Jomine Park in the unassuming Kamikawa Town in the North of Saitama is one of Japan’s most famous winter cherry blossoms spots. Moreover, it is one of only a handful of places in Japan where you can see red maple leaves and cherry blossoms at the same time. Normally, theRead More →
Information for the next exhibition at Kadokawa Culture Museum; Dengeki Bunko 30th Anniversary Exhibition. A special Dengeki Bunko exhibition will start on Saturday at the Kadokawa Culture Museum in Tokorozawa Sakura Town. The exhibition will feature a special gallery of illustrations. In addition, they will also have autograph sessions withRead More →
The Iwatsuki Night Market is on again this year. The official name is Iwatsuki Midsummer Night Market. Although, the temperatures are almost as hot as summer, the summer season is officially over! The reason they use ‘midsummer’ is sort of like a good luck charm. They had the event inRead More →
In celebration of twenty years since the inauguration of Saitama City, the city will host a fireworks display this Autumn. さいたま市政令指定都市20周年記念花火大会。 Saitama City Anniversary Fireworks In celebration of 20 years of Saitama City, you can view a beautiful fireworks display, by the Arakawa this October. Due to location of theRead More →
Shinrin Park (aka Musashi Kyuryo National Government Park) confirmed earlier this week that they will have their Halloween night in the Forest again this year. They had it in between 2020 and 2022 too, for the record, despite the pandemic. And I for one was very grateful we were ableRead More →
The Soka Yosakoi and Samba Festival Soka is back in 2023. However, this year it will be on in Autumn, not summer. A much better time for it in my personal opinion. I don’t know how those dancers normally survive a day of dancing in elaborate costumes in the heatRead More →
Usually there is a Misato Summer Festival with fireworks annually in the second half of August, generally on a Friday. However, due to the pandemic, there has been no summer festival and no fireworks since 2019. But in 2023, they will have a fireworks for the first time in fourRead More →
Moominvalley Park Harvest 2023 in the Moomin theme park at Metsa, Hanno, Saitama. This year the theme is ‘apples’. Moominvalley Park Harvest 2023 The Harvest event at Moominvalley Park was started during the pandemic, in the autumn of 2020. I donned it a balloon sky, as the Harvest displays areRead More →
Gongendo park is one of the three principal places to see higanbana, aka red spider lilies, in Saitama Prefecture and one of the bigger spider lily festival locations. It is one of my personal favorite spots for higanbana in Saitama Prefecture. Hopefully the picture below, which I took during theRead More →
The Nakasendo matsuri is just one of many festivals that is normally held in Omiya at the end of July and start of August each summer. They are collectively called “Omiya Summer Festival”. A couple of them went ahead in 2022, but not this one. This is the first timeRead More →