Abstract
The traditional Japanese teahouse garden is the essence of traditional Japanese tea culture and traditional
Japanese architecture. The stepping stones laid in the tea garden offer a connection between the tea house and
the external space. Taking the circulation of stepping stones in the traditional Japanese tea gardens as the object,
the present study analyzed and examined its layout form, physical form, and its constitution relationship with
landscape elements through data survey and other means. It has revealed the circulation of stepping stones allows
for the transition of time and space in the process of entering a tea house through a "complicated" design method.
