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Around Chichibu

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Chichibu Festival Museum

4.0

59 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Saitama Pref. Chichibushi Bambamachi 2-8

A museum which presents materials and live demonstrations relating to the Chichibu Night Festival, held each year on December 3 and one of the three largest float festivals in Japan. Making use of the latest technologies, the museum recreates the sights and sounds of the festival for visitors to enjoy. Visitors can also see historical materials up close. There’s a souvenir shop on the first floor selling souvenirs related to the festival as well as original museum merchandise.

A Small Museum, but does an excellent job of showing how dynamic this festival is! It is a Designated Cultural Treasure which you can experience here. We went on a weekday, not crowded, but the 3-D...
Chichibu Jibasan Center Bussankan

3.5

56 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Saitama Pref. Chichibushi Miyakawachou 1-7

A facility selling local specialty products which adjoins Chichibu Station in Miyakawa-cho, Chichibu City. Here visitors can purchase local agricultural products and farm foods, sake, confections, Chichibu-Meisen silk, Chichibu tsumugi pongee, and other crafts and local products. The facility's restaurant serves gozen meals made with local vegetables and Chichibu pork; waraji katsudon pork cutlet rice bowls a local Chichibu favorite; soba noodles made with locally grown ingredients; original sweets; and more. The facility also has a training hall and meeting rooms.

秩父鉄道の秩父駅から改札出てすぐ左へ行くと「じばさん商店」です。同じ建物内で直結しています。秩父の名産品がたくさん売っています。いつのまにか、リニューアルしていて、前とは変わってとても見やすくなっていました。売店もできて、座る箇所も増えて、綺麗になっていて利用しやすい施設に変わっています。
Saitama Museum of Natural History

4.0

32 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Saitama Pref. Chichibugunnagatoromachi Nagatoro 1417-1

This is a museum in Nagatoro, Nagatoro Town, Chichibu County. The museum collects as well as stores and researches natural materials of the area with the theme “from the past to the future, a 300 million year journey of Saitama and the coexistence of people and nature”. There is an earth science exhibition and a biological creature display as a permanent exhibit. Additionally, the museum holds exhibitions on the living biological creatures and minerals in the Saitama Chichibu area.

埼玉県に40年以上住んでますが、子供と初めて訪れました。他県の自然博物館に比べると小振りな博物館でしたが、秩父で発掘された化石から、大昔は海であったことがよく分かります。パレオパラドキシアの化石は大変興味深いです。秩父の自然や成り立ちを学べるので、秩父観光前に訪れると、秩父巡りがより楽しめると思います。
Komatsuzawa Leisure Farm

4.5

13 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Saitama Pref. Chichibugunyokozemachi Yokoze 1408

A place for experiencing lots of farm type activities for the family, the Komatsuzawa Leisure Farm offers fruit picking, beetle hunting, and soba making activities in each season. Families can enjoy lava rock barbecue, and seasonal mushroom soup, and Nagashi Somen cuisine served to you by allowing you to catch noodles floating down fresh water in front of you. This is one place you will want to enjoy all day with the meal and activity savings package.

秩父にある小松沢レジャー農園はいちご狩りや原木椎茸狩り、そば・うどん打ち体験が出来ます。敷地が広いので、予約なしで日曜日に伺いましたが、人気のいちご狩り体験ができました。品種はとちおとめで、12月上旬ですが、甘味と瑞々しさがあり美味しかったです。その後、貴重な原木椎茸を取って、売店で天ぷらにしてもらいました。採れたての椎茸は柔らかくて、臭みもなく絶品でした^_^ そば打ち体験は、イン...
Icicles of Ashigakubo

4.5

35 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Saitama prefecture Chichibu-gun Yokosecho

A 10 minute walks from Ashigakubo Station on the Seibu Chichibu Line. Together with the Icicles of Misotsuchi and the Onouchi Hyakkei Icicles, the Icicles of Ashigakubo are considered one of the three most spectacular icicle formations in Chichibuji area. Locals create the icicles by splashing water from a stream onto the side of a mountain, creating a giant, 30 meter tall icicle formation that makes for a stunning sight. Originally around 80 meters wide, today the icicle formation reaches up to 200 meters in width; this magical scene can also be viewed from the windows of passing trains. When in-season, the icicles are lit up with colorful lights from Friday to Sunday as well as on holidays. Handmade amazake sweet sake and black tea, a local specialty, are provided for free (excluding during illumination times).

