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- Sakitama Kofun Park
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- Saitama Pref. Gyoudashi Sakitama 4834
- A public park situated along Prefectural Route 77 in Sama, Gyoda City. The park encloses the Sakitama Burial Mounds, a group of several large ancient burial mounds which includes the Maruhakayama Burial Mound and the Futagoyama Burial Mound. Park facilities include the Shogunyama Burial Mound Exhibit Hall, the Museum of the Sakitama Ancient Burial Mounds, a public square, botanical garden, and rest house. The park is also a popular destination for viewing cherry blossoms in the spring.
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Partial archaeological excavations have found that Inariyama Tumulus belongs to an important lord or owake who served Wakatakeru no Ookimi. Wakatakeru inscribed in the iron sword buried in the...
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- Menuma Shodenzan Kangi-in Temple
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4.081 Reviews - Travel / Tourism
- Saitama Kumagaya-shi Menuma 1511
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無料の駐車場があちこちにあります。 その周りには名物のお土産屋やお休み所がありました。縁結びの神様と豪華絢爛な歓喜院聖天堂です。 散歩コースにもなる貴惣門 中門 仁王門からの本殿。平和の塔や実盛公像などなど見どころがいっぱいです。 名物のでっけーお稲荷さんのお店は行列ができていました。
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- Shibusawa Sakaeichi Memorial Hall
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3.540 Reviews - Travel / Tourism
- Saitama Fukaya-shi Shimode
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「近代日本資本主義の父」渋沢栄一さんの「渋沢栄一記念館」です。入場料は無料です。 この「渋沢栄一記念館」は、渋沢栄一さんの生まれた故郷の「公民館」の一部を「渋沢栄一記念館」にしているためか、とても手作り感のある雰囲気の記念館です。「公民館」の体育館もそのまま残っています。 そのような雰囲気の「渋沢栄一記念館」の展示は、、王道的な渋沢栄一さんの遺品、資料、年表などを紹介をしてあります。その中で印象深...
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- Saitama Museum of Rivers
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4.029 Reviews - Leisure / Hobbies
- Saitama Pref. Osatogunyorimachi Kozono 39
- Opened in 1997, the Saitama Museum of Rivers teaches visitors through a variety of workshops about the Arakawa River, Saitama’s most prominent waterway, as well as the relationship between rivers and people’s lives. Its Arakawa Wakuaku Land facility is open from the Spring Equinox until the mid-November. This extremely popular “water athletics” park lets visitors learn about the scientific properties of water, flood control, and water use first hand through various activities.
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本館は館内音響環境が悪く、壁面に反響してアナウンスが明瞭に聞こえない。 「鉄砲堤実演イベント」を観覧したが、小学生ならば早々に(よく聞こえないので)飽きてしまうだろう・・・という感じ。 如何にも“予算内で設備を作りました”・・・後は知りません・・・というのが見え見え。 館内案内人にPAがダメだというと「よくそのように言われます」とのこと。 心に訴えかけるものが無く、全く響かない案内。博物館員の方々...
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- Gyoda City Provincial Museum
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3.534 Reviews - Travel / Tourism
- Saitama Pref. Gyoudashi Honmaru 17-23
- The museum is located in the ruins of a castle completed in the Muromachi period by Akiyasu Narita. Although the castle was destroyed during the Meiji Restoration, it was a famous heavily fortified caste that did not fall during battles between the Uesugi and Hojo clans, and withstood a flooding attack by Mitsunari Ishida, dispatched by Hideyoshi Toyotomi during the suppression of the Kanto region. It was considered one of the seven main strongholds of the Kanto region. Currently, there is a reconstructed turret located on the site of the destroyed Oshi Castle in the Honmaru area, and you can see a full view of within Gyoda City from the top floor. At the folk museum located on the grounds, you can find exhibits about Gyoda’s history and local culture.
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市内循環バスの西循環コースで「忍城址・郷土博物館前」バス停からすぐ。「忍城バスターミナル」からでも徒歩5分ほど。 忍城本丸跡地にあり、復元された忍城御三階櫓も博物館の一部となっている。入館料200円。常設展示は撮影不可。館内には忍城の資料、埼玉古墳群の出土品、行田の産業として有名な足袋に関する資料などが展示されているが展示数はそれほど多くない。御三階櫓の最上階(4階)は展望室となっている。
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- Saitama Prefectural Museum of the Sakitama Ancient Burial Mounds
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4.040 Reviews - Leisure / Hobbies
- Saitama Pref. Gyoudashi Sakitama 4834
- A museum located in Sakitama Kofun Park along Prefectural Route 77 in Sakitama, Gyoda City. The museum preserves historic sites in the prefecture including the National Historic Site-designated Sakitama Burial Mound Group. It also collects, researches, and displays relevant materials. Museum exhibits include the Kinsakumeitekken (gold-inlaid iron sword) and other National Treasure-designated artefacts exhumed from the Sakitama Inariyama Burial Mound displayed in the national treasure exhibition hall.
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横穴式と言う複数埋葬できるように作られた石室だそうですが、その石室を公開しており、他にはなかなかこういう施設は見当たらないのではないかと思う。盗掘された跡があった影響なのか、発掘された当時の写真や様子などからの解説が乏しいのが残念ですが、メインの博物館よりも別館で離れた所にあるこちらの方が、興味深い展示館でした。
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- Hachigata Castle History Museum
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3.514 Reviews - Leisure / Hobbies
- Saitama Pref. Osatogunyorimachi Hachigata 2496-2
- This historical museum is in Yorii Town, Osato County, Saitama Prefecture. It serves as both a guidance center for the Hachigata Castle ruins and an activity center to educate visitors about local culture and history. There is an exhibition room dedicated to Hachigata Castle's history and construction, and there are special exhibition rooms on the themes of spring and autumn. The lecture hall can also be used for meetings and club activities except commercial purposes.
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その城で戦闘が行われ、勝敗がどうだったか、それをしっかりと展示しています。城跡だけ巡ってもそのあたりのことは確定できません。 私の場合、まず城跡を一通り巡り、意外とこれは防御力低いんじゃないかなと思ったら、実際落城していました。予想を確かめられました。
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- Roadside Station Okabe
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- Saitama Pref. Fukayashi Oka 688-1
- A roadside station situated along the Fukaya By-pass in Oka, Fukaya City. Facilities include a farm fresh center selling local agricultural products such as Fukaya Welsh onions, other vegetables picked that very morning, and flowers; and a local specialty products center selling over 200 varieties of pickles, foods made with Fukaya Welsh onions, local liquors, popular local confections, and gelato. In addition, there's a restaurant which serves soba noodles delivered direct from Nagano as well as local dishes such as hot ni-boto and cold hiyajiru udon soups made with local vegetables and udon noodles; and a shop which sells Welsh onion and miso musubi and other musubi rice balls.
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- Kanasana-jinja Shrine
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4.016 Reviews - Travel / Tourism
- Saitama Kodama-gun Kamikawamachi Ninomiya 751
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金鑽神社は山の中にひっそりと鎮座している神秘的な神社です。この神社は拝殿だけで本殿がない珍しい神社です。拝殿の裏山の標高300ｍ程の御室山（御室ヶ嶽）を神体山として祀っています。このような神社なので、足の不自由な方には大変かもしれませんが、参拝したあとに裏山に登ってみることをお薦めします。登っていくと国指定特別天然記念物の御嶽の鏡岩を見ることが出来ます。昔は鏡岩の上を歩くことが出来たのですが、今は...
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- Kumagaya Sakura Tsutsumi
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- Saitama Pref. Kumagayashi Kawarachou Sakuragicho
- This popular cherry blossom viewing spot is on the Arakawa River in Kumagaya City. It covers about two kilometers of cherry trees along the levees downstream from Arakawa Bridge. It's been a popular spot since the Edo Period, and it has been chosen as one of Japan's Top 100 Cherry Blossom Viewing Sites. A cherry blossom festival is held in season, and they illuminate the trees in the evening. The Sakura Marathon takes place there in late March, and in the summer, it's the venue for the Kumagaya Fireworks.
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- Oshi Castle Three Story Turret
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- Saitama Gyoda-shi Honmaru 17-23
- "A park maintained on the grounds of a castle situated along National Route 125 in Honmaru, Gyoda City. Oshi Castle, counted as one of the seven great castles of the Kanto region, is also known as the ""Floating Castle"" after it withstood Ishida Mitsunari's attempt to flood it during Toyotomi Hideyoshi's 1590 campaign to subjugate Kanto. The castle's citadel was demolished in the early Meiji period. Today, a three-tier reconstruction stands on the site; serving as part of the Gyoda City Folk Museum, inside visitors will find exhibits on the history and culture of Gyoda."
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- Katakura Silk Commemorative Museum
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4.012 Reviews - Travel / Tourism
- Saitama Kumagaya-shi Hongoku 2-135
- A museum located within the Katakura Industry's cocoon warehouse at their Kumagaya workshop, the last silk factory, which introduce the actual process used to produce the silk reeling machines and raw silk used in the factory and the life inside the factory. Visitors can see the actual machines that were used as well as a memorial gallery and the state of the warehouse as it was when operational. In 2007 it was designated as a site of Heritage of Industrial Modernization.
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もともとは片倉製糸工場があった場所なので、記念館があっても不思議ではないです。当時の貴重な資料がたくさん展示してあって、無料で見学できます。 大型産業の無い熊谷市にあっては大変大きな施設であったことが分かります。
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- Gyoda Hachiman Jinja
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- Saitama Gyoda-shi Gyoda 16-23
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- Kamisato Strawberry & Tomato Farm
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3.53 Reviews - Leisure / Hobbies
- 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.
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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...
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- Shorinji Temple
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4.58 Reviews - Travel / Tourism
- Saitama Osato-gun Yoriimachi Sueno 2072-1
- This temple is located in the Oaza Sueno area of Yorii-machi, Osato County. It was built in 1511, and in addition to being known as Gohyaku Rakanji Temple, it houses a thousand stone tablets of Kojin. There are also hiking courses on the grounds that overlook the rich nature of Chichibu.
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少林山の裏山の山頂には釈尊が祀られていました。山麓から山頂に向けて歩き始めるとすぐに、「五百羅漢」と「千体荒神」の分かれ道の道標があります。「五百羅漢」は山頂まで510余体の羅漢石仏が並んでいて、「千体荒神」は関東一と云われる960余の石碑が並んでいます。どちらに進んだらよいのか迷ってしまいますが、どちらに行っても山頂で合流するので大丈夫です。上りと下りで違う道を通れば両方を見ることができます。私...
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- Lake Tsuburata
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3.02 Reviews - Travel / Tourism
- Saitama Pref. Osatogunyorimachi Sueno 2155
- This reservoir was created when the Tsuburata Dam was built on Arakawa River system's Sakagawa River. Its many cherry trees have made it a popular spot for viewing the blossoms. The lake is stocked with Japanese crucian carp, and there's a pier with a fleet of boats. People come to fish both from the pier and out on the water. You can fish throughout the year with the inclusion of Japanese pond smelt in winter.
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円良田湖は農業用水を溜めておくための人造湖で、周囲は4.3ｋｍもあります。竣工されてから60年以上たっているため、とても風情があります。ところが残念なことに、円良田湖周囲にある駐車場やトイレはへら鮒釣り客専用のものばかりで、釣り人にとっては最高の場所だと思いますが、一般観光客は冷遇されており、観光に不向きです。
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- Kawasemi-Gawara
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- Saitama Pref. Osatogunyorimachi Kozono 12
- "The general name for the flood plain following the Arakawa River in Yorii Town, Osato County. In addition to camping and barbecuing, the area is a popular destination for fishing, canoeing, and other outdoor activities. Also a renowned bird watching spot, visitors can catch sight of the common kingfisher, known as the ""kawasemi"" in Japanese and the bird from which the floodplain takes its name."
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- Hyakutai Kannon-do Hall
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3.54 Reviews - Travel / Tourism
- Saitama Honjo-shi Kodamacho Kodaira 653
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成身院の百体観音堂は児玉総合運動公園の隣りにあるふるさとの森公園の中にあります。百体観音堂内には名前の通り、１層に秩父三十四観音、２層に坂東三十三観音、３層に西国三十三観音の合計百観音が安置されています。3層構造のここのような観音堂を一般的にさざえ堂と呼んでおり、関東-東北に掛けて点在するさざえ堂の中でも、ここは日本三大さざえ堂の一つとされています。成身院の百体観音堂と仁王門は立派ですが、本堂は本...
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- Former Residence of Shibusawa, “Nakanchi”
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- Saitama Fukaya-shi Chiaraijima 247-1
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- Chugen Daira Ryokuchi Park
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- Saitama Pref. Osatogunyorimachi Akiyama
- Located on the slopes of Mt. Kamafuse in the southwestern part of the town of Yorii in the Osato County of Saitama Prefecture, Chugen Daira is famous as a scenic spot that offers a complete panorama of the Kanto Basin. Chugen Daira Ryokuchi Park is located in this mountainous area. It has an observation tower and is laced with footpaths. Its beautiful autumn leaves are a special attraction, and visitors can enjoy strolling through the park while looking at the brightly colored foliage.
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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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