Leisure / Hobbies Spots in Around Chichibu Area

  • Hitsujiyama Park
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Saitama Pref. Chichibushi Omiya 6360
    Hitsujiyama Park is a green land park spread on a hilltop with a panoramic view of Chichibu City, and is known as a flower viewing place for the beautiful cherry blossoms, iris and moss phlox. In the park, moss phlox with more than some 400,000 plants from nine varieties are cultivated over about 17,600 square meters, and red, pink and white moss phlox flowers cover the whole area in spring like a patchwork of flowers. There are a range of facilities such as Fureai bokujo (ranch) where you can pat sheep, a museum for Mt. Buko which is a symbol of Chichibu and an athletics area. Anyone can enjoy the whole day there regardless of their age.
  • Chichibu Festival Museum
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    4.0
    59 Reviews
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Saitama Pref. Chichibushi Bambamachi 2-8
    A museum which presents materials and live demonstrations relating to the Chichibu Night Festival, held each year on December 3 and one of the three largest float festivals in Japan. Making use of the latest technologies, the museum recreates the sights and sounds of the festival for visitors to enjoy. Visitors can also see historical materials up close. There’s a souvenir shop on the first floor selling souvenirs related to the festival as well as original museum merchandise.

    A Small Museum, but does an excellent job of showing how dynamic this festival is! It is a Designated Cultural Treasure which you can experience here. We went on a weekday, not crowded, but the 3-D...

  • Saitama Museum of Natural History
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    4.0
    32 Reviews
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    Saitama Pref. Chichibugunnagatoromachi Nagatoro 1417-1
    This is a museum in Nagatoro, Nagatoro Town, Chichibu County. The museum collects as well as stores and researches natural materials of the area with the theme “from the past to the future, a 300 million year journey of Saitama and the coexistence of people and nature”. There is an earth science exhibition and a biological creature display as a permanent exhibit. Additionally, the museum holds exhibitions on the living biological creatures and minerals in the Saitama Chichibu area.

    埼玉県に40年以上住んでますが、子供と初めて訪れました。 他県の自然博物館に比べると小振りな博物館でしたが、秩父で発掘された化石から、大昔は海であったことがよく分かります。 パレオパラドキシアの化石は大変興味深いです。 秩父の自然や成り立ちを学べるので、秩父観光前に訪れると、秩父巡りがより楽しめると思います。

  • 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...

  • Forest Adventure Chichibu
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    4.0
    19 Reviews
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Saitama Pref. Chichibushi Kuna 637-2 Chichibu Muse Park/In the forest of sports
    Forest Adventure Chichibu is in the Sports Forest area of Chichibu Muse Park. This natural outdoor park uses the forest itself in its activities, and is one of the nation’s largest. It’s open to children from fourth grade up, and offers real adventure for anyone who wants to try!

    指導員の指示通り遊んでいたら指を切断しました。私が叫ぶまで救急車も呼ばない。現場責任者は一切賠償しないと妻に言いきりました。 昨日フォレストアドベンチャーの弁護士からきた書面内容を確認したが、当方には一切非はないとの事でした。つまり一切改善しないという事。 これから何人犠牲になるのか。怒りしかありません。相手弁護士の書面には、SNSなどに載せると訴えると書いてあったが、真実を伝えるのがトリップアド...

  • Chichibu Hodosan Zoo
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    3.5
    32 Reviews
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Saitama Pref. Chichibugunnagatoromachi Nagatoro 2209-6
    Opened as a wild monkey park in 1960, the Chichibu Hodosan Zoo brings people and animals together in a lush, natural area and is particularly popular with children. Located at the top of 497 meter tall Mt. Hodo, visitors can have fun and take in the great outdoors. The zoo’s closing time varies by season; be sure to check before visiting.

    宝登山ロープウェイ山頂駅から少し歩いたところにある小動物園です。 小さい子供が楽しめる観光スポットが少ない 秩父エリアでは、貴重な場所です。 うさぎと触れ合えたり、猿に餌やりができました。 山頂にあるので眺望がよく、ちょっとしたハイキング気分になれました。

  • Forest Sons Nagatoro
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    4.0
    13 Reviews
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Saitama Pref. Chichibugunnagatoromachi Honnokami 363
    A campground with all-weather camping facilities where visitors can enjoy full-on outdoor camping. Forest Sons Nagatoro is an American-style campground boasting the largest number of travel trailers and cottages in the prefecture. The ground also has a tent site and visitors can even just camp for the day before heading home. Customers staying in a trailer house or cottage receive a free entry ticket to the Mangan-no-Yu bathhouse, which features an outdoor bath with a view of the pure stream flowing through Okunagatoro Valley and Mangan Falls.

    Booked Trailer B for a night, it’s our first time to be in an RV. It was a great experience, kids loved it. but it’s COVID season, pool and play area for kids are closed so kids got bored. Can’t swim...

  • Wadono Orchards
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    4.0
    3 Reviews
    Leisure / Hobbies
    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...

  • 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.
  • PICA Chichibu Chichibu Muse Park Forest of Sports (Tennis Courts)
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    3.5
    11 Reviews
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Saitama Chichibu-shi Kuna 637-2
    These tennis courts are located in Chichibu Muse Park. Here you can enjoy tennis in comfort on spacious courts which include 46 clay courts and six hard courts. In addition to guests staying in the park's cottages, the courts are also available for day-use by non-guests. They are also available for extracurricular activity training camps and tennis competitions.

