Each year, the last festival of Saitama City’s ‘summer’ festivals is the Kita Urawa Awa Odori. However, it always falls in Autumn! It is usually on a Saturday in September. But it was cancelled during the pandemic. Kita Urawa Awa Odori Each year, Saitama City has dozens of festivals knownRead More →
Since the start of 2023, this page showcases events by month. However, the months of July, August and October have their own posts, due to the amount of events on in each of those months. Below you will find a round up of the events on this September in SaitamaRead More →
Miyoshi Festival and fireworks – I haven’t been in many years, but for a number of years in a row we attended this local festival in Miyoshi town beside Tokorozawa. One of the reasons I liked this particular festival is because it is at the start of September when theRead More →
Until the World Baseball Classic this year, I really had very little interest in baseball. Despite that, since moving to Saitama I have always had a very good impression of Saitama’s Seibu Lions baseball team. Even more so since my kids started school and every now and then they receiveRead 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 →
The Shiraoka Festival is on each year in summer. This year will be the 31st occurrence of the festival. It is a local festival supported by local industry and the community. Shiraoka Festival It is a festival for citizens, by citizens. It combines both traditional elements such as “Shiraoka Odori”Read More →
Chichibu Ondo Festival in 2023. I feel like I’ve probably written this about 364 other times on this website, but the Chichibu district¹ is famous for having a festival (almost) ‘every day of the year’! Within the hundreds of festivals on annually some are bigger and better known than others.Read More →
Events, fireworks and festivals on in the month of August, 2023, in Saitama Prefecture. Normally, I add new events all the time, but I will be on holidays from close of business today! Therefore, I won’t be adding events as frequently as usual. Also, for the same reason, I won’tRead More →
Last year this festival was on in Autumn rather than summer. It is back on in summer in 2023, which makes me concerned for human dolls in this festival! Because real living people dress up in traditional Hina doll robes and stand still as if on a hina dolls display.Read More →
The 13th annual Odako Fireworks are on in 2023, for the first time in four years. It is just a small firework display that follows a day time festival called the Kasukabe Community Summer Festival. Both were cancelled between 2020 and 2022 due to the pandemic. Odako Fireworks The fireworksRead More →