Outdoors Moomin Valley Park Japan Travel In a beautiful valley deep in the forests of Saitama Prefecture lies Moomin Valley Park – home to a charming little family, th..
11 Outdoors Nagatoro Iwadatami Cathy Cawood View layered rock formations or take a boat ride at Iwadatami Gorge on the Arakawa River in Saitama.
Activities Manjushage Festival, Koma Allan Murphy For fifty weeks of the year, the town of Koma (just 50 km from Ikebukuro, Tokyo) could be just about anywhere in rural Japan, ..
Outdoors Cocoon City Illumination Mid Nov - Mid Feb Information for the annual winter night illumination at Cocoon City with its color changing Christmas tree.
Activities Jazz Performance Mid - Late Nov Togo Park (東郷公園) in Agano is renowned as one of the most best places to see the momiji (fall colors). On the third weekend..
Activities The John Lennon Museum Allan Murphy Construction of the John Lennon Museum in Omiya, Saitama (near Tokyo), began in 1998 and the museum opened on October 9, 2000 ..
10 Outdoors Higanbana at Hidaka, Saitama Marsita Yunus Hidaka is a nice place to visit during the autumn. You can see a very unique flower called Higanbana in Japanese, or red spider..
Camping & Trekking Mt. Tenran - Hanno, Saitama Todd Wojnowski Mt. Tenran is a very easy dayhike in Hanno, Saitama. The climb is appropriate for children of any age, and is especially beautiful..