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  • Musashi Ichinomiya Hikawa-jinja Shrine
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    4.5
    447 Reviews
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    Saitama Pref. Saitamashi Omiya-ku Takahanachou 1-407
    Founded over 2,400 years ago, Hikawa-jinja Shrine is famous for its “Hikawa Gagaku-kai,” which was organized in 1935. This society performs ancient court music known as gagaku at the shrine’s festivals. Although it is also held in the spring, the annual kangetsu (moon viewing) gagaku performance at the shrine’s music pavilion in the fall lets visitors enjoy a fantastic autumn evening with a performance that blends kagura and kangen dance.

    境内の周囲は住宅地であるのに、境内は木々が生い茂っている自然豊かな神社です。武蔵国の中で最も格式の高い一宮の神社ですが、いわゆる高い格式に伴う排他的な雰囲気は無く、1時間もあれば全て周遊できる程度の境内の広さです。年末年始であれば初詣客で混雑しますが、それ以外の季節は特に神事を始めイベントでもない限り、休日でもそれほど混雑しておらず、ゆっくりと境内を散策することが出来ます。 神社そのものは大宮駅...

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  • Saitama Super Arena
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    Saitama Pref. Saitamashi Chuou-ku Shintoshin 8
    Saitama Super Arena is used as the site for many concerts and sporting events. Keyaki Hiroba, located adjacent to the arena and stadium, contains a number of cafes, taverns, and other eating and drinking establishments. The presence of a convenience store and a drugstore make the site especially convenient. Inside the arena is a temporary daycare center, so that parents can enjoy concerts and events without worrying about their children.
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  • The Railway Museum
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    Saitama Pref. Saitamashi Omiya-ku Onarichou 3-47
    The Railway Museum is located near Tetsudo Hakubutsukan Station in Onaricho, Omiya Ward, Saitama City. Built to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the founding of JR East, The Railway Museum undertakes preservation and research work in relation to both Japanese and international railways. Using exhibits of real railway locomotives from different eras, as well as train-driving simulators etc., the Museum enables visitors to learn about both the history of railways and the latest rail technology.
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  • The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama
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    4.0
    54 Reviews
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    Saitama Pref. Saitamashi Urawa-ku Tokiwa 9-30-1
    An art museum located in Kitaurawa Park along National Route 463 in Tokiwa, Urawa Ward, Saitama City. The museum's collection includes works by Monet, Chagall, and Picasso, as well as Japanese modern artists. The content of the museum's standing exhibition is changed four times a year. The museum also holds five special exhibitions a year as well as workshops, lectures, museum concerts, and other events. In addition, there's a museum shop and Italian restaurant.

    ずいぶん久しぶりに埼玉県立近代美術館に行きました。1Fは常設展のMOMASコレクション、2Fは企画展です。MOMASとは、埼玉県立近代美術館（The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama）のことです。入館料は常設展のみだと200円、企画展も合わせると1,200円でした。わずか200円で気軽に見ることができるので、ぶらっと立ち寄るのも良いと思います。

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  • Sonic City
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    Saitama Pref. Saitamashi Omiya-ku Sakuragichou 1-7-5
    Sonic City, with its large and small halls, international conference room, exhibition hall, citizen’s halls, large and small conference rooms, and municipal hotel, is a comprehensive convention facility that hosts various events and exhibitions. Its outstanding location is extremely convenient, just three minutes on foot across the pedestrian deck that links to JR and Tobu Urban Park Line Omiya Station’s west entrance. Check out the many benefits of joining Sonic City’s “Hall Members” plan.
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  • Saitama Prefectural Museum of History and Folklore
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    4.0
    34 Reviews
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    Saitama Pref. Saitamashi Omiya-ku Takahanachou 4-219
    A museum located in Omiya Park along the industrial road in Takahana-cho, Omiya Ward, Saitama City. The museum collects and researches items relating to the history, folk customs, and art of Saitama. The museum's standing exhibition looks at the lifestyles and culture of the people of Saitama and it also holds special exhibitions on the history and folk customs of the prefecture.

    Learning the history of Saitama. Total of 10 halls for the permanent exhibition. Ticket for permanent exhibition is ¥300, permanent and special exhibitions (on kimono) cost ¥400.

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  • Musashi Ichinomiya Hikawa Nyotai Shrine
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    4.0
    31 Reviews
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    Saitama Pref. Saitamashi Midori-ku Miyamoto 2-17-1
    A Shinto shrine located in 2-Chome Miyamoto, Midori Ward, Saitama City. The shrine is dedicated to gods such as Kushinadahime-no-Mikoto. Warm climate plants grow thickly here, and the shrine's grounds have been designated a Prefectural Natural Monument as well as Furusato no Mori forest. A Nagoshi no Harae event is held here on July 31 in which participants take dolls into which their sins and shames have been transferred to and let them drift away on a river, then pass through a large ring placed in the shrine's torii gate to pray for good health.

