SaitamaContemporary ArtSōka
Soka Matsubara
A kilometre and a half of pines along the old Nikko highway, walked by Basho and now a Place of Scenic Beauty.
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SaitamaContemporary Art
SaitamaMuseumsYorii
Saitama Museum of Rivers
Home to one of Japan's largest wooden waterwheels, telling the land's story through its rivers.
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.
SaitamaMuseumsTokorozawa
Tokorozawa Aviation Museum
On the site of Japan's first airfield, tracing how aircraft form changed through real machines.
SaitamaArchitectureHidaka
Koma Shrine and District
A district settled by refugees from Goguryeo; the thatched Koma house still stands.
SaitamaArt & CraftsYoshimi
Yoshimi Hyakuana
Two hundred and nineteen tomb chambers honeycombing a tuff hillside - a burial ground with the force of a landscape.
Kumagaya
Kumagaya Dyeing
Dyeing that grew on the Arakawa river, keeping both stencil work and hand-painted yuzen.
SaitamaArchitectureSaitama
Omiya Hikawa Approach
A two-kilometre approach, among Japan's longest, forming a green axis through the modern city.
SaitamaMuseumsHonjō
Honjo Waseda Museum
Jointly run by a university and a city, sharing the work of storage and display.
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.
Hanno
Nishikawa Timber of Hanno
Timber rafted down to Edo from these hills; sawmills and woodworkers still shape the town.
SaitamaArt & CraftsOkegawa
Safflower of Ageo and Okegawa
Second only to Mogami as a safflower district, sending rouge dye to Edo; the merchants' storehouses remain.
SaitamaArchitectureWarabi
Warabi Post Town
A post town on the Nakasendo, its street plan still legible in the surviving townhouses.
SaitamaContemporary ArtIruma
Sayama Tea Fields
Tea rows follow the contours like drawn lines - geometry produced by agricultural logic.
SaitamaArt & CraftsTokigawa
Joinery of Tokigawa
A joinery town whose craftsmen now fit out public buildings with local timber.
SaitamaContemporary ArtMisato, Saitama
Waterways of Misato and Yashio
The rivers that fed Edo; their dykes and sluices still divide the flat landscape.
SaitamaExperiencesSakado
Meiji Naruhodo Factory Sakado
Watch the production lines for chocolate bars and Apollo sweets.
SaitamaFood & MarketsSaitama
Glicopia East
Glico's factory in Kitamoto. It shows the process by which Pocky and Pretz are made.
SaitamaFood & MarketsSaitama
Akagi Nyugyo Honjo Senbonzakura 5S Factory
A frozen confection factory in Honjo. It makes Garigari-kun. The 5S in the factory's name comes from a slogan for tidiness and order.
SaitamaFood & MarketsSaitama
Lotte Urawa Plant
A confectionery factory in Urawa. It makes chocolate sweets and ice cream.
SaitamaFood & MarketsSaitama
Lotte Sayama Plant
A confectionery factory in Sayama. It deals with confectionery manufacturing technology.
SaitamaCraft ExperiencesSaitama
Nakamuraya Chukaman Museum
The Chinese steamed bun factory in Iruma. You can tour the process of wrapping the filling in dough.