2025 Saitama Prefecture Travel Guide: Must-see attractions, popular food, hotels, transportation routes (updated in February)

#ancienttownvibes Kawagoe, located in Saitama Prefecture, is a charming city known as “Little Edo” for its well-preserved Edo-period atmosphere. The Kurazukuri Street is its highlight, featuring traditional clay-walled warehouses transformed into shops and cafés. The iconic Toki no Kane (Time Bell Tower) chimes throughout the day, adding to the nostalgic ambiance. Visitors can explore the vibrant Kashiya Yokocho (Candy Alley), offering traditional sweets and snacks. Kawagoe also boasts stunning temples and shrines, such as Kawagoe Hikawa Shrine, famous for its romantic matchmaking charms. Easily accessible from Tokyo, it’s a perfect day trip destination blending history, culture, and delicious local delicacies.

📍Address: 1 Chome-32-20 Hanaguri, Sōka, Saitama 340-0044, Japan https://maps.google.com?q=Coco's%20Restaurant,%201%20Chome-32-20 ⏰Hours: Open daily, 24 hours This breakfast buffet-style restaurant offers a wide variety of breakfast options. They have coffee and matcha dispensers, with the matcha being rich, not too sweet, and very delicious. The restaurant has plenty of seating and is open 24 hours, allowing you to enjoy a diverse range of food at any time.

I'm from Saitama and I'd like to introduce you to some great spots in Saitama that are easily accessible from Tokyo! ① Kawagoe Hikawa Shrine The matchmaking wind chimes held in the summer. The wind chimes hanging all over the place and the sound they make swaying in the wind are a sight you should see at least once! There are also cute fortune slips and charms, and you'll want to buy them all♪ Outside of the summer, there are also cute decorations such as windmills. We recommend renting a yukata and taking a walk in Kawagoe! 📍2-11-3 Miyashita-cho, Kawagoe-shi, Saitama 350-0052 There is paid parking and restrooms nearby. ②③ Chichibu Muse Park Of course, it's a place you can enjoy during the day, but it's also recommended at night! If you look at the night sky for a long time, your eyes will get used to it and you will see a thin, cloud-like band. That's the Milky Way! It looks thin to the naked eye, but you can see it clearly on camera! Also, if the weather conditions are right, you can see a sea of ​​clouds! This is one of the famous spots for viewing sea of ​​clouds♪ There is a parking lot, vending machines, and restrooms, so you can rest assured! Please watch your step if you go out at night. 📍2518 Nagatome, Ogano-machi, Chichibu-gun, Saitama 368-0102 Free parking, restrooms, and vending machines available ④ Tove Jansson Akebono Children's Forest Park When it comes to "Moomin" in Saitama, Metsa Village is also popular, but this one is also recommended! It's not a theme park, but it's a park full of calm nature♪ There are buildings and mechanisms filled with the world of Moomin, so it's sure to be fun if you go with children! There is also a large parking lot and restrooms! It's a spot that can be enjoyed all year round, such as in the seasons of fresh greenery and autumn leaves! 📍893-1 Asu, Hanno City, Saitama Prefecture, 357-0046 Free parking and restrooms available ⑤Poppies in the sky The poppies that bloom all over the mountains of Chichibu are a vast flower field that connects to the sky! When they are in full bloom, temporary parking lots and buses are available, so you can rest assured. There are also local gourmet food stalls, so you can enjoy delicious food! The flowering season starts around mid-May, but it changes depending on the year, so please check it out. The footing is unstable on the mountain, so we recommend wearing comfortable shoes! 📍Misawa, Minano-machi, Chichibu-gun, Saitama Prefecture, 369-1411 There is a paid temporary parking lot during the event, and temporary toilets are available. Thank you for reading to the end😊 #domestictrip #saitama #kawagoe #chichibu

Saitama Prefecture's Kumagaya Sakura Tsutsumi is a representative cherry blossom forest in Saitama Prefecture. During the blooming season, 500 Yoshino cherry trees blossom simultaneously, covering the 2-kilometer riverbank. When the cherry blossoms are in full bloom, the contrast of the canola flowers beneath the cherry trees, the pink cherry blossoms, and the azure sky in the background has been attracting locals to enjoy the view since the Edo period (200-400 years ago). It's a 5-minute walk from Kumagaya Station, making it easily accessible from the Kanto region. During the annual cherry blossom festival, there is also a magical illumination event from 18:00 to 21:00.

I took advantage of the holiday to ride the Chichibu Railway to Nagatoro for a river trip to see the rock formations in mid-April, then went to the Shibazakura Hill at Hitsujiyama Park in Chichibu's Makkaji area. Chichibu also has a whisky distillery, and the Chichibu Shrine features richly colored carvings. This trip was a very satisfying nature journey, during which I also enjoyed a variety of delicious foods. The hotels there are affordable, grateful!

#2024wish It is located in a quiet residential area opposite Omiya Park. It's a small building that used to be the residence of Kitazawa Rakuten, a cartoonist from the Meiji period. Admission is free. And there exhibits related to manga, obviously lol Although it was small in scale, there were many things to see. If you have time, you can stay for at least an hour. There were other artists' works on display, including a picture of a monster called Amabie. I wish I could start reading manga.

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The most famous of the daylight is the Toshogu Shrine. After six years of research, as of 1991, people have a general understanding of this temple. The temple is shared, and 29 of them are decorated with various styles of engraving patterns, which have a total of 5,147 styles. After understanding the results of the above research, many tourists realized that their browsing time in Toshogu was too short. In the era of the shogunate's rule, it took a few days from the capital Edo (now Tokyo) to the daylight ox cart. How was this place selected as the tomb of Tokugawa Ieyasu, which is itself a story. Indeed, daylight is like a crown embedded in the northern part of the Kanto Plain. Edo happens to be the center of the crown. However, Jiakang is a Kansai and not a Kanto. The reason why he was building a capital in Kanto was mainly to avoid the power of the Western Kyoto Emperor. This power was conquered by his original power. Jia Kang's grandson Jiaguang (1604~1651) After 20 years of death, Tokugawa Ieyasu decided to incorporate this remote area into the hereditary territory of Tokugawa. In fact, Tokugawa Ieyasu and his successor Tokugawa Ikebukuro and the 250-year-old Tokugawa shogunate and sons of the Tokugawa shogunate and at least three times a year to make three pilgrimages, worship the founding of a generation of dynasties and make the Japanese people General Tokugawa, who has been isolated from the outside world for more than two centuries. tips: When you buy a ticket near the Asakusa Temple in Tokyo, remember to arrive. Remember to go before 9:00, there will be a waiter who can speak Chinese. The timetable changes at any time.