    氷川女体神社（女体社）は、大宮氷川神社（男体社）中山神社（簸王子社）と合わせて武蔵国一宮と称されています。氷川三社はそれぞれ離れた場所に鎮座していますが、大宮氷川神社から見て中山神社と氷川女体神社は、冬至の日の出の方向に一直線に並んでいます。大宮氷川神社から女体神社までこの光の道に沿って一直線に歩くことはできませんが、日本一長い桜回廊が、大宮氷川神社と氷川女体神社を繋いでいますので、脚力と時間があ...

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  • Chinjyu Hikawa-jinja Shrine
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    4.0
    18 Reviews
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    Saitama Pref. Kawaguchishi Aoki 5-18-48
    A Shinto shrine located in 5-Chome Aoki, Kawaguchi City. The shrine was founded in the early Muromachi period some 700 years ago. Dedicated to Susanoo-no-Mikoto, who defeated the eight headed serpent Yamata no Orochi, and his wife Kushinadahime no Mikoto, the shrine is believed to grant worshippers purification from evil influences, protection from disaster, luck in finding love and marriage, matrimonial harmony, and aid in childrearing.

    涼し気な風鈴や、鯉の恋みくじを釣り上げるという変わったおみくじがあって、とても可愛いかったです。 神社の周りにもオシャレなカフェや、色んな食べ歩きができるお店があってとても楽しい1日になりました！

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  • Saitama Municipal Youth Astronomical Museum
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    3.5
    17 Reviews
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    Saitama Pref. Saitamashi Urawa-ku Komaba 2-3-45
    This science hall in Urawa Ward, Saitama City, Saitama Prefecture has a planetarium attached. The main science hall offers equipment and lab facilities for elementary and middle school science courses, and also holds events such as science shows. In the planetarium, the first half of the show features guides explaining the night sky, while the second half comprises video displays.

    プラレタリウムが主な見どころですが小さい場所ですが地元の小中学校の社会科見学コースでもあります。駒場競技場横にあります。

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  • Saitama City Museum
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    4.0
    15 Reviews
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    Saitama Saitama-shi Omiya-ku Takahanacho 2-1-2
    A municipal museum that collects, preserves, and exhibits historical, archeological, folk, and other materials related to Saitama City. Their permanent exhibit looks at the history and culture of Saitama City and you can enjoy learning about the local area with a hands-on area. The museum also holds special events including special exhibits in the fall, themed exhibits in the spring, a Summer-Vacation Children's Museum, a winter Ancient tools and Lifestyles exhibit, all sorts of hands-on learning classrooms, ancient literature lectures, and community college level history courses amongst others.

    さいたま市周囲の有史以前からの歴史を紹介した展示物が中心です。昭和時代の手作り玩具や竿秤、石臼、薬研の体験もできます。許可を受ければないぶの撮影も可能です。

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  • Iwatsuki Sochinjyu Hisaizu Shrine
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    4.0
    13 Reviews
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    Saitama Pref. Saitamashi Iwatsuki-ku Miyachou 2-6-55
    A Shinto shrine located in 2-Chome Miya-cho, Iwatsuki Ward, Saitama City. The shrine was established to venerate Okuninushi-no-Mikoto some 1,500 years ago by the Izumo Hajiu clan and came to serve as the guardian shrine of the Iwatsuki area. Surrounded by lush forest, the grounds are also known as a treasure trove of wild birds.

    近くに行く用事があったため、googleでパワースポット検索の結果、久伊豆神社訪問。 孔雀や風鈴など想像以上の良い神社でした。 真夏で気温も35度以上の中、神社独特な静寂さがありまた訪問したいと思う場所

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  • Skip City Sai-No-Kuni Visual Plaza Visual Museum
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    4.0
    10 Reviews
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    Saitama Pref. Kawaguchishi Kamiaoki 3-12-63 Ayano country visual plaza
    An interactive museum dedicated to visual media located in Sai-no-Kuni Visual Plaza in 3-Chome Kamiaoki, Kawaguchi City. The museum's standing exhibition is filled with interactive exhibits which teach about the history of movies as well as how movies are made, and visitors can see what it's like to film, combine clips together, make a cartoon, and create projection mapping. The museum also holds special exhibitions concerning visual media.

    科学館とハシゴ。アフレコ体験や編集などとてもとても楽しめます！時間も結構持つので小学生にオススメです。

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  • Mint Museum of Saitama Branch
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    4.5
    19 Reviews
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    Saitama Saitama-shi Omiya-ku Kitabukurocho 1-190-22
    A museum attached to the Mint Bureau Saitama Branch, which relocated from Toshima, Tokyo to Saitama City in 2016. Nearly 1000 different items are on display including all prior commemorative coins, medals, Olympic medals, and ancient coins. On weekends and holidays they offer guided tours as well as quiz shows aimed towards elementary and middle school students.

