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AUTUMN IN SAITAMA - Halloween, festivals, fireworks, flowers, events...things to do and see in autumn in Saitama Prefecture, near Tokyo

Toda | Warabi | Kawaguchi

Posts pertaining to the cities of Toda, Warabi and Kawaguchi

Toda Dream Festival

Kamitoda Dream Festival for the first time in four years

2023-09-09
By: Lynda (Elle)
On: 2023-09-09
In: Autumn in Saitama
With: 0 Comments

Kamitoda Dream Festival is scheduled for the first time in four years. The venue is the same as two other popular events – the Toda Furusato Festival and the Toda market – but Kamitoda Dream Festival offers something different to both of them. Including a popular mini steam locomotive ride.Read More →

Warafes

A meat festival, Warafes 2023, one of Warabi’s big events

2023-09-08
By: Lynda (Elle)
On: 2023-09-08
In: Autumn in Saitama
With: 1 Comment

Waranchu Festival, or Warafes for short, is fast becoming one of the three big events in Warabi annually. It is a relatively new festival, with this year being the fifth year, held in Warabi City Park. It would have been the 7th annual occurrence if it wasn’t for the pandemic!Read More →

Waratetsu railway festival

The popular Waratetsu Railway festival is back in 2023

2023-07-09
By: Lynda (Elle)
On: 2023-07-09
In: Summer in Saitama
With: 1 Comment

Waratetsu is a pretty well known railway festival, for children, in Warabi City. It is usually on for two days in early or mid July each year. But it was cancelled during the pandemic. However, it is back in 2023 and is coming up this weekend… Waratetsu Festival During theRead More →

Warabi Morning Glory market Summer Festival

Morning Glory Market and Summer Festival in Japan’s smallest city

2023-07-05
By: Lynda (Elle)
On: 2023-07-05
In: Summer in Saitama
With: 0 Comments

The Tsukagoshi area of Warabi has a small summer festival, evolved from their annual Morning Glory and Hozuki flower market. Morning Glory markets are popular around the country in early July. The biggest summer festival in Warabi annually is the Warabi Hata Festival which is a tanabata (star) festival onRead More →

Tatara Festival

Big changes to the Tatara Festival once again in 2023

2023-06-30
By: L M N
On: 2023-06-30
In: Summer in Saitama
With: 1 Comment

Information for the annual Tatara Festival, a popular summer festival, in Kawaguchi City. Tatara Festival The Tatara festival is the largest annual festival in Kawaguchi with over 160 festival stalls and approximately 150,000 people attending. There are stage events, a bazaar and children’s mikoshi, but the highlight of the festivalRead More →

Kawaguchi Tanabata Festival

Early July weekday festivities, at Kawaguchi Tanabata Festival

2023-06-13
By: Lynda (Elle)
On: 2023-06-13
In: Summer in Saitama
With: 0 Comments

Information for the Kawaguchi Tanabata Festival in 2023. Looking for a weekday festival near Tokyo in early July!? The Kawaguchi Tanabata Festival will be on weekdays only this year. As far as I am aware this is just due to the way Tanabata falls this year and not necessarily aRead More →

Warabi hata festival

The Warabi Hata Festival in celebration of Tanabata

2023-06-05
By: L M N
On: 2023-06-05
In: Summer in Saitama
With: 1 Comment

The Warabi Hata festival is an annual festival in celebration of the star festival, or “tanabata” as it is called in Japanese. The main date of the festival is usually on a Sunday closest to the August date of Tanabata aka Star Festival. (Tanabata is celebrated on either July 7thRead More →

Warabi wisteria

Nakasendo Seedling Market and Warabi Wisteria Festival

2023-04-17
By: Lynda (Elle)
On: 2023-04-17
In: Spring in Saitama, Things to see in Saitama
With: 1 Comment

The Nakasendo “Naegi Ichi” was known as the “Hina-Ichi” (Hina Doll Market) for many years, mainly selling hina dolls, and it was held on the 1st of April. However, they changed it to a “Naegi Ichi”, which is a seedling market, to encourage citizens to plant flowers and trees. Moreover,Read More →

Primroses Saitama

Celebrating Saitama’s flower at Primrose Festival in Saiko Doman

2023-04-05
By: Lynda (Elle)
On: 2023-04-05
In: Spring in Saitama
With: 0 Comments

Information for the Todagahara Primrose “Sakurasou” festival at Saiko Doman Green Park in 2023. Todagahara Primrose Festival The official flower of Saitama Prefecture is the Japanese primrose “sakurasou”. The Tajima area of Saitama City is most famous for sakurasou in Saitama, but they also grow sakurasou in Toda City. TodagaharaRead More →

Angyo Greenery Festival

The Bi-annual Angyo Greenery Festival, Spring 2023

2023-04-04
By: Lynda (Elle)
On: 2023-04-04
In: Spring in Saitama
With: 0 Comments

Each year the Kawaguchi Ryokka Center holds two greenery festivals – one in Spring and one in Autumn. This weekend is the 95th festival and the first spring one since the pandemic began. Angyo Greenery Festival Angyo is a bonsai town in Kawaguchi City on the border of Tokyo. PreviouslyRead More →

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