Experience / Training / Vehicle Spots in Saitama Area

  • Nagatoro River White Water Rafting
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    4.0
    169 Reviews
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    Saitama Pref. Chichibugunnagatoromachi Nagatoro 489-2
    This traditional river rafting tour is offered each year from around March 10 to early December. Customers can choose between three courses - from Oyahana Bridge to Iwadatami, from Iwadatami to Takasago Bridge, and one course traveling the full length from Oyahana Bridge to Takasago Bridge. No advance reservation is required and tours leave every five to 20 minutes. A special limited time tour is also offered in winter which has riders sit in a toasty-warm kotatsu (heated table with a blanket).

    Took the long (in terms of time) train trip out to Nagatoro on a beautiful day, looking forward spending time on the river, planning to do both routes. When we arrived, we were told that I...

  • Chichibu Highland Ranch
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    4.0
    57 Reviews
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    Saitama Chichibu-gun Higashi-chichibu Mura Sakamoto 2951

    うーん、景色はいいけれども・・・ どうなんでしょう。 何にもないというか、それが魅力とも言えるし。 うーん。

  • Hodosan Ropeway
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    3.5
    36 Reviews
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    Saitama Pref. Chichibugunnagatoromachi Nagatoro 1766-1
    Built on 497 meter tall Mt. Hodo, the Hodosan Ropeway connects the 832 meters between Sanroku Station at the foot and Sancho Station at the summit. During the five minute ride, you can enjoy the beautiful scenery of Nagatoro from the air. Starting with kanzakura cold weather cherries which reach peak bloom in late November, you can enjoy spectacular flowering plants here through to mid-June, including Japanese allspice, Japanese apricot, pheasant’s eye, cherry trees, azaleas, and rhododendrons. In autumn, the fall foliage is stunning.

    子供が宝登山小動物園を楽しみにしていたので、ロープウェイに乗りました。 とにかく眺めが良く、子供は大喜びです^_^ 乗車時間は5分ほどでしたが、秩父の自然を堪能できます。 山頂駅から眺める長瀞の街並みは絶景でした!

  • Enomoto Dairyfarm
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    3.5
    9 Reviews
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    Saitama Pref. Ageoshi Azeyoshi 736-1
    A farm located in Azeyoshi, Ageo City. The farm raises milk cows and a variety of other animals. The farm offers a course which lets visitors experience the life of a farmer, including milking cows and making butter (advance reservation required). The farm also sells gelato made with fresh milk; yogurt made with just milk, lactobacteria, and sugar; and other products. There's also a barbecue ground which allows visitors to bring their own foods for grilling.

    いつもは、丸山公園に出かけた際に農産物直売所にて榎本牧場のアイスクリーム(カップ)を買って頂くのですが、今日は本家に寄れたのでここでしか買えないコーンに載せてのアイスを戴きました。うまかぁ〜

  • Komatsuzawa Leisure Farm
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    4.5
    13 Reviews
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Saitama Pref. Chichibugunyokozemachi Yokoze 1408
    A place for experiencing lots of farm type activities for the family, the Komatsuzawa Leisure Farm offers fruit picking, beetle hunting, and soba making activities in each season. Families can enjoy lava rock barbecue, and seasonal mushroom soup, and Nagashi Somen cuisine served to you by allowing you to catch noodles floating down fresh water in front of you. This is one place you will want to enjoy all day with the meal and activity savings package.

    秩父にある小松沢レジャー農園はいちご狩りや原木椎茸狩り、そば・うどん打ち体験が出来ます。 敷地が広いので、予約なしで日曜日に伺いましたが、人気のいちご狩り体験ができました。 品種はとちおとめで、12月上旬ですが、甘味と瑞々しさがあり美味しかったです。 その後、貴重な原木椎茸を取って、売店で天ぷらにしてもらいました。 採れたての椎茸は柔らかくて、臭みもなく絶品でした^_^ そば打ち体験は、イン...