秩父の宿のチェックイン時間まで時間があったので、通りがかりで、「道の駅果汁公園あしがくぼ」に寄りました。道の駅もその周辺も「あしがくぼの氷柱」の旗が沢山立っていて、急遽行ってみることしました。つれあいは道の駅での買い物のため、残りました。道の駅から鉄道線路方面に向かっている階段を上り、旗がある左に歩いて行ったら、駅があり、氷柱は反対の右側方面で、時間を10分位ロスしてしまいました。右側を行...
Forest Sons Nagatoro

4.0

13 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Saitama Pref. Chichibugunnagatoromachi Honnokami 363

A campground with all-weather camping facilities where visitors can enjoy full-on outdoor camping. Forest Sons Nagatoro is an American-style campground boasting the largest number of travel trailers and cottages in the prefecture. The ground also has a tent site and visitors can even just camp for the day before heading home. Customers staying in a trailer house or cottage receive a free entry ticket to the Mangan-no-Yu bathhouse, which features an outdoor bath with a view of the pure stream flowing through Okunagatoro Valley and Mangan Falls.

Booked Trailer B for a night, it’s our first time to be in an RV. It was a great experience, kids loved it. but it’s COVID season, pool and play area for kids are closed so kids got bored. Can’t swim...
Forest Adventure Chichibu

4.0

19 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Saitama Pref. Chichibushi Kuna 637-2 Chichibu Muse Park/In the forest of sports

Forest Adventure Chichibu is in the Sports Forest area of Chichibu Muse Park. This natural outdoor park uses the forest itself in its activities, and is one of the nation’s largest. It’s open to children from fourth grade up, and offers real adventure for anyone who wants to try!

指導員の指示通り遊んでいたら指を切断しました。私が叫ぶまで救急車も呼ばない。現場責任者は一切賠償しないと妻に言いきりました。昨日フォレストアドベンチャーの弁護士からきた書面内容を確認したが、当方には一切非はないとの事でした。つまり一切改善しないという事。これから何人犠牲になるのか。怒りしかありません。相手弁護士の書面には、SNSなどに載せると訴えると書いてあったが、真実を伝えるのがトリップアド...
Suisenji Temple

4.5

16 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Saitama Chichibu-gun Minanomachi Shimo-hinozawa 3522

This temple is located in Shimohinozawa, Minano Town, Chichibu County. The 34th temple on the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage, it is also the final temple on the 100 Kannon Pilgrimage along with the Saigoku 33 Kannon Pilgrimage and Bando 33 Kannon Pilgrimage. For the Osunafumi (sand stepping) on the grounds of the temple, sand from each of the 100 Kannon temples is gathered here, so by worshipping here, you will receive the divine blessing of having completed the 100 Kannon Pilgrimage.

札所34番の水潜寺さんへ行きました。道路から急な坂を上ると本殿にお参りできます。このお寺さんへ行きたいと思ったのは、本店の天井の絵が素敵だからです。この絵を切ることが出来て良かったです。天井にはたくさんの絵が描かれており、どれも独特で鳥類や動物などが描かれていました。これを拝むことが出来て満足です。また、行きたいと思います。
Chichibu Hodosan Zoo

3.5

32 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Saitama Pref. Chichibugunnagatoromachi Nagatoro 2209-6

Opened as a wild monkey park in 1960, the Chichibu Hodosan Zoo brings people and animals together in a lush, natural area and is particularly popular with children. Located at the top of 497 meter tall Mt. Hodo, visitors can have fun and take in the great outdoors. The zoo’s closing time varies by season; be sure to check before visiting.

宝登山ロープウェイ山頂駅から少し歩いたところにある小動物園です。小さい子供が楽しめる観光スポットが少ない秩父エリアでは、貴重な場所です。うさぎと触れ合えたり、猿に餌やりができました。山頂にあるので眺望がよく、ちょっとしたハイキング気分になれました。
Ashigakubo Fruit Park

Leisure / Hobbies

Saitama Pref. Chichibugunyokozemachi Ashigakubo 159

An area of fruit farms in Ashigakubo, Yokoze Town, Chichibu County. There are 13 farms in the area where visitors can pick strawberries from January through to the middle of May, plums in July to early August, and grapes from mid-August to mid-October.
Jorin-ji Temple

4.0

15 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Saitama Pref. Chichibushi Sakuragimachi 21-3

Jorin-ji tucked away in a residential area in Sakuragi-machi, Chichibu City is a temple of the Soto School. This historical temple is known as the 17th temple of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage, and it is said that it was the 1st temple in the Chichibu Kannon Pilgrimage Ranking List in 1488 which is a temple treasure in Hosho-ji Temple. In the precinct, there is a Kannon Hall which decorated with fretwork of flowers and birds on ranma openwork, and a rare temple bell (a prefecturally-designated Tangible Cultural Property) on which principal images for 100 holy places in Saigoku, Bando and Chichibu are embossed and goeika (a Buddhism poem) for each stamp office is carved.

