You stride your mouse and gallop off on a tour of two dozen of Kyoto's most famous gardens. If, that is, you have slipped this CD-ROM into a Macintosh Power PC, System 7.5 or later, Quick Time 2.1 or later. Windows users will find no portal here.
The Apple-Macintosh owner, however, may now proceed through one virtual garden after another. The icon turns into a Basho-like figure (round straw hat, stave) and leads as you click your way through temples, pausing at will at every corner, and out into the gardens, each turn of the path proving a place to stop, if you want, and appreciate the view.
Supporting this virtual tour are maps, slides, essays, histories and pieces on garden aesthetics, with pictures (no movies) of the gardens that show every corner. If you want to see beyond that next bend, just click on Basho.