Find out what’s happening in Saitama today and what’s on in Saitama this weekend with the best Saitama event list on the web. If its on in Saitama, its on insaitama.com!
**During the 2021 State of Emergency and Coronavirus Outbreak, events are subject to change and cancellation at a moment’s notice. Please do always check with the official website for any last minute changes or cancellations.**
Yokai Pandemonium exhibition at Kadokawa Musashino Museum in the Tokorozawa Sakura Town. Yokai Pandemonium Exhibition Yokai Pandemonium is the second exhibition in the grand gallery of the Kadokawa Musashino Museum. The first was "Kengo Kuma: The Birth of an Art Space Connected to Nature - Transcendent Architecture in Stone and
That is why I want to be saved a Ken and Julia Yonetani exhibition at Kadokawa Musashino Museum, also known as the Kadokawa Culture Museum (Kadcul), in the Tokorozawa Sakura Town. Ken and Julia Yonetani Exhibition The Ken and Julia Yonetani Exhibition will be the first exhibition in the Edit
Capybara Onsen at the Saitama Children's Zoo. Where can I see capybara in a hot spring in Saitama? There are actually quite a few places around the Kanto plain that have a capybara hot spring now, but one of the first and one of the best is the capybara hot
Sun City Illumination The Sun City night illumination will be on turned on from November Saturday November 14th and will run until Sunday February 28th 2020. The illumination is turned on at 4.30 pm each day. Normally, the display is until 10 pm, but due to the Coronavirus the hours
Winter Wonderland Moominvalley Park and Adventure Walk 2020 - 2021 In 2018 when Metsa Village was only newly opened it created a name for itself with its highly successful Digitized Lakeside and Forest in collaboration with TeamLab. In 2019 they introduced the equally magical and just as successful Winter Wonderland
Sakura Town Shin Tokorozawa opened in 2020. Part of it opened in the summer and the grand opening was on November 6th 2020. Tokorozawa Sakura Town Tokorozawa Sakura Town has shops, restaurants, museums, a factory, offices, a public open space, event space, a shrine and even a hotel. An anime
The Kawaguchi Green Center Ice Rink. In Winter, Kawaguchi Green Center's summer pools are transformed into a seasonal ice rink. Kawaguchi Green Center is an excellent family friendly complex with various attractions, activities and crafts, and beautiful gardens. Kawaguchi Green Center Ice Rink Every year the skate rink opens from
Information for the Kotatsu Boat Nagatoro in 2021. Its all happening in Nagatoro and Chichibu in January! Icicles, strawberry picking, wintersweet festival and a truly only in Japan activity of Kotatsu boat riding! From January 1st until Sunday February 28th you can ride a boat on the Arakawa in Japanese
The 2021 Nagatoro Wintersweet season is in full swing. Normally the annual Nagatoro wintersweet festival is held from the second week in January to the last week in February. However, this year on account of the State of Emergency they are not having a "festival" per se. But the wintersweet
Seasonal information for the Plum Blossoms Shinrin Park On Tuesday the 19th of January 2021 various TV stations announced that the plum blossoms had opened in the Kanto Plain. In addition, Shinrin Park also posted on their website that the plum blossom season has begun. There are currently a type
Strawberry Picking Moroyama - Ichigo No Sato Moroyama Barrier Free Sightseeing Strawberry Farm has been on the radar for the last few years. First, it was because it had a few famous people visit and it featured on some TV programs. Then, it was because they opened an all year
The Hina Dolls Display event at Toyama Memorial Museum in Kawajima has been cancelled in 2021 on account of the State of Emergency. Toyama Memorial Museum is a heritage home and kura (Japanese edo period storehouse) transformed into a small museum. The facilities are designated cultural properties. Due to the
Forest Villa is the latest initiative from Shinrin Park. I have to say, they are great at coming up with ways to get people to revisit the park multiple times! The Forest Villa event is essentially a day camp. It started in September by the cockscomb fields. Since then it
Ogose Plum Blossom Festival - The Ogose Bairin Plum Tree Festival in Ogose Town, Saitama is considered one of the three big plum blossom festivals in the Kanto region. The 2021 festival dates have been confirmed as from February 13th to March 21st. Early March is generally considered the best time
The house in Nanbata Castle Park in which the hina matsuri dolls are on display is currently closed during the State of Emergency. As such, the hina dolls display event will not be on this year. Looking for a dolls display in Fujimi, Saitama? At Nanbata Castle park's period house
Tokorozawa Dolls Festival officially known as Tokorozawa Hina Monogatari from February 14th to March 14th 2021. The Tokorozawa Doll's Festival Tokorozawa celebrates its doll production history with this "monogatari" festival. Monogatari are described as a narrative tale. They are believed to have developed from oral storytelling of fiction, that even
Chichibu Plum Blossom Season The plum blossoms in Chichibu tend to bloom a little later than the rest of Saitama. Generally from mid February to mid March. Prime viewing is normally the end of February to early March. The last time we visited the area on March 31st 2019 there
Konosu Dolls' Festival . Japan's largest pyramid dolls display at "the surprising dolls festival" will not be on show in 2021. It will go ahead on the dates it was initially scheduled for: February 19th to March 6th in Elumi Mall in Konosu. When the State of Emergency was extended,
The Nagatoro Plum Blossoms / festival or season should start from around mid February, when the ume (plum blossom) typically begin to bloom in that part of Saitama. On the lower grounds they bloom from the end of January. Even on Mt Hodo in Nagatoro there are always a few
Hanno Hina - Almost every city and town in Japan display hina dolls for the dolls festival leading up to girls day, March 3rd, annually. But some towns or cities celebrate the dolls festival in a bigger way. In Saitama the four cities best known for their dolls festival hina
Omiya Plum Blossom season- Update February 26th. Sorry I am late updating - there's just one of me, so its hard to keep each and every post and event up to date. It was decided in the end that the festival would not go ahead on account of the pandemic.
Events by their very nature are tentative. Please do check with the official sources for any last minute changes due to weather or other mitigating factors, particularly with the current Coronavirus outbreak.