本堂外側に天井画（但し描かれている内容は良くわからず）がありますが、本堂内部にも天井画がありこちらは建物内に描かれ内部照明が暗くしているせいか（或は近年修復作業が行われたのか）色彩を含め綺麗に残っています（添付写真参照）。但し内部照明を落としてあるので懐中電灯無しだと暗くて内部天井画はよく見えません（偶然私達は懐中電灯を所持していたので内部天井画を鑑賞することが出来まし...
Chichibu Onsen Mangan no Yu

Accommodations / Hot Spring

Saitama Pref. Chichibugunminanomachi Shimohinozawa 4000

Opened in 1997, Chichibu Onsen Mangan no Yu is a popular hot spring where you can enjoy three outdoor hot spring baths to revel in the natural scenery of the four seasons in Chichibu, as well as an indoor bath with large windows overlooking a purely Japanese-style garden. You can gaze at Mangantaki Falls from the three different outdoor baths. Try from a selection of more than 30 different local and seasonal dishes.
Muryozan Saiko-ji Temple (16th Temple)

4.0

14 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Saitama Pref. Chichibushi Nakamuramachi 4-8-21

This old temple of the Shingi Shingon sect of Buddhism was built to venerate the victims of the Mt. Asama eruption in 1783. It is the only fudasho in Chichibu that still has a fuda-do hall, and it is the sixteenth temple of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage. A peculiar temple in the country, it contains a corridor with replicas of the main statues found in each of the 88 Temples on the Shikoku Pilgrimage. With weeping cherry trees and peonies on the grounds, you’ll find beautiful flowers blooming every spring.

日本国内には多種多様な《大黒天》がありますが《酒樽》内に《大黒天》を祀っているのはこちらだけではないでしょうか？ [酒樽大黒天]を初めて鑑賞しましたが四国八十八ケ所の写し本尊がある[回廊堂]以上に深い印象が残ります。[酒樽大黒天]の左手にある説明文（添付写真参照）によると元々は《日本酒の仕込み樽》を利用し《茶室》として作られ、その後《大黒天》を祀ったところ招福の御利益があると多く...
Roadside Station Washi-no-Sato Higashichichibu

Transportation

Saitama Pref. Chichibugunhigashichichibumura Midou 441

A roadside station located in Mido, Higashichichibu Village, Chichibu County. Facilities include a farm fresh shop selling produce from nearby farms and local specialty products such as Japanese washi paper crafts; a restaurant serving handmade soba and udon noodles; and a food court where visitors can eat oyaki buns and char grilled with salt shioyaki style. There's also a washi paper workshop where visitors can watch washi being made and try making their own washi; another workshop where visitors can learn how to make soba noodles by hand; Japanese-style lodgings; The Furusato Bunka Denshukan building with a gallery, training facility, and exhibits on traditional industries; and a late Edo period washi papermaking factory which was dismantled and moved to the station's grounds.
Hoosan Iwanouedo Temple (20th Temple of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage)

4.0

9 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Saitama Pref. Chichibushi Terao 2169

"A Buddhist temple located in Terao, Chichibu City. A ""senbikizaru"" chandelier-like decoration hangs in the temple's Kannondo hall, while water from the Chisuiba spring is said to improve breast milk flow. This is the 20th temple of the Chichibu 34 Kannon pilgrimage; together with the Saigoku 33 Kannon pilgrimage in the Kinki region and the Bando 33 Kannon pilgrimage in the Kanto region, these three pilgrimages make up the Japan 100 Kannon pilgrimage."

