Best around Saitama Suburbs Spot List

One-stop purchase of popular Japanese products.

The Tourist Information Office located near the Kurazukuri [traditional Japanese-style warehouse] district. We assist tourists visiting Koedo Kawagoe.

A townscape with a classy atmosphere reminiscent of Edo. A shopping street where you can see the sights on its famous jinrikisha (rickshaw).

A park surrounded with the nature of Hanno. Enjoy the colorful, beautiful landscapes of each season.

The gateway to Chichibu, where timeless Japanese scenery awaits just 80 minutes from Ikebukuro Station in central Tokyo.

This is a museum built on the site where the Kawagoe Castle used to stand. Through various exhibitions, the museum explains how the people in the castle town lived.

Kawagoe Castle Honmaru Goten has been preserved at Kawagoe Castle, listed among Japan's Top 100 Castles. It is also registered as a Cultural Property of Saitama.

An exhibition center where Chichibu Yomatsuri, one of Japan's three major hikiyama (float) festivals, is introduced through historical material and a live performance.

A beautiful tourist sake brewery inside a forest with adjoining brewery and product museums. Home of the original Chichibu Nishiki brand sake.

A long-established ryokan since 1748, famous for being associated with Tesshu Yamaoka (a famous samurai from the late Edo Period). You can enjoy one of the 5 most famous Japanese rice dishes, Chushichimeshi, which was created by the 8th landlord of the ryokan and Tesshu. Its Japanese garden with rare stones is also splendid.

While you enjoy the scenery full of trees, handmade leaf bud soba and other dishes with river fish and edible wild plants will find you smacking your lips. Taking a slow fragrant Japanese cypress bath and listening to the stream will make your fatigue melt away.

It is a quiet hotel, proud to provide outdoor hot spring baths made from Japanese nutmeg-yew. The delicious meals using edible wild plants and river fish are another attraction. Please relax while enjoying the scent of trees and the refreshing wind.

A place to experience the over 370-year-old Kawagoe Festival year round.

A new cultural tourist facility where one can brush shoulders with artisans producing soy sauce, local sake and glass art.

It is a cuisine hotel, proud to provide fresh harvest from the sea and mountains. You can enjoy kaiseki ryori (formally arranged dinner to enjoy sake) of dishes with seasonal feelings with a view of the Japanese garden. The size of guest rooms varies from 8 to 20 tatami mats (about 14 to 35 square meters) and there are twelve guest rooms in total.

Because it faces the Arakawa River, you can view the natural treasure, Nagatoro Iwadatami (the rocks with successive layers of tatami overlapping each other) from both the rooms and the open-air baths. The hotel is also known for the decorated flowers in the main building and kaiseki ryori (a traditional Japanese course meal) which makes use of seasonal ingredients.

Located on high ground along a prefectural road, it has a fine view and is also easy to access. Their food includes lots of rare ingredients such as iwatake (a lichen called rock tripe) and white birch sap. In autumn, they serve course dishes of hoteishimeji mushrooms, daikoku mushrooms and matsutake mushrooms.

A public inn located an environment rich in natural beauty. The hot spring is high in alkaline with a pH of 9.2, and it is known to leave your skin feeling smooth. Also, guests can now enjoy a newly built open-air bath with gensen kakenagashi (hot spring water flowing into the bath directly from the source) overlooking the valley.