  • Sayama Berry Land
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    4.0
    8 Reviews
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    Saitama Pref. Sayamashi Horigane 1262-5
    Sayama Berry Land is a tourist farm located on Prefectural Route 8 in Horigane, Sayama City. The farm’s greenhouses are open for visitors to enjoy pick-your-own strawberry activities from mid-December through into late May, followed by pick-your-own blueberries from June to late August, and pick-your-own mushrooms from mid-September onwards. The farm shop sells jam, fruit juice, and fresh fruit, including freshly-picked or frozen blueberries, etc. Soft-serve ice cream is available in the summer months, along with a range of original processed food products.

    Berry land is a great place to visit in Saitama for strawberry picking. You should make a reservation before hand to make sure you can get in as every day it’s very crowded. Getting there from the...

  • Ashigakubo Fruit Park
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    Saitama Pref. Chichibugunyokozemachi Ashigakubo 159
    An area of fruit farms in Ashigakubo, Yokoze Town, Chichibu County. There are 13 farms in the area where visitors can pick strawberries from January through to the middle of May, plums in July to early August, and grapes from mid-August to mid-October.
  • Koshigaya Strawberry Town
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    4.5
    2 Reviews
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    Saitama Pref. Koshigayashi Mashimori 1-41
    A strawberry farm located in 1-Chome Mashimori, Koshigaya City. The farm grows some 64,000 Benihoppe, Akihime, Kaorino, Sainokaori, and other varieties of strawberry plants. From January to May, visitors can enjoy a 45 minute, all-you-can-eat strawberry picking course.

    オープン以来、毎年いちご狩りに行ってます。年々人気が出てきているので、予約はマストです。駐車スペースがしっかりとあり、誘導員もいるので、車でもとても行きやすいです。ビニールハウスが8つほどあり、日によって空いているところは違いますが、様々な種類のイチゴを楽しむことができます。イチゴも売られているので、お土産用に購入も可能です。

  • Wadono Orchards
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    4.0
    3 Reviews
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    Saitama Pref. Chichibushi Kuroya 457-3
    A three-minute walk from Wado-Kuroya Station on the Chichibu Line. Here you can enjoy quality strawberries carefully raised and managed using clean air, pure water, and the temperature differences between morning and night. The farm grows more than 10 varieties of strawberries, including Tochiotome and Akahoppe; the farm's original white strawberries have not yet been named. The farm grows its strawberries using raised planters and fully automatic growing systems in seven greenhouses, and, depending on the time of year, visitors can enjoy up to six strawberry varieties. The farm incorporates universal design principles, ensuring stroller and wheelchair users can easily enter and use the farm's facilities. The farm has been featured in local magazines and newspapers.

    国道140号沿いにあります。 日曜日の10時過ぎに到着しましたが、駐車場はほぼ満車でした。 いちごのビニールハウスは7箇所程あり、道路を挟んだビニールハウスを案内されました。 いちごの品種は紅ほっぺ。 採れたてのいちごは、みずみずしくて甘味も充分あり最高です^_^ いちご狩りの食べ放題は30分ですが、充分お腹いっぱいにいちごを食べることが出来ました。 子供も終始笑顔でいちご狩りを満喫して...

  • Okegawa City Benibana Furusato Hall
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    4.0
    13 Reviews
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    Saitama Okegawa Kano 419-1
    This hall explores what the area was like nearly 100 years ago. Not only can you see and touch the building but you can also experience what life was like for those who lived back then. In the main building in the center of the facility you can try hometown cooking carefully made with traditional techniques and local ingredients that warms the heart including hand-made udon and soba noodles. In the studio building you can try hands-on lessons including making ceramics and pulling udon.

    手打ちそばくらいでなにもないけど、古民家の庭に座っているとゆったりとした時間が流れる。梅が咲いている。

  • Kamisato Strawberry & Tomato Farm
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    3.5
    3 Reviews
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    Saitama Pref. Kodamagunkamisatomachi Teshigawara 1000-2
    This fruit farm is in Kamisato Town, Kodama County, Saitama Prefecture, and allows guests to experience harvesting managed strawberry and tomato fields. Each one offers thirty-minute all-you-can-eat plans, along with free Kamisato Cantare sweets. Reservations can be made at Kamisato Cantare, but make sure you want to reserve the harvest experience.