岩之上堂は名前の通り崖の上にありますが、駐車場はさらに上にあります。初見が屋根と秩父の山々というビューになるので、ちょっと不思議な感じ。石段を下り、木々が茂る庭を抜け本堂へ。木造の味のある本堂ですが、なかは吊るし雛で溢れています。何かいわれがあるのかな。本堂の前に大きな紅葉の木があったので秋におすすめ。
Chichibu-Meisen Museum

4.0

16 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Saitama Pref. Chichibushi Kumagimachi 28-1

A museum dedicated to Chichibu-Meisen silk located in Kumagi-machi, Chichibu City. The museum contains examples of antique meisen silk, looms and other production equipment, materials on the history of Chichibu textiles, and old posters. The museum also works pass on the techniques of Chichibu Meisen. Visitors can try katazome stencil dyeing and weaving cloth by hand, or check out the museum shop. The museum's main building and factory building were originally built as the Saitama Prefectural Chichibu Industrial Testing Station in the early Showa period and are designated National Tangible Cultural Properties.

家内と秩父一泊旅行のさい、羊山公園から急坂を下りて到着しました。予備知識なしに訪れたので、銘仙の織物や和服の展示がメインかと思っていましたが、どうしてどうして、良い意味で期待が裏切られました。繭から糸を紡ぎ、糸を縒り、縦糸を1600本ならべて色図柄を捺染し、それを機織機で織り上げるという、秩父銘仙の工程の詳しい説明や、用いた装置・工具の実物がずらっと並び、私のような技術系の人間は、それだけでワクワ...
Wadono Orchards

4.0

3 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Saitama Pref. Chichibushi Kuroya 457-3

A three-minute walk from Wado-Kuroya Station on the Chichibu Line. Here you can enjoy quality strawberries carefully raised and managed using clean air, pure water, and the temperature differences between morning and night. The farm grows more than 10 varieties of strawberries, including Tochiotome and Akahoppe; the farm's original white strawberries have not yet been named. The farm grows its strawberries using raised planters and fully automatic growing systems in seven greenhouses, and, depending on the time of year, visitors can enjoy up to six strawberry varieties. The farm incorporates universal design principles, ensuring stroller and wheelchair users can easily enter and use the farm's facilities. The farm has been featured in local magazines and newspapers.

国道140号沿いにあります。日曜日の10時過ぎに到着しましたが、駐車場はほぼ満車でした。いちごのビニールハウスは7箇所程あり、道路を挟んだビニールハウスを案内されました。いちごの品種は紅ほっぺ。採れたてのいちごは、みずみずしくて甘味も充分あり最高です^_^ いちご狩りの食べ放題は30分ですが、充分お腹いっぱいにいちごを食べることが出来ました。子供も終始笑顔でいちご狩りを満喫して...
Takizawa Dam

Travel / Tourism

Saitama Chichibu-shi Otaki 3021
Chichibu Muse Park

Leisure / Hobbies

Saitama Pref. Chichibugunoganomachi Nagaru

This theme park, flourishing with greenery, displays a variety of flowers throughout the year, including cherry blossoms, daffodils and azaleas. In the fall, the three-kilometer long boulevard of Ginkgo trees is a glorious site to see. The park is full of children friendly activities, such as the Skytrain that runs through the park, and the children’s playground obstacles including a tall observatory.
Seitaisan Saizen-ji Temple (Eighth Temple of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage)

4.0

14 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Saitama Pref. Chichibugunyokozemachi Yokoze 598

"A Buddhist temple located in Yokoze Town, Chichibu County. Established in 1234, the temple enshrines an eleven faced, seated statue of Kannon known as the ""Mochiyama Kannon"" as well as a statue depicting the Amitabha triad. A huge, 600-year old maple tree designated a Natural Monument by the prefecture stands on the temple's grounds. This is the eighth temple of the Chichibu 34 Kannon pilgrimage; together with the Saigoku 33 Kannon pilgrimage in the Kinki region and the Bando 33 Kannon pilgrimage in the Kanto region, these three pilgrimages make up the Japan 100 Kannon pilgrimage."

1234年創建の臨済宗南禅寺派のお寺で、秩父観音霊場八番札所に指定されています。山門をくぐると石段を下っていくという変った造りで、本堂までの参道はきれいに清掃されていました。約600年と言われるコミネモミジの巨木がお寺のシンボルとなっているようで、秋には紅葉が楽しめそうです。本尊の阿弥陀三尊像はぼけ封じと延命長寿にご利益があるとされ、十一面観音と共に恵心僧都作と伝えられているほか、如意輪観音...

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Saitama Areas

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.