    Free entry. Best museum visit so far, because the staff were patient to explain in English and proactively pointed areas that i should see, yet gave space for me to explore the tour myself.

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  • Omiya Bonsai Art Museum, Saitama
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    Saitama Pref. Saitamashi Kita-ku Torochou 2-24-3
    "A bonsai art museum located in 2-Chome Toro-cho, Kita Ward, Saitama City a short walk from Omiya Bonsai Village, a mecca for bonsai-lovers. The museum's collection includes bonsai as well as vessels for holding bonsai, visually striking ""suiseki"" stones, and paintings. Over 40 bonsai are on display in the museum's bonsai garden. The museum also displays items from its collection in its gallery area and also holds special, bonsai-related exhibitions."
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  • Urawa Kurashi No Hakubutsukan Minkaen
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    4.0
    18 Reviews
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    Saitama Pref. Saitamashi Midori-ku Shimoyamaguchishinden 1179-1
    This museum is in Midori Ward, Saitama City, Saitama Prefecture. It is dedicated to preserving the traditional city building techniques used in the making of the rebuilt structure it is housed in. It also gathers, preserves and displays tools from historical manufacture and daily life as part of its folk history collection. The grounds also hold an activity hall teaching about traditional lifestyle in a restored private house.

    浦和くらしの博物館民家園は、主に江戸時代に建てられた浦和地区に残っている建造物を移築し集めた園で。無料で自由に見ることができます。建物は7つあり、国登録文化財の旧浦和市農業協同組合三室支所倉庫のみが大正時代に大正時代に建てられたもので、その他は江戸時代に建てられたものです。旧浦和市農業協同組合三室支所倉庫内は展示室になっていました。旧高野家住宅は煎餅店。旧高野家住宅は雑貨店の蔵。旧野口家住宅は寺の...

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  • Saitama City Manga Museum
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    3.5
    17 Reviews
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    Saitama Saitama-shi Kita-ku Bonsaicho 150
    This was Japan's first art museum dedicated to manga comics. It was founded in 1966 on the former site of the mansion that Kitazawa Rakuten, founding father of modern Japanese manga, spent his later years with the goal of promoting the growth of manga culture. On display are the works of Kitazawa Rakuten as well as the works of other modern manga artists and they also hold various manga related events.

    通常展示は少ないので企画展によって評価が分かれるかと思います。 お庭に出ることができて天気の良い日はとても気持ちが良いです。

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  • Saitama Iwatsuki Ningyo Museum
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    3.0
    2 Reviews
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    Saitama Saitama-shi Iwatsuki-ku Honcho 6-1-1

    2020年2月に開館した；人形文化に関する博物館です。内部は展示室1：埼玉の人形作り、展示室2：コレクション展示、展示室3：企画展（1月30日-3月21日；天野家の雛祭りが開催予定でしたが 新型コロナウイルス感染予防を考慮し 延期になっています 添付 写真参照）。展示室2の展示点数は多くありませんが 江戸時代の[這子（ほうこ）][次郎左衛門頭立雛][衣装人形][嵯峨人形]等が展示してありました...

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  • Saitama City Urawa Museum
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    3.5
    2 Reviews
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    Saitama Saitama-shi Midori-ku Mi Muro 2458
    A museum with displays centered around the theme of demonstrating the lifestyle of those from the Urawa region, located in the restored central section of the former Saitama Prefecture Normal School (Hoshokaku Building) that was built in 1878. On display are documents related to the Minuma Ferry and the nationally designated historical site Minuma Tsusenbori locks as well as materials related to archeological finds from the Baba Omuro-yama archeological site including surface-drawings, earthenware, clay figures and decorations and materials about the Hoshokaku building.

    それほど広くなく収蔵品の数も多くありませんが、浦和近辺の移り変わりや歴史を中心とした展示でした。裏手にきれいなモクレンの花が咲いていました。

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  • Kawaguchi Science Museum
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    Saitama Pref. Kawaguchishi Kamiaoki Within 3-12-18 SKIP City
    This science hall is in Kawaguchi City, Saitama Prefecture. It has a variety of facilities including a planetarium and astronomical observatory, with exhibitions of astronomical materials. There are also exhibits and research into power, light, the atmosphere, water, life, and more. There is an automatic model railway, too, so there are all kinds of study and activity to look into. What's more, there are science shows and events on holidays.
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  • Togyoku Doll Museum
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    Saitama Saitama-shi Iwatsuki-ku Honcho 3-2 Higashi Tama Building 4F
    A doll museum showing off the outstanding collection of the Togyoku Doll manufacturer. The collection on display includes Gosho Ningyo palace dolls, Hina dolls, traditional Hagoita battledore rackets, Gogatsu Ningyo warrior dolls, Isho Ningyo fashion dolls, puppets, and karakuri Japanese automata, and includes masterpieces by modern master craftsmen and even foreign dolls. You can take a tour of the doll workshops, try a doll making class, and also purchase popular Japanese-style accessories.
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