Japan Zen Peacefulness Meditation

I spent ten days in Japan in the summer of 1980.  I have developed a major desire to go there.  As I get older and more sedate, I find I admire meditation and peacefulness.  A Buddhist monastery for retirement learning and contemplation is sounding better and better.

The food is healthy and I am eating less as I get older.  The American ideal of the giant steak somehow seems less attractive nowadays.

I do not understand much of what I read in Zen writings.  Could only be a simple practitioner.

The Japanese people must be doing something right.  They have the longest life expectancy in the world.