SaitamaArchitectureKawagoe
Toki no Kane Bell Tower
A wooden bell tower rebuilt four times since the 1600s, still ringing four times a day.
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SaitamaArt & CraftsKawagoe
Kawagoe City Art Museum
Keeps a room for Kyuichiro Aihara, a Kawagoe native who spent his life painting Hokkaido.
SaitamaArt & CraftsWarabi
Kawanabe Kyosai Memorial Museum
A small museum in the family home of Kawanabe Kyosai, overwhelming in its sheer volume of his sketches.
SaitamaMuseumsKawajima
Toyama Memorial Museum
A financier built this for his mother, gathering materials and craftsmen nationwide; all 23 rooms differ in design.
SaitamaArt & CraftsHigashimatsuyama
Maruki Gallery for the Hiroshima Panels
A husband and wife spent 32 years on these panels; they hang in a riverside house-like gallery the couple built.
SaitamaArchitectureKumagaya
Menuma Shodenzan
Called the Nikko of Saitama; its carved and repainted main hall is a National Treasure.
SaitamaMuseumsGyoda
Sakitama Burial Mounds
A sword inlaid with 115 gold characters - the single most important written object of fifth-century Japan.
SaitamaArchitectureGyoda
Tabi Storehouses of Gyoda
A town that once made 80 percent of Japan's tabi socks; over 80 of its storehouses survive.
SaitamaArt & CraftsChichibu
Chichibu Meisen
Dye is printed straight onto the warp, so the pattern reads identically on both faces of the cloth.
SaitamaArt & CraftsChichibu
Carvings of Chichibu Shrine
Carvings wrap all four walls, including a dragon and tiger attributed to the legendary Hidari Jingoro.
SaitamaArt & CraftsChichibu
Chichibu Night Festival Floats
Ten-tonne floats hauled up a steep slope; their carvings and hangings are craft objects in motion.
SaitamaMuseumsTokorozawa
Kadokawa Culture Museum
Kengo Kuma clad it in 20,000 irregular granite slabs; at its heart is a theatre walled in eight-metre bookshelves.
SaitamaArchitectureFukaya
Seishido and Seifutei
Built for Shibusawa Eiichi's 77th birthday in local brick, its interior threaded with Asian motifs.
SaitamaArchitectureFukaya
Fukaya Station
The town that supplied Tokyo Station's bricks rebuilt its own station in Tokyo Station's image.
SaitamaArt & CraftsOgawa
Ogawa Washi and Hosokawa Paper
Paper made from kozo alone, supplying Edo for centuries; the technique is UNESCO Intangible Heritage.
SaitamaArt & CraftsHigashichichibu
Higashichichibu Washi Village
Where Hosokawa paper is made, showing the whole process from boiling the bark to drying the sheet.
SaitamaArt & CraftsKawaguchi
Kawaguchi Ironware
Casting everything from Toshogu lanterns to cooking pots; its forest of cupola furnaces became a film subject.
SaitamaContemporary ArtKawaguchi
Kawaguchi Art Gallery Atlia
Exhibition and studio under one roof, giving the old foundry town a contemporary art base.
SaitamaMuseumsKawaguchi
SKIP City Visual Museum
A museum where visitors make images rather than only watch them, and home to an international film festival.
SaitamaArchitecture
SaitamaArt & CraftsKasukabe
Kasukabe Paulownia Chests
Said to have begun when craftsmen who came to build Nikko Toshogu started production in Kasukabe, a paulownia-growing area. A national traditional craft.
SaitamaArt & CraftsKōnosu
Konosu Hina Doll Festival
A doll-making town of 380 years, stacking 1,800 dolls on a seven-metre tier.
SaitamaArt & CraftsSaitama
Iwatsuki Dolls
Faces built up in layers of shell white over paulownia paste, a trade traced to the Toshogu craftsmen.
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.
Hakodate Hachimangu · Shrine
Koryuji · Temple