The article focuses on historic Japanese style gardens in Saratoga, California. The site of Nippon Mura garden today is known as Hacienda Inn, a restaurant and hotel located on Highway 9 between Los Gatos and Saratoga. Isabel Stine was quite enchanted by Japanese culture and fashioned the Hakone garden after a mountain resort and lake in the Fuji-Hakone National Park in southeast Honshu, Japan. The privately owned Kotani-en garden was created by architect Takahashi Takashima