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Kawagoe Hikawa Jinja
Known for matchmaking, and crowded in summer for its corridor of wind chimes. The Kawagoe festival is UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage.
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Gohyaku Rakan
Five hundred and thirty-eight rakan figures stand in rows, and no two faces are said to be alike.
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Senba Toshogu
It claims to be one of the three great Toshogu, with Nikko and Kunozan.
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Enmusubi-dama
A charm in which you take home a pebble from the grounds. In summer a corridor of wind chimes is hung.
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Kawagoe Kurazukuri
Black-plastered merchant storehouses line the street. It is called Little Edo.
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Kashiya Yokocho
About twenty old-fashioned sweet shops in a row, holding the air of the Showa years.
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Kawagoe City Art Museum
Keeps a room for Kyuichiro Aihara, a Kawagoe native who spent his life painting Hokkaido.
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Kashiya Yokocho
In the early Showa years more than 70 shops made sweets here; about 20 remain. One of the Environment Ministry's hundred fragrant landscapes.
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Kawagoe Daishi Kita-in Temple
After the great fire of 1638, the room where Iemitsu was born and Kasuga no Tsubone's dressing room were moved here from Edo Castle. One of Japan's three great rakan sites.