Hidaka / Hanno

Top Things to do

• Musashi-Kyuryo National Government Park

  4.5

  122 Reviews

  Saitama Pref. Hikigunnamegawamachi Yamata 1920

  Japan’s first National Park. It was created as part of the centennial celebration of the Meiji Restoration. Roughly three million square meters in size—enough to fit about sixty-five Tokyo Domes—the park includes Japan’s largest air trampoline, a playground, athletic equipment, a barbeque spot, an area for viewing all kinds of plant life, from cherry trees to camellia and plum trees. There is also a cycling course and other facilities. You can enjoy them all regardless of age all day in the park.

• Koma-jinja Shrine

  4.0

  83 Reviews

  Saitama Pref. Hidakashi Nihori 833

  The Koma-jinja Shrine enshrines Komano Jakko, a settler from Kokuri that was a flourishing northern region of the Korean Peninsula. The shrine celebrated its 1300th year since Koma County was established in 2016. The shrine’s cultural artifacts are exhibited with a chosen theme every year in September in the Koma-jinja meeting hall main room.

• Roadside Station Ichigo no Sato Yoshimi

  4.0

  8 Reviews

  Saitama Pref. Hikigunyoshimimachi Kubota 1737

  A roadside station located in Kubota, Yoshimi Town, Hiki County. The station has a farm fresh shop selling seasonal agricultural products such as fresh vegetables from local farms and strawberries, a Yoshimi specialty product; a yakitori chicken skewer restaurant which also offers skewers made with cheek and temple pork meat, a local delicacy; a ramen restaurant; and a soft serve ice cream shop. There's also a local specialty products shop selling strawberry jams and sweets, a restaurant offering udon noodles made with local flour, and a classroom where you can learn how to make handmade udon noodles (advance reservation required).

• Saitama Children’s Zoo

  Saitama Pref. