Kamikawa Town will have a Kirakira (Sparkling) Festival with fireworks in December. On the same night of the festival they will turn on the town’s Christmas lights for the 2023 season. Kamikawa Town is located in Northern Saitama. It is famous for a few different things, including a rare shrine,Read More →
Each year in winter, Fukaya City have beautiful illumination displays around the city. Since last year, 2022, there are an additional two with the completion of two new, long awaited, facilities, for a total of five. Two of the five have an event post of their own, so I haveRead More →
Honjo City, in the North of Saitama Prefecture, has new illumination in 2023, in addition and near to the annual Marigold Hill illumination. Furthermore, they will also have a Christmas market on two days during the illumination period. They will have workshops too. All for free.Read More →
A beautiful bamboo light exhibition event starts in Honjo tonight, Wednesday November 22nd 2023. They have a bamboo light event like this each May too. Bamboo Light Exhibition The ‘BAM’ club of Waseda University organize these annual bamboo light exhibitions. They produced this November’s event with the cooperation of membersRead More →
The event is officially called “How to enjoy a Scandinavian Christmas”, but essentially this event is a Christmas market in the beautiful Honjo Brick Warehouse. Scandinavian Christmas Honjo Brick Warehouse is an event space in an old, renovated warehouse, much like a mini version of the famous redbrick warehouse inRead More →
Information for the 18th annual Fukaya Industry Festival, which is essentially an agricultural festival, with a twist. A music event ‘Negirock’, will be on simultaneously at this two day festival, held annually in November, in the hometown of the father of Japanese capitalism, Shibusawa Eiichi. On the Sunday, there willRead More →
This Autumn, for the first time ever, Kumagaya City in Saitama and Ota City and Oizumi Town in Gunma, will colloborate on a large scale fireworks display over the Tonegawa River. Between them, the two cities and one town will launch approximately 10,000 fireworks over the Tosui Bridge, which connectsRead More →
I had so many events I wanted to get out in a timely manner for this weekend, including Yorii Autumn Festival, but it wasn’t to be. But the festival is on again tomorrow so I am going to make this post live again (I unpublished it during the pandemic) forRead More →
Information for the 2023 Fukaya Omaeda Float Festival. Each year in October there is a traditional float festival in the Omaeda area of Fukaya. But you can see the festival floats of this festival all year round at the Hanazono Roadside Station. Fukaya Omaeda Float Festival The Fukaya Omaeda FloatRead More →
This year Kamikawa Town will have their annual cosmos festival for the first time in four years. As far as I am aware it is the first time in four years. Kamikawa is a beautiful mountain town in Northern Saitama, on the border of Gunma. It is home to aRead More →