Ten (artificial) water play areas that are currently operating in Saitama in May 2022. The weather has really started to warm up this week. And its only going to get hotter! Thankfully, this year there is a better selection of water play areas than last year, when only a handfulRead More →
Bara no Komichi is an atelier and garden cafe in Ageo City in central Saitama. Bara is the Japanese for rose and Komichi means pathway or small passage. As you might guess from the name, the showpiece of the garden is its roses. But the garden and cafe are openRead More →
Tokigawa Town in the Hiki District of Saitama Prefecture is just over an hour from Tokyo. The town is famed for a rarer type of Iris; Iris Japonica or Butterfly flowers in English. However, there is also a small Iris garden in the town with the “hanashobu” variety of Iris:Read More →
June Saitama 2022~ the annual list of 15 things to do in June in Saitama! This post was adapted in 2021 for the “new normal”. As that is still the situation in 2022, the post reflects that. But the 2022 list has several new ideas, to keep the post freshRead More →
Ten rose gardens in Saitama Prefecture, commutable from Tokyo. The main period of bloom for roses in Saitama is the month of May. However, there are also autumn roses that bloom in October. In addition, there are winter roses too and even a few varieties that bloom out of theRead More →
Information for the Poppies and Nadeshiko flowers in May and the Cosmos in October at Konosu’s Cosmos Arena Fuikage. Cosmos Arena Fukiage On the flood lands of the Arakawa river, millions of flowers grow annually in front of the Cosmos Arena Fukiage. Cosmos Arena Fukiage is a municipal sports facilityRead 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 will takeRead More →
Laketown Boat park, formerly known as Dinghy Park Koshigaya, opened for the 2022 season on Sunday April 3rd. It also opened last year (2021) but due to the pandemic, you could only take out a dinghy on the lake. That is, the canoeing and kayaking experience were cancelled. However, thisRead More →
Rose Festival Yono 2022. It looks like the Yono Rose Festival will go ahead in 2022 after a three year hiatus due to the pandemic. Yono Park, where the festival is held, made quite a name for itself when they cut all the beautiful roses in the spring of 2020Read More →
Pinwheels Kawagoe – 風車・川越氷川神社。In 1922 Kawagoe City was inaugurated as the first ever city in Saitama Prefecture. Kawagoe Hikawa Shrine itself has been the heart and soul of Kawagoe for more than 1500 years. In celebration of the 100 anniversary the pinwheels are already up, much earlier than normal. Normally,Read More →