Lynda Hogan is a long term resident of Saitama Prefecture and has been promoting Saitama Prefecture voluntarily for the last 17 years. Lynda is an official Hikijin ambassador representing the seven towns of the Hiki District as well as Higashimatsuyama City and Higashichichibu Village. She has appeared on NHK Cool Japan's Saitama specials. She is also an administrator on the 100,000+ member strong Japan Travel Friendly Discussion Group Facebook Group. Formerly she was the Saitama representative of the Association of Foreign Wives of Japan. She is currently a level 9 Google Local Guide, in the top 1% of local guides in all of Japan according to Google. Lynda is a long term contributor to Kyodo News Corporation’s City-cost.com website and also writes for several other travel websites, too. If you would like to work with Lynda, please drop a comment on any post or contact her here (please note due to the large volume of queries received, it is quicker to write a comment on a blog post for a prompt response) -
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The Ogano Gun Festival will be on in 2023 for the first time in four years. Amidst all the culturally appropriated Christmas events of December is this unique and traditional gun festival in Ogano, Chichibu. Chichibu has hundreds of festivals throughout the year and this one is informally known asRead More →
Information for the illumination and ‘White Christmas’ Market, with Santa Claus, at Misato Chuo Niodori Park. Niodori Park is known for hosting some great events throughout the year. It is a popular spot for families. The illumination is an annual event at the park, one of at least two illuminationRead More →
Information for the fourth annual winter illumination display at Tokorozawa Sakura Town. This year they are just calling it “Sakura town winter light up”. It is later to start than any other year and will be on for a shorter period this winter, 2023 – 2024. Tokorozawa Sakura Town TokorozawaRead More →
Numakage Ice Rink – Each year, the summer pool in Numakage park, Minami Ward, is transformed into an outdoor ice rink during the winter months. However, the 2023 – 2024 season will be the last ever as the ice rink / pool is scheduled to be demolished at the endRead More →
Misato Illumination will be turned on this weekend, on Saturday. They will have a switch on event on that first night, December 2nd 2023. This illumination runs right until the middle of March, to White Day, which is later than most. On average, even the larger illumination events end onRead More →
Honjo City, in the North of Saitama Prefecture, has new illumination in 2023, in addition and near to the annual Marigold Hill illumination. Furthermore, they will also have a Christmas market on two days during the illumination period. They will have workshops too. All for free.Read More →
Back in June I shared information for the first Joylife! Art and Organic festival, thinking it was an one off event. It was so successful, with more than 3000 visitors, that since September the Amazing college now leases the grounds for events at the weekends. Joylife is the biggest eventRead More →
Chichibu Illuminate, Gran Chichibu Illumination at Seibu Chichibu Station and Matsuri no Yu hot spring, in the winter of 2023 – 2024. There is a saying in Saitama that Chichibu has a festival every day of the year. But despite having hundreds of festivals, Chichibu was actually lacking in nightRead More →
Each year, in “Happy Town Satte”, members of the International Exchange Association create a Flower Carpet by placing flower petals one by on on a large canvas on the ground. Moreover, anyone is welcome to join and create the flower art. This year the image is a famous spring scene.Read More →
A beautiful bamboo light exhibition event starts in Honjo tonight, Wednesday November 22nd 2023. They have a bamboo light event like this each May too. Bamboo Light Exhibition The ‘BAM’ club of Waseda University organize these annual bamboo light exhibitions. They produced this November’s event with the cooperation of membersRead More →