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Futase Dam
Futase Dam in Chichibu. An arch dam that serves flood control and power generation.
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Urayama Dam
Urayama Dam in Chichibu. It is a gravity concrete dam, and you can tour inside the dam body and descend by elevator.
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Takizawa Dam
Takizawa Dam in Chichibu. Together with the loop bridge downstream, it created a road over the mountains.
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Saitama Museum of Natural History
Displays the fossils of the giant shark Carcharodon megalodon and of the sea mammal Paleoparadoxia.
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Saitama Prefectural Museum of the Sakitama Ancient Burial Mounds
The Sakitama museum in Gyoda. It holds the gold-inlaid inscribed iron sword excavated from the Inariyama burial mound.
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Iruma City Museum ALIT
A museum in Iruma. With Sayama tea as its theme, it covers local industry.
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Shibusawa Eiichi Memorial Museum
The Shibusawa Eiichi Memorial Museum in Fukaya. It tells of the man who was involved in founding more than 500 companies.
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Former Shibusawa Residence Nakanchi
The former Shibusawa residence in Fukaya. The family home where he was born remains and conveys the life of a modern industrialist.
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Former Brick Manufacturing Facility Hoffmann Ring Kiln
The site of a brick factory in Fukaya. A Hoffmann ring kiln remains, and the bricks for Tokyo Station were fired here.
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Chichibu Railway SL Paleo Express
The steam locomotive of Chichibu Railway. A C58 runs between Kumagaya and Mitsumineguchi.
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Tobu Railway Minami-Kurihashi Rolling Stock Depot
A rolling stock depot of Tobu Railway. It carries out the inspection and maintenance of trains.
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Saitama City Sakura Environmental Center
The environmental center in Saitama. It handles waste processing and resource circulation.
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Saiko Nature Learning Center
Lake Saiko in Toda. A retarding basin of the Arakawa River, it serves as a place for environmental education.
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Hanyu Service Area (Inbound), Onihei Edo-dokoro
A motorway rest area recreating the Edo of Shotaro Ikenami's Onihei Hankacho, modelled on the row of stalls at Ryogoku Hirokoji.
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Kinchakuda Higanbana Park
A flat of about 500 metres across, made by a bend in the Koma River. The name comes from its purse-like shape. Known for red spider lilies in autumn.
SaitamaHistoric DistrictsKazo
Three Prefecture Border
Where Tochigi, Gunma and Saitama meet in the middle of a rice paddy. Work on the Watarase River moved the point from the water onto land.
SaitamaHistoric DistrictsChichibu
Banba-dori
The stone-paved approach from Ohanabatake Station to Chichibu Shrine, where some registered cultural-property buildings still trade as shops.
SaitamaHistoric DistrictsNagatoro
Nagatoro gorge (Nagatoro Iwadatami) River Cruise
A boat ride between rock shelves that are a special national natural monument. In winter the boats carry heated tables.
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.
SaitamaHistoric DistrictsTokorozawa
Lake Sayama
A reservoir completed in 1934. Formally the Yamaguchi Reservoir, it was built to supply Tokyo with water.
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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.