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Kanasana Shrine
It has no main hall, and worships Mount Omuro instead. Its tahoto pagoda is an Important Cultural Property.
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Chichibu Yomatsuri
Held on 2 and 3 December. Included in the UNESCO listing of float festivals.
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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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Kawagoe Kurazukuri
Black-plastered merchant storehouses line the street. It is called Little Edo.
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Chichibu Yomatsuri
Held on 2 and 3 December, with floats and fireworks. UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage.
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Sakitama Kofun
The Inariyama mound yielded the gold-inlaid iron sword, a National Treasure.
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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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Kawaguchi Casting
The setting of the film The Street with the Cupola. Everything from kettles to bridge girders was cast here.
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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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Mitsumine Sea of Clouds
At 1,100 metres. When the conditions align, the shrine floats on a sea of cloud.
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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.