SaitamaExperiencesChichibu
Chichibu Geo Gravity Park
A suspension bridge on the piers of the old Shirakawa bridge, where you cross, slide and jump. There is a bungee too.
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SaitamaExperiencesMisato, Saitama
OGISHI Misato Park
Lawns and large wooden play structures. Moss phlox in spring, irises in June. You can fish in the Koaidameoi.
SaitamaHistoric DistrictsYokoze
Terasaka Rice Terraces
Among the largest terraced paddies in Saitama. Of some 5.2 hectares, about four — roughly 250 plots — have been brought back into use.
SaitamaHistoric DistrictsKawaguchi
Kawaguchi City Green Center
A park of about 158,000 square metres with 22 kinds of field athletics.
SaitamaExperiencesKasukabe
Kasukabe Onsen Yuranosato
Water from 1,500 metres down. Its high salt content holds the heat, so it is called the bath of warmth.
SaitamaFood & MarketsHanno
OH!!! Hakkō, Kenkō, Shoku-no-Mahō!!!
A fermentation theme park run by the pickle maker Pickles Corporation, serving dishes made with rice koji and lactic bacteria.
SaitamaFood & MarketsChichibu
Chichibu Omotesando Lab.
A complex in a converted old house on the approach to Chichibu Shrine, with a bar pouring twenty draught beers at all times.
Toda
Thank Japan Toda Park
Built between 1937 and 1940, the largest artificial still-water course in Japan and the rowing venue of the Tokyo Olympics.
SaitamaHistoric DistrictsChichibu
Hitsujiyama Park
High ground known for its moss phlox hill and its cherry trees, with the Mount Buko museum and the Yamato Art Museum.
SaitamaHistoric DistrictsOgano
Marukami Falls
The only waterfall in Saitama among Japan's hundred finest. It falls in three stages, a drop of 76 metres.
SaitamaStaysTokigawa
Dodaira Observatory (Center for the Creation of Stars and Greenery)
The National Astronomical Observatory's Dodaira station, converted into lodging, with log houses and Mongolian tents.
SaitamaHistoric DistrictsMinano
Tenku-no-Poppy (Poppies in the Sky)
About twelve million poppies on a slope 500 metres above sea level.
SaitamaFood & MarketsKazo
Kazo Mirai Hall
A planetarium with an 8K single-lens digital projector, and an observation room.
SaitamaHistoric DistrictsSatte
Morita Iron Works Gongendo Sakura Mirai Park
Some 1,000 Somei-Yoshino cherries along a kilometre of the Gongendo embankment in Satte, set above rape flowers below the bank.
SaitamaHistoric DistrictsIruma
Chanowa Tea Plantation Terrace
Opened in March 2023. Drink tea on a terrace set among the tea fields of the Sayama tea district.
SaitamaHistoric DistrictsKamisato
Kamisato Sunflower Field
In early August, sunflowers bloom across about 3,000 square metres.
SaitamaExperiencesKuki
Hyakukannon Onsen
A free-flowing spring that rises of its own pressure. Connected with the Tokugawa house, it adjoins a rebuilt Kannon hall that had been lost.
SaitamaHistoric Districts
SaitamaHistoric DistrictsKawagoe
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.
SaitamaHistoric DistrictsOgano
Onouchi Gorge
A gorge rising on Mount Ryokami. In January and February the Onouchi ice column, one of Chichibu's three great ice falls, is at its best.
SaitamaHistoric DistrictsSōka
Soka Matsubara, Scenic Site of Oku no Hosomichi
Twelve municipalities and thirteen places connected with Basho's Narrow Road to the Deep North were designated together as a national scenic site. This is one.
SaitamaHistoric DistrictsMiyashiro
Atarashii Mura
A centre on the theme of farming, with a farm stand, a cafe and a herb garden of about 100 species.
SaitamaExperiencesTokorozawa
Seibuen Amusement Park
An amusement park built around a shopping street modelled on the townscape of the 1960s.
SaitamaHistoric DistrictsKawaguchi
Kawaguchi Highway Oasis
Opened in April 2022. A motorway rest stop joined to the city's Iina Park Kawaguchi.