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Railway Museum
The Railway Museum
You get in through an automatic ticket gate, exactly like a station, which is the first joke and ...
Kawagoe
Kawagoe - Little Edo
Known as 'Little Edo', Kawagoe rebuilt its merchant street in fireproof clay after an 1893 fire, ...
Musashi Kyuryo National Government Park
Musashi Kyuryo National Government Park sprawls across the hills of Saitama, famous for its displ...
Nagatoro
River Gorge and Autumn Foliage Haven
Scenic river gorge along the Arakawa River featuring thrilling boat rides through rapids, dramati...
Chichibu
Chichibu is a mountain town famous for its December night festival with towering floats, a 34-tem...
Toki no Kane Bell Tower
The Toki no Kane bell tower has been marking time in Kawagoe for over 350 years, its wooden tower...
Hikawa Shrine
Musashi Ichinomiya Hikawa Shrine
Hikawa Shrine in Saitama claims over 2,400 years of history, making it one of Japan's oldest Shin...
Moomin Valley Park
Moomin Theme Park on the Shore of Lake Miyazawa
A theme park on the wooded shore of Lake Miyazawa in Hanno devoted to Tove Jansson's Moomins, rec...
Mitsumine Shrine
A Wolf-Guarded Shrine at 1,100 Meters, 80 Minutes by Bus Beyond Chichibu
A mountain shrine at about 1,100 meters in the far west of Chichibu, where wolves stand in for th...
Tobu Zoo
White tigers and a wooden coaster in one Saitama park
A zoo and amusement park rolled into one, about an hour from Tokyo on the Tobu line: around 120 a...
Seibuen Yuenchi
A 1960s Showa shopping street and a Godzilla ride in Tokorozawa
An old Seibu Railway amusement park that reopened in May 2021 as a full Showa-era set piece: a re...
Michi-no-Eki Ogawamachi
Handmade washi and organic farm food in Ogawa
A Route 254 roadside station built around the Saitama Traditional Crafts Hall, reopened in May 20...
Michi-no-Eki Kaju Koen Ashigakubo
Chichibu noodles next to the Ashigakubo icicles
A Route 299 stop right beside Ashigakubo Station on the Seibu Chichibu Line, so you can reach it ...