The Trick Art exhibition at Sayama City Museum is back and looks even better than the last one in 2018! As we have not yet been to the 2023 version, the photos in this post – apart from the official flyer – are from the 2018 exhibition. The Sayama MunicipalRead More →
Information sakura matsuri at Tokorozawa Sakura Town. Sakura Matsuri means cherry blossom festival. There are several events on during the period of the cherry blossom festival. Tokorozawa Sakura Town Cherry Blossoms Tokorozawa Sakura Town, often described as an entertainment town, has shops, restaurants, museums, a factory, offices, a public openRead More →
A special Snoopy exhibition is coming to the Kadokawa Culture Museum in Tokorozawa Sakura Town this spring. The Love Love Snoopy, Take Care with Peanuts starts on February 11th 2023 at the EJ Anime Museum on the 3rd floor of the Kadokawa Culture Museum*. Interestingly, the Kadokawa Museum does notRead More →
Information for the Setsubun Festival at Musashino Reiwa Shrine and Tokorozawa Sakura Town in 2023. Musashino Reiwa Shrine The Musashino Reiwa Shrine was designed, under the supervision of Kengo Kuma, as part of the Cool Japan project. There are many unique elements to the shrine, but the design is theRead More →
Information for the next exhibition, TAGUKORE: Dunno A Thing About Art (But I like it), at the grand gallery of the Kadokawa Musashino Museum. Kadokawa Musashino Museum is also known as Kadokawa Culture Museum or Kadcul for short. The grand gallery is on the 1st (ground) floor of the KadokawaRead More →
Across a large pedestrian bridge on the North end of Tokorozawa Sakura Town is the interesting Tokorozawa city promotional facility YOT-TOK. In English it is called “Tokorozawa City Tourism Information and Local Products”. The YOT stands for Yoimono, Oshimono and tanoshimono, which sums up what the facility is about. YoimonoRead More →
For the first time in three years; Tokorozawa New Years Firefighter Ceremony, called a Dezome Shiki in Japanese. New Year Firefighter Event A dezome shiki is a type of firefighter festival held in the New Year, often on the second weekend of January. In recent years “New Year Firefighter Ceremony”Read More →
Information for the Christmas events at Tokorozawa Sakura Town in 2022. Last year, 2021, they had a “Christmas hikari no market” on Christmas weekend. It was called “market”, but it was not a typical Christmas market. More a series of events, with some food. And it will be the sameRead More →
Information for the Lucky Star exhibition at the Edit and Art Gallery in the Kadokawa Musashino Museum¹, in Tokorozawa Sakura Town, in Winter 2023. Like all exhibitions at Kadokawa Museum, it is recommended that you purchase a ticket in advance, particularly for a weekend. Tickets are already on sale. LuckyRead More →
A Santa Festival of sorts – 200 Santa on the loose in Tokorozawa, find them for a prize! Santa Festival Back in 2013 I wrote about the unusual “only in Japan” places you could meet Santa. One of the places on the list was this “Find Santa” event in TokorozawaRead More →