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Hikawa Nyotai Jinja
The shrine paired with Hikawa Jinja. It preserves the Mifune festival, set on the old Minuma wetland.
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Tsuki Jinja
It has no torii, and rabbits sit where guardian lions usually would. The reading tsuki also gave rise to a belief in luck in contests.
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Hikawa Jinja
The head shrine of some 280 Hikawa shrines nationwide. Its approach runs about two kilometres, among the longest in Japan.
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Hikawa Sando
The two-kilometre approach is among the longest in Japan. Its avenue of trees became the spine of the town.
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Omiya Bonsai Village
A district built by bonsai growers who moved here after the Great Kanto Earthquake.
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The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama
Design classics are set out to be sat on; Kisho Kurokawa's grid facade opens onto the park.
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Urawa Art Museum
One of the few museums in Japan collecting book art - the made book itself treated as the work.
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Omiya Bonsai Art Museum
The world's first public bonsai museum, beside the village founded by Tokyo growers who fled the 1923 earthquake.
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Iwatsuki Doll Museum
Japan's first public museum devoted to dolls, in the town that has made their heads for centuries.
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Saitama Prefectural Museum of History and Folklore
A Kunio Maekawa building in his late tile-clad manner, holding National Treasure swords.
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Saitama International Art Festival
A triennial staged in empty buildings and shopping streets, run with residents on the team.
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Iwatsuki Dolls
Faces built up in layers of shell white over paulownia paste, a trade traced to the Toshogu craftsmen.
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Omiya Hikawa Approach
A two-kilometre approach, among Japan's longest, forming a green axis through the modern city.