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Kitamoto Sun Amenity Camp Field

Kitamoto Camp Field and outdoor activity center

2021-04-03
By: Lynda (Elle)
On: 2021-04-03
In: Cherry blossoms, Outdoors in Saitama, Stay in Japan
With: 0 Comments

Sun Amenity Kitamoto Camp Field and outdoor activity center is ideal for an inexpensive camping experience. Just 500 yen for the night – one coin camping! Open all year round, but it is particularly scenic in spring with cherry blossoms and ‘hanadaikon’, a flowering plant similar to bluebells. Furthermore, theRead More →

Inside the Japanese style room at the EJ Anime hotel

EJ Anime Hotel, A New Type of Accommodation

2020-12-14
By: Lynda (Elle)
On: 2020-12-14
In: Best of Saitama, Stay in Japan
With: 0 Comments

EJ Anime Hotel opened within the “cool Japan”  Sakura Town Shin Tokorozawa in Autumn of 2020. The Sakura Town is a project by the Kadokawa Corporation- one of the largest publishing companies in Japan – and Tokorozawa city. Apart from books, mooks, magazines and manga, Kadokawa also produce games, animeRead More →

Jomine Park Campsite / Camping ground Saitama prefecture Japan

Jomine Park for a scenic camping trip

2020-11-07
By: Lynda (Elle)
On: 2020-11-07
In: Autumn in Saitama, Cherry blossoms, Stay in Japan, Things to see in Saitama
With: 2 Comments

Jomine Park (or Jyomine Park) on Mt Jomine, by Lake Kanna and the haunted Shimokubo dam in Kamikawa, Saitama on the border of Fujioka City, Gunma. Famed for its winter cherry blossoms that bloom at the same time as the autumn leaves… Jomine Park It was a dream come trueRead More →

Ryokami sanroku camping ground Ogano Chichibu

Ryokami Sanroku Camping Ground

2020-10-01
By: Lynda (Elle)
On: 2020-10-01
In: Outdoors in Saitama, Stay in Japan
With: 2 Comments

Ryokami Sanroku Camping Ground is an old style riverside camping ground with cabins, deep in a mountain valley and cocooned by forest. The campsite is an isolated area of Ogano that has for the most part escaped tourism development. I think it is the most remote location in Saitama thatRead More →

Arakawa BBQ Kawasemigawara Yorii

Kawasemi-gawara, Arakawa BBQ spot and campsite 2022

2020-08-14
By: Lynda (Elle)
On: 2020-08-14
In: Outdoors in Saitama, Stay in Japan, Summer in Saitama
With: 2 Comments

Kawasemi-gawara is the name of a BBQ spot and free cheap campsite by the Arakawa (Ara River) in Yorii, Saitama Prefecture. If you’ve ever been to the Saitama Museum of Rivers you will have seen it by the car park entrance to the river museum. You can also see itRead More →

Tsuchiuchi cacmping grounds and otaki ice festival chichibu

Tsuchiuchi Camping Grounds

2020-08-08
By: Lynda (Elle)
On: 2020-08-08
In: Night Illumination, Stay in Japan, Summer in Saitama, Things to see in Saitama
With: 2 Comments

Tsuchiuchi Camping Grounds is deep in a valley in the former Otaki village in Chichibu. Pitched on the staggered sides of the ravine, the camp and cabin grounds are hugged by beautiful forest on all sides. Natural moss grows thick on craggy rock with fresh water rolling over forming beautifulRead More →

Kinomura Camp Tokigawa

Kinomura Camp 2022 | TOKIGAWA

2020-07-08
By: Lynda (Elle)
On: 2020-07-08
In: Best of Saitama, In Season Now, Outdoors in Saitama, Stay in Japan
With: 2 Comments

This is one post I am particularly happy to be bringing you! We have been trying to stay at Kinomura Camp in Tokigawa for the last five years. However, as it is extremely popular we have never been able to secure a booking for a date we wanted. In 2020,Read More →

Greenpark Fukiware Numata Gunma Riverside Campsite

Riverside campsite Greenpark Fukiware

2020-05-15
By: Lynda (Elle)
On: 2020-05-15
In: Stay in Japan
With: 2 Comments

Greenpark Fukiware is a riverside and forest campsite near the Fukiware falls in Numata, Gunma. The geography and set up of the camping grounds make it suitable for all year round camping. In winter there is snow play, spring brings the cherry blossoms, summer water play and in Autumn theRead More →

golden week during a pandemic

Golden Week during a pandemic, 2021 in Japan

2020-04-23
By: L M N
On: 2020-04-23
In: Spring in Saitama, Stay in Japan, Things to do in Saitama, Travel / Outside Saitama
With: 1 Comment

Golden Week 2021 Golden Week is a group of public holidays that fall at the end of April to early May annually. During an average Golden Week (GW) the entire population of Japan gets out and about at some point during Golden Week. Many people travel from cities where theyRead More →

Santa House Santa Hills Nasu Tochigi insaitama.com

Santa Hills Campsite, where its Christmas all year round!

2019-12-21
By: Lynda (Elle)
On: 2019-12-21
In: Stay in Japan
With: 4 Comments

Santa House, Santa Hills, Tochigi – December 2019 For the last few years I have tried unsuccessfully to book a coveted spot in the Santa House in Santa Hills, Tochigi Prefecture. I have been determined, since discovering it while researching Santastic Tochigi in 2015, to stay in the Santa HouseRead More →

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