The Japanese Rock Garden was created in Karlovy Vary on the initiative of Masumi Schmidt-Muraki, a Japanese woman living in Munich, Germany. The project was designed by Japanese garden architect Kanji Nomura. The Zen Buddhist rock garden, created for meditation, is an expression of the element of water without using water itself. The shape of a circle with an inner curve symbolizes the principle of Yin and Yang.

The stones are placed in such a way as to promote the harmony of human thought and health. The "rock garden" was created on the outskirts of the so-called "geyser line" passing through Karlovy Vary, on the axis of which all hot springs come to the surface.
The white gravel symbolizes the sea between the eastern and western hemispheres of the Earth. From the eastern shore in a western direction, a stone shaped like a ship is sent to the sea. In the middle of the sea, a small stone protrudes, reminiscent of Mrs. Hana Balz, a Japanese woman who married a German doctor Erwin Balz in the last century, moved to Europe and did a lot to bring Japanese and European cultures closer together. The stone can also signify Good, the purpose of which is to connect the West and the East, or, for example, a mythical tortoise or a seeker who, in the sea or the labyrinth of the world, dreams of paradise.