Besshonuma Park, Minami Ward, Saitama City – a great park for families all year round, with a lovely playground. It is particularly popular in Autumn when the trees around the lake are shades of yellow, orange, red and green. But the really does look very picturesque all year round.
Besshonuma Park Playground
Besshonuma Park is centrally located, only a 5 minute walk from Naka-Urawa Station on the Saikyo Line. You can also access it from Urawa Station which is on a number of lines (outlined in the access area below). The park can be reached from Ikebukuro or Shinjuku in about 30 minutes. One of the many attractions of the park is its design. The playground is well spread out and is encircled by trees, which give shade in the summer and protection from winds throughout the year. There are sun fun pieces of equipment and my kids really enjoyed this playground when they were small.
Attractions include (you will find some pictured in the library);
- Infant and toddler friendly playground equipment
- Vending machines
- A restaurant on site
- A wading stream during the summer
- Fishing
- Walking/jogging course
- Cherry blossoms
- Autumn foliage including gingko (and a carpet of yellow) and maple trees
- Free parking
Autumn in Besshonuma
I need to get some more photos of the park in Autumn, but as you can hopefully see in the feature photo at the top of the post, Bessho Numa is a really great spot for appreciating autumn colors. They have gingko trees and meta sequoia trees that gleam shades of yellow and orange. The fountains in the pond really adds to the aesthetic. But these trees don’t just look beautiful in autumn, they also look pretty in summer and at night too:
Kawazuzakura
Besshonuma has a beautiful kawazu cherry blossom. In 2024, reportedly it had already started blooming by February 17th. The photo below was taken when it was near full bloom in 2020, also in February.
Bessho Numa Park Information
Access
Besshonuma park is a five minute walk from JR Saikyo Line’s Naka Urawa Station. You can also walk from JR Urawa Station on the Keihin Tohoku, Utsunomiya, Takasaki and Shonan Shinjuku Lines. It takes about 20 minutes on foot from those stations. There is a very small – hard to get in and out of – parking lot!
TEL: 048-711-2290
ADDRESS: 4 Bessho, Minami-ku, Saitama 336-0021
Official website
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