Information for the 37rd annual Kuki Citizens Festival. There are quite a few events on in Kuki City in the month of October each year. The Citizen’s festival is popular with the locals. Generally it is on in the middle of October. Some of the highlights of the festival includeRead More →
Water hyacinth flowers grow in Gyoda Suijo Park each year in Autumn. They are a very interesting flower and not that common in Saitama Prefecture. Reportedly, water hyacinth were brought to Japan from the Amazon Basin during the Meiji period, for ornamental purposes. The most famous place for them isRead More →
Gyoda Floating lantern and ‘cool’ or summer evening festival or とうろう流し納涼大会 in Japanese. The Gyoda Floating Lantern and Summer Evening Festival is an annual event in Gyoda City. Moreover, it is held on the same date every year – on August 16th. However, between 2020 and 2022 they cancelled theRead More →
‘Tanbo’ Art – art made from rice in a ‘tanbo’, the Japanese for rice paddy. A must see in summer / early Autumn in Saitama. The rice for the 2023 Guinness World Record Rice Paddy Art was planted today. Yes, the rice is not painted – it is planted toRead More →
The umbrella sky in Gyoda is is one of the most beautiful umbrella skies in my personal opinion. I think its the row of flowers that line the path that make it. Currently, this event has no other website entries online (there are a couple of social media posts), soRead More →
As promised, a completely revamped post for the free monthly Hanachozu Week event in Gyoda City. The event has gone some through changes. Because I updated the original post frequently, the post had become a bit ‘messy’. Moreover, this year (2023), they are switching the event from the fiscal yearRead More →
Information for the Blue Festival in 2023 in Kuki City, Saitama Prefecture, Japan. Kuki Blue Festival No, it’s not missing an “s” and its nothing to do with music; the blue festival in Kuki is in celebration of “blue” flowers that bloom at this time of year. However, in allRead More →
The Washinomiya area Cosmos Fureai road is best known for its namesake cosmos flowers, but each year in May the area has some beautiful cosmos. And just like the cosmos last Autumn, this year the main field has a ‘landscape door’. Basically, a landscape door is an “Anywhere Door” knownRead More →
Information for the 2023 Kuki Shobu Poppy Festival, which is on for the first time since 2019. Kuki Shobu Poppy Festival The Poppy Festival is on annually in May in the Shobu area of Kuki City. However, it was not on at all during the pandemic. Moreover, like Kinchakuda andRead More →
The 5th annual Kuridashi Ichi is on, all things equal, this Sunday April 23rd in Kuki City. With liver performances, festival stalls and activities galore. Kuridashi Ichi Kuridashi Ichi is held in the Kurihashi area of Kuki City. “Ichi” in this case is a word that means something like aRead More →