Information for Firefly viewing and daylilies during rainy season, at Chichibu Muse Park, Ogano Town, Chichibu District, Saitama Prefecture, Japan. Like many parks around Saitama Prefecture, you can see fireflies in Chichibu Muse Park in early summer. Moreover, they offer a supervised viewing event once a year. The date dependsRead More →
Furutone Gawa (Furotone River) Floating Lantern Festival – almost back to normal for the first time in four years! The festival was on in 2022, but it was a festival lite. This year, it is more like normal, however, there doesn’t seem to be fireworks again in 2023. Furutone FloatingRead More →
Information for the Tokorozawa Sunflowers / Sunflower Field and Festival also known as the Mikajima Sunflower fields or Himawari Batake 三ケ島ひまわり畑 in Japanese. Tokorozawa Sunflower Field and Festival There are approximately 20,000 sunflowers at the Tokorozawa Sunflower fields (Himawari Hatake). They are a hybrid variety. The Tokorozawa sunflowers generally bloomRead More →
Last year, the Kodama Summer Festival was on for the first time in three years. However, it was a very different festival to normal. This year it will be back to the pre-pandemic way… Kodama Summer Festival This annual “mikoshi” (portable shrine) festival occurs in the Kodama area of HonjoRead More →
Beautiful sunflowers in Hasuda City. Hasuda Sunflowers in 2023 Each year, “Himawari Ojiisan” (uncle sunflower) plants approximately 150,000 sunflowers at Lotus Farm in Hasuda City. They normally grow from around late July until early (possibly mid) August. In addition, they have a sunflower maze each year. You can check theRead More →
Ancient Lotus, Kodai Hasu No Sato, Gyoda. Mid June to early August. Kodai Hasu No Sato ~ Ancient Lotus Flower Park Kodai Hasu no Sato is a public park in Gyoda city. It was developed to showcase the ancient lotus that were found in the area a few years ago. BeforeRead More →
Urawa Yosakoi Festival was one of the few summer festivals that was on in 2022. This year, 2023, is the 18th annual occurrence of the festival. Urawa Yosakoi 2023 Urawa Yosakoi is just one of dozens of summer festivals held in Saitama City, the capital of Saitama Prefecture, every year.Read More →
Information for the Kawagoe Summer Festival, as it is often referred to in English, or Kawagoe Million Lights Summer Festival as it is called in Japanese. Kawagoe Million Lights Summer Festival This will be the 42nd annual Kawagoe Million Lights Summer Festival, or Kawagoe Summer Festival for short. Only 30Read More →
Iwatsuki Hisaizu “the peacock” Shrine is a very photogenic shrine and one of Saitama’s most prominent. Furthermore, it is the only one I know of with resident peacocks! Each year in summer, they have a beautiful wind chime display. Moreover, it starts a whole month before the famous wind chimesRead More →
There are several different lavender fields in Kuki City, mostly within the vicinity of City Hall Shobu Branch. Between them they grow three different type of lavender: Hidcote (English lavender), Lavandula Grosso (French lavender) and Lavandula stoechas (Spanish lavender). The site at Kuki City Hall, known as Lavender Street, growsRead More →