SaitamaArchitectureKawagoe
Kawagoe Kurazukuri Street
Edo's merchant architecture is almost gone in Tokyo; here a street of black-plastered shop-storehouses survives.
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SaitamaArchitectureKawagoe
Toki no Kane Bell Tower
A wooden bell tower rebuilt four times since the 1600s, still ringing four times a day.
SaitamaArchitectureKumagaya
Menuma Shodenzan
Called the Nikko of Saitama; its carved and repainted main hall is a National Treasure.
SaitamaArchitectureGyoda
Tabi Storehouses of Gyoda
A town that once made 80 percent of Japan's tabi socks; over 80 of its storehouses survive.
SaitamaArchitectureFukaya
Seishido and Seifutei
Built for Shibusawa Eiichi's 77th birthday in local brick, its interior threaded with Asian motifs.
SaitamaArchitectureFukaya
Fukaya Station
The town that supplied Tokyo Station's bricks rebuilt its own station in Tokyo Station's image.
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SaitamaArchitectureYorii
Hachigata Castle Ruins
Set between a river cliff and a ravine, its earthworks preserve the engineering of Sengoku castle-building.
SaitamaArchitectureOgano
Ogano Kabuki
Festival floats are reassembled into a stage; townspeople act, and make the sets and costumes themselves.
SaitamaArchitectureHidaka
Koma Shrine and District
A district settled by refugees from Goguryeo; the thatched Koma house still stands.
SaitamaArchitectureSaitama
Omiya Hikawa Approach
A two-kilometre approach, among Japan's longest, forming a green axis through the modern city.
SaitamaArchitectureKawajima
Farmstead Woods of Kawajima
Storehouses raised on flood mounds and homes ringed by windbreak woods - living with water made visible.
SaitamaArchitectureChichibu
Chichibu 34 Kannon Temples
A hundred-kilometre pilgrimage linking Kannon halls scattered through mountains and valleys.
SaitamaArchitectureWarabi
Warabi Post Town
A post town on the Nakasendo, its street plan still legible in the surviving townhouses.