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 →
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 →
Since the start of 2023, this page showcases events by month. Below you will find a round up of the events on this May in Saitama Prefecture. Moreover, I add new events all the time, so please do pop back every now and then. Each event is linked to a pageRead More →
A tunnel of color in Saitama Prefecture! I wrote this post about the pinwheel display that started in March, but the pinwheels were replaced by beautiful paper lanterns of various colors on April 24th. They will be on display now, due to popular demand, until the end of May. ThereRead More →
Fukiage Poppy Festival is just one part of the annual Konosu Flower Festival. The Fukiage area of Konosu became quite famous this year after the Fukiage cherry blossoms went viral. The poppies are in a different area , along the Arakawa. They are just one of two poppy fields inRead More →
Water sliders / Water Fes at Sayama Skiing Grounds in 2023. Since the Sayama Indoor Skiing Ground reopened in Autumn 2020 there have been quite a few changes. The best, in my humble opinion, is that they have found a fun way to make use of the indoor ski slopesRead More →
Every now and then somebody will tell me of a new-to-me spot in Saitama Prefecture. Occasionally, its my husband! Yesterday, while looking up something up entirely different on the net, he came across a newspaper article about a relatively new azalea spot. The article was on Saitama Shinbun, which everyRead More →
During the pandemic the hot air balloon ride at Tokorozawa Aviation Memorial Park was cancelled so often, I temporarily moved the information to the venue post. Now that things are going back to normal, its time to give it its own event post again. Before I merged the event andRead More →
Information for the 2023 Azalea Festival at Monomiyama Park (aka Monomi Hill) in Higashimatsuyama. Monomiyama Park is located near to Saitama Children’s Zoo and is home to the Peace Museum of Saitama. The tower you can see peaking out above the azalea in the featured photo is that of theRead More →