Adachi Gardens - ranked Japan's best garden for over twenty years running

Adachi Museum of Art, tucked away in Yasugi in Shimane Prefecture, is famous for one thing above all: its garden, ranked Japan's best for over twenty years running by the Journal of Japanese Gardening. What makes it different is how you experience it — not by walking through, but by viewing it like a living painting through the museum's windows, each one framed like a piece of art. Pines are pruned into perfect shapes, white sand is raked daily, and borrowed scenery from the surrounding mountains blends seamlessly into the design so you can't tell where the garden ends and nature begins. Today I'm taking you through it.