SaitamaHistoric DistrictsHidaka
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.
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SaitamaHistoric Districts
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 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 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.
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.
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 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 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 DistrictsKamisato
Konohana Park Kamisato
A visitor hub beside the Kamisato smart interchange, gathering a farm stand, a patisserie and a strawberry farm.
SaitamaHistoric DistrictsToda
Saiko Doman Green Park
A park along Sailake, a regulating basin of the Arakawa. Grassland where primroses bloom has been restored.
SaitamaHistoric DistrictsSugito
Agri Park Yumesugito
A 10.2-hectare roadside station with a farm stand, fields and a barbecue ground.
SaitamaHistoric DistrictsOgawa
Roadside Station Ogawa-machi
A station under the banner of handmade paper and organic farming, with hands-on paper making, fans and paper lanterns.
SaitamaHistoric DistrictsHonjō
Marigold Hill Park
From the hilltop you see Mount Akagi and Mount Haruna. Moss phlox in spring, sunflowers in summer, marigolds in autumn.
SaitamaHistoric DistrictsOgawa
Mount Sengen Miharashi-no-Oka Park
Partway up 299-metre Mount Sengen, with a roller slide 203 metres long.
Misato, Saitama
OGISHI Misato Park
Lawns and large wooden play structures. Moss phlox in spring, irises in June. You can fish in the Koaidameoi.
SaitamaHistoric DistrictsKawaguchi
Kawaguchi City Green Center
A park of about 158,000 square metres with 22 kinds of field athletics.
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 DistrictsMinano
Tenku-no-Poppy (Poppies in the Sky)
About twelve million poppies on a slope 500 metres above sea level.
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 DistrictsMiyashiro
Atarashii Mura
A centre on the theme of farming, with a farm stand, a cafe and a herb garden of about 100 species.
SaitamaHistoric DistrictsKawaguchi
Kawaguchi Highway Oasis
Opened in April 2022. A motorway rest stop joined to the city's Iina Park Kawaguchi.
SaitamaHistoric DistrictsKōnosu
Hana-no-Oasis (Flower Oasis)
A park at Teraya, where flower growing in Konosu began. Some 40,000 tulips bloom in spring.
SaitamaHistoric DistrictsGyoda
Gyoda City Mizushiro Park
A park laid out from the moat and marsh of Oshi Castle, with a public square, a garden and a koi pond.