Improvements at the Japanese Tea Garden — once an 11-acre hole of a quarry — near completion after nearly a decade of work on the park. On June 5, a private reception and public jazz concert ...

The story is a fascinating one, and begins back in 1908 when the future Japanese Tea Garden was just a great big, gaping hole in the ground. It was the remnants of a cement quarry. “That was the ...

The Japanese Friendship Garden of Phoenix is a sanctuary of calm in the heart of the Arizona capital. Also known as Rohoen, this 3.5-acre space represents the bond between Phoenix and its sister city, ...