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The Best Attractions In Saitama Prefecture

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Saitama Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region. The capital is the city of Saitama.This prefecture is part of the Greater Tokyo Area, and most of Saitama's cities can be described as suburbs of Tokyo, to which a large number of residents commute each day.
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The Best Attractions In Saitama Prefecture

  • 1. Hikawa Shrine Saitama
    Hikawa Shrine is a Japanese Shinto shrine in Omiya-ku, Saitama, Saitama Prefecture. Surrounding the shrine is a large park in which there are many cherry blossom trees, a zoo and a museum. The district of Omiya, literally Great Shrine, derives from the special favor shown by Emperor Meiji, who raised Hikawa above all other shrines in the Kantō region.Standing behind three torii gates in a wood with many ancient Japanese elms, it claims to have a 2400-year history.
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  • 2. The Railway Museum Saitama
    Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies off the eastern coast of the Asian continent and stretches from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and the Philippine Sea in the south. The kanji that make up Japan's name mean sun origin, and it is often called the Land of the Rising Sun. Japan is a stratovolcanic archipelago consisting of about 6,852 islands. The four largest are Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu, and Shikoku, which make up about ninety-seven percent of Japan's land area and often are referred to as home islands. The country is divided into 47 prefectures in eight regions, with Hokkaido being the northernmost prefecture and Okinawa being the southernmost one. The population of 127 million is the world's tenth largest. Japanese make u...
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  • 4. Tokorozawa Aviation Memorial Park Tokorozawa
    The Tokorozawa Aviation Museum is a museum located in the city of Tokorozawa, Saitama dedicated to the history of aviation in Japan. It contains aircraft and other displays and an IMAX theatre. Located on the site of Japan's first airfield which started operations in 1911 with a flight by Yoshitoshi Tokugawa, the original single runway is still visible and has been incorporated into a larger multifunction park adjacent to the museum. It is located in the Tokorozawa Aviation Memorial Park.
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  • 8. Chichibu Shrine Chichibu
    Chichibu is a city located in Saitama Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 December 2015, the city had an estimated population of 63,358, and a population density of 110 persons per km2. Its total area is 577.83 km2. Chichibu was incorporated as a city on April 1, 1950, although the region had already existed for hundreds of years and had developed many local traditions. Since that time, the area of the city has grown through a series of mergers, the most recent in 2005.
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  • 9. Kawagoe Hikawa Shrine Kawagoe
    The Kawagoe Festival, officially named the Kawagoe Hikawa Festival is a traditional Japanese festival held annually on the third weekend of October in Kawagoe City, Saitama Prefecture. It is Kawagoe's biggest event and the festival has more than a 360-year history. It attracts around one million tourists during the two days. The grand pageant of the festival takes place in the castle town of Kawagoe including in the old storehouse zone called Kurazukuri Zone. In 2005, the festival was designated as a National Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property under the title of Kawagoe Hikawa Festival Float Event, and in 2016, the festival was put on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage list as one of the Yama, Hoko, Yatai, Float Festivals in Japan.
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  • 12. Japan Mint Saitama Museum Saitama
    The Japan Science and Technology Agency aims to build infrastructure that supports knowledge creation and dissemination in Japan. It is one of the National Research and Development Agencies, overseen by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology and the Council for Science, Technology and Innovation . It operates from headquarters in Kawaguchi, Saitama in the Greater Tokyo Area, and in Chiyoda in central Tokyo. Medical scientist Michinari Hamaguchi serves as president.The agency formed in 2003, as successor to the Japan Science and Technology Corporation. The corporation had formed in 1996 through the merging of the Japan Information Center of Science and Technology and the Research Development Corporation of Japan .Among other activities, the agency runs J-STAGE, a...
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