A long term resident of Saitama Prefecture
Information for the 2023 Nanbata Castle Park festival, which was previously called the Musket Shooting AND park festival. If you missed a chance to meet some ‘Samurai’ at the Yorii Hojo Festival, never fear! There is another opportunity coming up in early June at the Nanbata Castle Park. Each yearRead More →
They cancelled the Koshigaya Fireworks three years in a row (2020 – 2022) due to the pandemic. But this year, they are on! Koshigaya Fireworks 2023 The date for the 2023 Koshigaya fireworks has been set as Saturday July 29th. This event attracts about 250,000 spectators annually. It is theRead More →
The beloved Kasukabe Eisa festival – a taste of Okinawa in Saitama in 2023. The Kasukabe Eisa Festival was cancelled in both 2020 and 2021 due to the pandemic. However, it was on in 2022. Moreover, throughout the pandemic, they aired live performances for all to enjoy. There is nothingRead More →
The Saitama Shintoshin Water Fight Festival and World Festa is one of the summer holiday highlights! It attracts a large number of visitors each year. Approximately 60,000 people participated in the 2019 event. The event was cancelled for three years in a row during the pandemic (2020 to 2022) andRead More →
Information for the 62nd annual Yorii Hojo festival; reenacting a famous samurai battle. The hugely famous Yorii Hojo Festival was actually on in 2022. But, it was a very hush hush affair with nothing publicized online in advance of the festival. On the day of the festival there was aRead More →
Information for the annual Ogose Festival, a summer festival held annually in Ogose Town, in the Iruma District of Saitama Prefecture, Japan. It may seem early to be posting about summer festivals, but summer is only three weeks away! The last time the Ogose festival was on was in 2019.Read More →
2023 information for the Hydrangea Festival at Satte Gongendo Park. Since the dawn of Instagram Satte Gongendo Park has become one of the most famous and popular places to see hydrangea flowers not just in Saitama Prefecture, but in the Greater Tokyo Area. Before the pandemic their hydrangea festival wasRead More →
Information for Saitama’s largest rose garden at Ina Memorial Park and biannual rose festivals. The spring rose festival in Ina surprisingly went ahead in 2021 despite a stay at home directive. It was one of the few Rose festivals on in 2021. So no surprises that the festival was onRead More →
For the first time in four years the Chichibu Poppy Festival is set to go ahead. It was set to go ahead in 2021 too and then the day before the festival was due to start they had to cancel it! It is highly unlikely that will happen in 2023.Read More →
Kasukabe City is probably best known as being the home of the fictional anime character Crayon Shinchan. However, wisteria lovers will also know it to be the home of the famous wisteria of Ushijima (Tokaen). Apart from Tokaen though, Kasukabe has a wisteria street “Kasukabe Fuji Doori”, where they haveRead More →