    令和4年1月3日の10時予約で、当イチゴ園に行きましたが、食べれるイチゴが少な過ぎます。 まず入場可能な3つのイチゴハウスのうち2つ目のハウスでイチゴを少し食べました。 その時点でも、食べごろのイチゴは少ないと思いましたが、「今日はトマト狩りもできる」とのことで、トマトハウスに移り、しばしトマトを食べました。 トマトはたっぷりありましたが、今日はイチゴ狩りに来たのである、ので、その後もとのイ...

  • Fossil and Nature Experience Hall
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    4.0
    8 Reviews
    Travel / Tourism
    Higashi Matsuyama City, Saitama Prefecture Bandoyama 13 Bandoyama second park
    This is an interactive facility in the No. 2 Bando hill park of the Bando region of Higashi Matsuyama City, Saitama Prefecture. It is the only indoor fossil excavation activity center in the prefecture. After listening to the instructors talk, the participant is given a sifter and hammer to excavate such items as shark's teeth from a rock mass. The instructor assesses the item found, and the fossil can be taken home (excluding a few high value fossils). The exhibit area displays valuable fossils found thus far. The tourism corner has a collection of tourist information for the city and the surrounding areas as well as unique products from the fossil activity center. This is the only place where one can enjoy digging for fossils in a temperature controlled environment.

    化石発掘体験のできる人気スポットです。公式ホームページからなどから予約するシステムになっています。東松山市の施設なので、東松山市民は700円、市外の人は1,000円の発掘体験料金が必要になります。1回の時間は1時間30分ですが、最初にプロジェクターを使って東圧山市の地層や化石の説明を受け、次に初めての人は発掘方法の説明を受けてから発掘し、最後に後片付けなどを行うので、発掘時間は1時間程度しかありま...

  • Chichibu Fruit Farm
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    5.0
    1 Reviews
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    Saitama Pref. Chichibushi Shimokagemori 877-1
    A farm where, depending on the season, you can enjoy all-you-can-eat strawberries and grapes, Japanese ishiyaki barbecue, and an all-you-can-eat buffet. The farm offers tasty, highly nutritious agricultural products specially grown organically to be healthy for the plants and soil. The farm has five varieties of strawberries and four varieties of grapes. Chichibu Fruit Farm provides a shuttle service from the nearest station with a reservation for 10 or more people.

    びっくりして写真撮るの忘れました。 巨峰狩りの後、立ち寄った秩父フルーツファーム。 見たことない長細い初めて聞く名前のぶどうを何気に食べて衝撃(@_@) お腹いっぱいのはずなのにしっかり甘く美味しさを感じ、お土産に買ってしまいました。 1k 2200円 噂のルビーロマン(一粒1000円)より絶対いい‼️

  • Sainokuni Fureai Farm
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    Saitama Pref. Chichibugunhigashichichibumura Sakamoto 2949-1 Momo House
    Sainokuni Fureai Farm is a tourist farm located on Prefectural Route 361 in Sakamoto, Higashichichibu Village, Chichibu County. Besides raising dairy cattle and beef cattle, the Farm also has a variety of other animals—including goats, sheep, rabbits etc.—for visitors to interact with in the farmyard and in the pastures; visitors can also enjoy beautiful seasonal flowers, etc. There are displays on animal husbandry, and a range of hands-on experience activities to try. There are also direct sales outlets selling dairy produce and local agricultural produce; light meals etc. are available.
  • Sayama Hill Flora & Fauna Interaction Center
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    3.5
    7 Reviews
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    Saitama Tokorozawa-shi Arahata 782
    A natural area in Tokorozawa City covering nearly 1000 hectares has been developed to allow the people to come into contact with the local nature of the Sayama Hills and to encourage them to consider the importance of nature and its relationship with humans. There are five themed locations centered around a center area which is home to the Ikifure Flora and Fauna Interaction Center which looks at living things native to Arahata, Tokorozawa City. The different locations are connected with a nearly 13- kilometerfootpath from east to west and you can explore the area following the signposts.

