Japan Travel : Amazing Japanese Landscape

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Secondary characteristics

1. Gardens with sculptured plants. Home gardens are "the omnipresent and highly distinctive landscape feature of the nation." These will generally be very small, not due some dislike of nature, but due to the fact that there is so little space available that can be devoted to a garden.

The gardens are based on the approach of nature controlled by humans, maximizing use of limited space. Basically, the things in the garden are in the particular places they are for a specific reason, and need to be considered as a whole.

2. Flowers along thoroughfares. This can make the area appear more attractive and ordered.

3. Lack of lawns due to lack of available space. Also, the Japanese simply are not "into" the importance of lawns as are people in the U.S. Although this would seem strange to people in the U.S., a lack of lawns does avoid the necessity for mowing, helps avoid noise and other forms of pollution and helps save on water use since it won't be necessary to water lawns.

4. Lack of roadside shoulders. This can prove a problem to cars that are having trouble, of course, giving them no where to pull over.

The book also notes the presence of numerous vending machines in Japan which basically have twice the sales per machine as do machines in the U.S. This also helps free up shelf space in small stores, so having many vending machines can actually benefit the Japanese and is not necessarily something bad as one other author seems to believe.

5. Profusion of aerial utility lines. There are a lot of lines linking the various poles, but this is not something unique to Japan. It would be possible to bury the lines, but that would prove considerably difficult and expensive (and is also something not done very often in U.S. cities, either).

6. Pervasive vinyl plant covers. These can take the form of greenhouse-type coverings or ground coverings that help control the growth of weeds.

7. Walled urban areas with gates. Houses will be surrounded by walls and have a locked gate, as distinguished from houses in the U.S. which generally lack walls and fences. The difference is cultural, though, in that the U.S. houses represent individualism and the Japanese houses represent a sort of confined family unity.

8. Sacred spaces such as Shinto shrines and Buddhist statues in alleys, streets or on corners. This can include tiny statuettes along roadsides along with other structures. These are often seen in Japanese anime and movies.

9. Waning of traditional architecture. The Japanese are moving from their traditional architecture (wooden buildings, tatami-matted floors, etc.) to more Western style housing. Why? Western-style housing lasts about 50 to 70 years; post-WWII Japanese homes last only about 20. Homes can even be imported from the U.S. (over 5000 in 1995). This is thus not an attack on Japans past but is a response to a need for more modern and better-constructed buildings.