SaitamaHistoric DistrictsGyoda
Oshi Castle Ruins and Gyoda City Folk Museum
The floating castle that withstood Ishida Mitsunari's water attack, the model for the film The Floating Castle.
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SaitamaHistoric DistrictsTokorozawa
Lake Sayama
A reservoir completed in 1934. Formally the Yamaguchi Reservoir, it was built to supply Tokyo with water.
SaitamaExperiencesGyoda
Gyoda City Haniwa Museum
Make a clay haniwa figure among the Saitama burial mounds. Shaping takes 90 to 120 minutes; firing takes about a month.
SaitamaHistoric DistrictsGyoda
Gyoda's World's Largest Rice-Paddy Art and Kodai Hasu-no-Sato
A picture drawn in a paddy with rice of four colours. About 1,000 people take part in the planting.
SaitamaHistoric DistrictsKawagoe
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.
SaitamaHistoric DistrictsRanzan
Ranzan Gorge
The Tsuki River turns through 180 degrees, leaving a peninsula of land. The name comes from a likeness to Arashiyama in Kyoto.
SaitamaExperiencesTokigawa
Tamagawa Onsen (Showa-Retro Bathhouse)
Water rising from Paleozoic Chichibu strata 1,700 metres down. The men's and women's baths swap week by week.
SaitamaHistoric DistrictsKasukabe
Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel
A flood-control works whose surge tank is called the underground temple. Places once closed, such as the pump room, are now on the tour.
SaitamaHistoric DistrictsNamegawa
National Musashi Hills Forest Park
The first national park of its kind in Japan, laid out to mark a century since the Meiji Restoration. 304 hectares.
Kamisato
Kamisato Cantare
A confectionery factory shop. Items with nothing wrong but their looks are sold as outlet stock.
SaitamaHistoric DistrictsHidaka
Hiwada-san
A 305-metre hill with a gentle women's path and a rocky men's path. On clear days Skytree shows from the top.
SaitamaHistoric DistrictsNagatoro
Hodosan Ropeway
832 metres in about five minutes. Two cabins pass each other, counterbalanced.
SaitamaFood & MarketsOkegawa
Benihana-no-Sato Okegawa Roadside Station
A farm stand in Okegawa, which once ranked second in Japan for safflower production.
SaitamaHistoric DistrictsOgano
Ryokami Sanroku Hana-no-Sato Dahlia Garden
350 varieties and 5,000 plants over about a hectare, raised by local volunteers.
SaitamaHistoric DistrictsHanno
Hanno Riverbed
A riverside play area 15 minutes' walk from the station, under the red Wariiwa bridge. Gear can be hired from nearby shops.
SaitamaHistoric DistrictsKōnosu
Cosmos Arena Fukiage Area
About ten million cosmos over 8.8 hectares along the Arakawa levee. Poppies bloom in May.
SaitamaHistoric DistrictsRanzan
Ranzan Gorge Barbecue Site
The outdoor hearths are roofed, so they work in rain. Order the food in advance and you need bring nothing.
SaitamaHistoric DistrictsHanno
Tove Jansson Akebono Children's Forest Park
Buildings modelled on Nordic fairy tales stand about the grounds. The light-up is currently suspended.
SaitamaHistoric DistrictsChichibu
Roadside Station Otaki Onsen
A strong chloride spring along the Arakawa, combining day bathing, local cooking and a museum of Chichibu life.
SaitamaFood & MarketsChichibu
Jibasan Shotengai
A shop for Chichibu's produce and long-established specialities, stocking everyday goods as well as souvenirs.
SaitamaHistoric DistrictsKawaguchi
Kawaguchi Green Center Jurian and Roadside Station Kawaguchi-Angyo
In Angyo, a nursery district of some 400 years. Buy trees raised by local growers in the traditional way.
SaitamaHistoric DistrictsHigashimatsuyama
Saitama Peace Museum
Opened in 1993, showing how the people of the prefecture were bound up with the war from the early Showa years to its end.
SaitamaHistoric DistrictsNagatoro
Hodosan Shrine
Said to have been founded by Yamato Takeru. Revered as a guard against fire and theft, it draws over a million visitors a year.
SaitamaHistoric DistrictsRanzan
Kijin Shrine
Founded when Shigetada Hatakeyama placed demon figures here in 1182 to guard the unlucky quarter. At Setsubun the chant here welcomes the demons in.