Best Visiting Spot List

A picture of life in Japan perfectly blended into nature

The Higashi-yamato Municipal Folk Museum has ”the Sayama Hills and life” as its theme. The museum has a planetarium equipped with a Megastar projector, which casts images of stars.

Grandiose floats decorated with scenes from historic events parade through the city

This is a museum where you can learn the aesthetics of the samurai spirit. You can experience being a samurai warrior wearing kabuto (a helmet) and yoroi (an armor) and take commemorative photos as well.

Traditional Japanese bathhouses(SENTO).

The beloved boathouse of Ryoma Sakamoto

A rare, underground art museum

Famous for its tea room, ”Hasso-no-seki”

The museum exhibits precious fossils of prehistoric life and a large diorama replicated the forests of Saitama. It is a museum where you can learn the 300 million years of the natural history of the prefecture.

An established accommodation that offers a famous onsen and cuisines made from carefully selected ingredients

Immerse yourself in the deep and mystical world of Dali

Traditional Japanese bathhouses(SENTO).

Known for “the evening bell of Mii-dera”, one of the Eight Views of Omi

The three-story pagoda is the symbol of Takahata

An aquarium characterized by its tanks reproducing the natural environment

Displaying works by master artists

Traditional Japanese bathhouses(SENTO).

Lava caves created in 864 AD by a Mount Fuji eruption from its flank volcano, Nagao-san.

Learn from the Great Hanshin Awaji Earthquake

A beautiful castle otherwise known as Shirasagi-jo Castle. It was Japan's first UNESCO World Heritage site.