    ちょうど銀杏が綺麗な時期でした。展望台から眺める景色も素晴らしいです。遊歩道もあり散策に適しています。

  • WaterPark Nagatoro
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    5.0
    1 Reviews
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Saitama Pref. Chichibugunminanomachi Kanasaki 1918-1
    Situated in the Prefectural Nagatoro Tamayodo Nature Park in a great location right in front of the Arakawa Campsite, WaterPark Nagatoro is a campground which offers rafting, boat trips and a fishing area. The campground has equipment to hire and buy so if you do forget anything you won’t be stuck. With lots of wooden huts to stay in it’s a great place to enjoy some outdoor fun.

    人生初のラフティング、子供たちも満喫していました。 雨の中でのキャンプでしたが、シャワーもトイレも清潔で快適に過ごせました。 帰りに美味しい蕎麦も堪能し、SLも間近で見られて、充実した一泊二日になりました。

  • Chichibu Muse Park
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    Saitama Pref. Chichibugunoganomachi Nagaru
    This theme park, flourishing with greenery, displays a variety of flowers throughout the year, including cherry blossoms, daffodils and azaleas. In the fall, the three-kilometer long boulevard of Ginkgo trees is a glorious site to see. The park is full of children friendly activities, such as the Skytrain that runs through the park, and the children’s playground obstacles including a tall observatory.
  • Minoyama Park
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    Saitama Pref. Chichibushi Kuroya 2372
    This natural park is spread across the solitary mountain (rare in Chichibu) of Mt. Minoyama, at a height of 586 meters. It features roughly 8,000 cherry trees in 70 varieties (mostly Yoshino cherries), as well as number of other flowering plants, like rhododendrons and hydrangeas, making for a colorful display in spring and summer. Famous for its night view and even selected as one of Japan’s Top 100 Night Views, the outlook point on the peak offers a gorgeous view of Chichibu Basin and Okuchichibu Mountains. A sea of clouds shows up in early morning, and sometimes stick around to create the mysterious night view. There are no exterior lights, so you will need portable lighting if you come to the park at night.
  • Nagatoro Auto Camping Ground
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Saitama Chichibu-gun Nagatoromachi Ido 559-1
  • Tadakane Farm
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Saitama Chichibu-shi Shimoyoshida 4091
    This farm is located along Fruit Road in Shimoyoshida, Chichibu City. Five varieties of strawberry, including “Kaorino” and “Mouikko,” are cultivated here with the help of wine compost. From January until around June, you can enjoy strawberry picking as well as interacting with the rabbits and goats that are raised on the farm. In addition, a nearby pond is well known as a spot for fireflies. For the duration of the firefly season, that begins in around mid-June, you can use the farm’s parking lot.
  • Splash Garden Chichibu Auto Camping Ground
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    4.0
    3 Reviews
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Saitama Chichibu-shi Obashira 326-2

    施設は普通です。 バンガロー近くのトイレはウォシュレットもあり、綺麗です。 芝生が気持ちよくて、まぁ良いことは良いのですが‥‥ 管理人さん、ちょっと融通がきかないというか、厳しいです。 それで嫌な思いする人、たぶんいるのではないでしょうか‥‥

  • Amus House & Friends
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    5.0
    2 Reviews
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Saitama Pref. Chichibugunnagatoromachi Nakanogami 560

    はじめてのラフティングで少し不安ででしたが、とても楽しかったです。スタッフのみなさんも個性豊かで感じよかったです。息子にもやさしくしていただきました。また機会があれば行きたいと思います。

  • Ashigakubo Valley International Fishing Spot
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    4.0
    2 Reviews
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Saitama Pref. Chichibugunyokozemachi Ashigakubo 1028
    A mountain stream fishing ground situated along National Route 299 in Ashigakubo, Yokoze Town, Chichibu County, Saitama Prefecture. Here visitors can enjoy fly fishing and fishing with live bait and lures in a lush, naturally beautiful area. Visitors can bring the trout, char, and other fish they catch to the facility's restaurant to have it prepared for them; the establishment also serves river fish dishes, dishes made with ground dear and other meats, and udon and soba noodles. Visitors can also barbecue along the riverside.

    休暇村奥武蔵に止まった際に利用しました。 釣り具も餌も貸してくれるので手ぶらで釣りが出来るので便利です。 釣った魚は100円で焼いて食べられます。家族で行きましたが子供達は初めての釣りで良い体験が出来て良かったです。

  • Trout On! Irikawa River Lure & Fly Fishing Field
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    4.0
    2 Reviews
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    Saitama Pref. Chichibushi Otaki 5712-3
    A trout fishing ground located in Otaki, Chichibu City. Here visitors can fish using lures and live bait as well as go fly fishing on the Irikawa River, one of the sources of the Arakawa River. Visitors can also try catching fish with their bare hands or play in the river water pool area. You can barbecue the fish you catch right along the river or grill it with salt shioyaki style using an irori sunken hearth.

    秩父往還と呼ばれる国道140号から沢沿いの林道をさらに奥に進んだ入川沿いにあ る渓谷です。さらに上流に遡ると荒川の起点があります。 毎年10月下旬から11月の下旬にかけての紅葉シーズンでは奥秩父紅葉まつりの紅葉 スポットとしてもパンフレットに掲載されます。 ですが、国道を離れると、すぐ未舗装かつ、退避場所の少ない狭い林道となります 。林道にはいり10分ほど車を進めると、キャンプ場・渓流釣り場の駐車...

  • Chichibu Farm Village
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Saitama Chichibu-shi Terao 2307
    This agritourism farm is located in Terao, Chichibu City. It consists of 18 local farmers. From fruits such as strawberries, grapes and apples, to chestnuts and shiitake mushroom, they sell seasonal produce directly and also have opportunities to pick them. Please make sure to contact the individual farms for opening times as they differ depending on the farm.

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