  
• - History and photographs of this six-acre garden on Mirror Lake completed in 1974, intended as a horticultural gesture of friendship between two sister cities, Buffalo and Kanazawa, Japan.
  
• - The gardens at this Japanese cultural center in Delray Beach (Florida) include a paradise garden, various styles of rock and Zen gardens, and a garden in a modern romantic tradition, as well as a bonsai exhibit.
  
• - Course materials by Elizabeth Kim from Columbia University, covering aesthetic and philosophical concerns, plus the various elements which may be included. Bibliography.
  
• - This garden of water and fragrance in California is fashioned after 18th and 19th century stroll gardens. It incorporates a dry garden, a wet garden with promenade, and an authentic tea ceremony garden. Extensive descriptions, information, and photos.