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 →
Le Jardin Secret is a stunning rose garden at a private residence in Kumagaya City. According to the owner there are approximately 1200 roses and many other flowers in the garden. Each year at the end of spring and start of summer, they have a “rose festival”. During the periodRead More →
Kaigara Cafe in Johnson Town, aka Little America, is an instagrammable cafe all year round, but particularly when they put up their mini umbrella sky. According to the official Instagram account the cafe was modeled on a sea theme. Thus the cafe is decorated in shades of blue with shellfishRead More →
Information for the 2023 Kuki Shobu Poppy Festival, which is on for the first time since 2019. Kuki Shobu Poppy Festival The Poppy Festival is on annually in May in the Shobu area of Kuki City. However, it was not on at all during the pandemic. Moreover, like Kinchakuda andRead More →
Information for the Boys’ Love exhibition at the Edit and Art Gallery in the Kadokawa Musashino Museum¹, in Tokorozawa Sakura Town, in Summer 2023. Like all exhibitions at Kadokawa Museum, they recommend that you purchase a ticket in advance, particularly for a weekend. Boys’ Love Exhibition An exhibition dedicated toRead More →
A special Baki the Grappler exhibition is coming to the Kadokawa Culture Museum in Tokorozawa Sakura Town this summer. The anniversary exhibition started in Tokyo Dome City in April last year (2022) and due to its mammoth success is coming to Saitama on Saturday May 27th 2023. The exhibition isRead More →
Takinoiri is a countryside area in Moroyama Town in the Iruma-gun of Saitama Prefecture. This remote rural scenic town is only about an hour from North West Tokyo by car. Unfortunately, by public transport it is a little trickier to get to and takes considerably longer. However, if you wantRead 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 →
Ten FREE (artificial) water play areas that are open this Golden Week (2023) in Saitama Prefecture. You will will also find even more water play areas in the free map in this post. Thankfully, this year there is a better selection of water play areas than last year. And muchRead More →