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 →
Togo Park is renowned for being one of the best places for autumn leaf colors, particularly maple, in Saitama Prefecture. There are approximately 1000 maple trees at Togo Park. Each year, during the season, there is a Maple Festival in the park. Togo Park (Tōgō Park) Maple Festival In autumn,Read More →
This coming Labor thanksgiving day, Fujimi city with have six events in total. They always have several events on Labor Thanksgiving day because it usually falls on November 23rd annually. Playing on the Japanese Kanji for November 23rd, they read 11.23 as ‘ii fujimi’, meaning good fujimi! Of the eventsRead More →
Torii Kannon is one of the most famous fall foliage spots in Saitama Prefecture. Moreover, it is also one of the official top 100 tourist attractions of Saitama Prefecture. The leaves at the kannon usually start to change around mid October, but lucky for us, they are late this year.Read More →
This year Shiraoka will have their first ever “Autumn Colors Festa”. It is an upgrade of a two events that they used to have around this time of year, before the pandemic. Neither festival was on for the last four years, so they decided to invent a new large scaleRead More →
Inaho Terrace is on the grounds of the Saitama Central Japan Agriculture (JA) Higashimatsuyama South Branch, a farmer’s market among the rice fields. Its quite a nice farmer’s market with a range of fruit, vegetable, local and fresh produce such as eggs. On one day annually they hold an agriculturalRead More →
I really love red buckwheat flowers. Although, one could argue they are pink rather than red! There are a few places you can see red buckwheat in Saitama Prefecture, but perhaps the best known area for them is in Kuki city. There is a large red buckwheat field in theRead More →
Information for the 27th annual Chichibu Arakawa New Soba Festival. The popular annual festival is held in a very scenic part of Chichibu, with a 1.1 hectare buckwheat field. The festival was cancelled between 2020 and 2022 due to you know what, so this is the first time the festivalRead More →
The Irumagawa Winter Festival is on annually in November, on the day that Sayama Illumination is switched on. The festival is on for just one day, but the illumination is on for about seven weeks. Irumagawa winter festival Before the pandemic, this festival had a website of its own withRead More →