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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A motorway rest area recreating the Edo of Shotaro Ikenami's Onihei Hankacho, modelled on the row of stalls at Ryogoku Hirokoji.
Make a clay haniwa figure among the Saitama burial mounds. Shaping takes 90 to 120 minutes; firing takes about a month.
A picture drawn in a paddy with rice of four colours. About 1,000 people take part in the planting.
In the early Showa years more than 70 shops made sweets here; about 20 remain. One of the Environment Ministry's hundred fragrant landscapes.
A confectionery factory shop. Items with nothing wrong but their looks are sold as outlet stock.
A farm stand in Okegawa, which once ranked second in Japan for safflower production.
The outdoor hearths are roofed, so they work in rain. Order the food in advance and you need bring nothing.
A strong chloride spring along the Arakawa, combining day bathing, local cooking and a museum of Chichibu life.
A shop for Chichibu's produce and long-established specialities, stocking everyday goods as well as souvenirs.
In Angyo, a nursery district of some 400 years. Buy trees raised by local growers in the traditional way.
Run by Fueki Shoyu, founded in 1789. Tour the brewery and eat at a restaurant built around soy sauce.
A visitor hub beside the Kamisato smart interchange, gathering a farm stand, a patisserie and a strawberry farm.
Gelato and yoghurt made from milk fresh from the udder. The farm looks over the Arakawa, and you can meet the animals.
A 10.2-hectare roadside station with a farm stand, fields and a barbecue ground.
Eleven farms scattered on the south slope of Mount Hinata: strawberries from January, plums in summer, grapes in autumn.
A confectionery factory two minutes by car from the Hanazono interchange, built around baumkuchen, with outlet stock as well.
A joint project of Kadokawa and the city of Tokorozawa, bringing a museum, a library and an anime gallery together.
A Chichibu winery where you can tour the works and the vineyard and taste at the shop.
Sited with a view of Mount Buko. The free drinking fountain draws on the Urayama River and groundwater from the mountain.
A station under the banner of handmade paper and organic farming, with hands-on paper making, fans and paper lanterns.
A park recreating the Moomin house and bathing hut, with displays about the author Tove Jansson.
A lakeside place to meet Nordic living, with a market of homeware and crafts and boats for hire.
A park of about 158,000 square metres with 22 kinds of field athletics.
A fermentation theme park run by the pickle maker Pickles Corporation, serving dishes made with rice koji and lactic bacteria.