    狭山丘陵内にあります。狭山丘陵内のハイキングの途中で寄ると良いと思います。 近くには西武園ゆうえんちや菖蒲で有名な北山公園があるので それとセットで行くのもよいかもしれません。

  • Marche of Strawberry
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    3.0
    1 Reviews
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    Saitama Pref. Tokorozawashi Shimotomi 1168
    A strawberry farm located in Shimotomi, Tokorozawa City. From early January to late May, visitors can enjoy an all-you-can-eat strawberry picking course which requires no advance reservation. The farm grows its strawberries on raised platforms standing one meter off the ground and incorporates universal design principles, making it easy for persons in wheelchairs and thus with strollers to enjoy strawberry picking as well. The farm also has a rest area and a shop selling strawberries and seasonal vegetables.

    昔この辺に住んでいて久しぶりに行って見ると、いちご農園がありました。直売所で甘いイチゴを買いました。30分食べ放題もやっているらしいので次回は挑戦したいです。

  • Arai Farm Happy Strawberry Garden
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    3.0
    1 Reviews
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    Saitama Tokorozawa-shi Shiro 515
    A strawberry picking farm in Tokorozawa City, Saitama. In their three greenhouses they mainly grow the gentle low-acidity Akihime and the more strongly flavored Benihoppe varieties of strawberries. They offer a dedicated area with raised beds and wider passages to allow those in wheelchairs easy access (reservation required). Exact times can change depending on the year but strawberry picking is usually available from late December to early June.

    いちご狩りに行ってきました。採れたてで美味しいイチゴ狩を30分楽しめます。スタッフの方には練乳も用意して頂けました。ご馳走様でした。

  • Higashichichibu Village Washi no Sato
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    Saitama Chichibu-gun Higashichichibumura Mido 441
    This facility complex with the theme of Japanese paper is located in Mido Higashi-Chichibu Village, Chichibu County. It is also called “Roadside Station Washi-no-Sato Higashi-Chichibu.” In addition to a workshop where you can observe and try out techniques involved with handmaking traditional local “Hosokawa paper,” they also have other facilities including a paper making building built during the Edo period, exhibits for traditional culture, restaurants and a food court. These are also direct sales stores for Japanese paper products and agricultural goods.
  • Koyano Fruit Farm
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    4.0
    1 Reviews
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    Saitama Hanno-shi Ashikariba 183
    This fruit farm is located along Prefectural Route 347 in Ashikariba, Hanno City. They grow five varieties of strawberries and ten varieties of grapes. Strawberry picking can be enjoyed from late December to around mid-May and grape picking from early August to around mid-September. It also directly sells strawberries and grapes.

    家族でいちご狩りを楽しみました。 狭山日高インター近くにあるので、圏央道を使う人には便利なロケーションです。 コロナ対策がしっかりしていて、スタッフの方のいちご狩りの説明も丁寧でした。 品種も多く、埼玉県でしか栽培されていないいちごを扱っていました。 30分でしたが、充分なほどいちごを食べることができました。 ほうじ茶やコーヒーがセルフサービスで飲めるのも有り難かったです^_^

  • Kawagoe Experience Workshop AOI-TORI
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    5.0
    3 Reviews
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    Saitama Kawagoe-shi Saiwaicho 5-4
    A hands-on workshop on the second floor of a chopstick seller, located in Ichibangai (Kurazukuri-no-tori), near the Saitama Resona Bank. You can try making a variety of handicrafts including glass beads, glass bead accessories, candles, engraved glass pieces, sand-blasted glass pieces, photo frames, candle holders, stained glass accessories, and plush balls. While reservations are not required when the shop is busy priority is given to those with reservations, so it's best to make a reservation before visiting.

    店員さんの説明もわかりやすく、トンボ玉作り未経験の私でもでもあっという間に作ることができます。 作品の仕上がりに待ち時間が一時間ほどかかるので、周辺には風情のある建物や有名店も多くあったので街中探索をしてすごしました。 オリジナルのトンボ玉をお土産にできて、とっても充実した一日をすごせました。 駅からはバスも出ていますが、少しかかりますが、町を散策できるので歩きもお薦めします。

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Eclipsed by neighboring Tokyo, Saitama is often branded as the sleepy suburbs. However, look a little deeper and you’ll uncover quaint towns bursting with history and crafts from the kurazukuri Edo-period clay houses of Kawagoe to the ancient tree-enveloped temples of Chichibu.

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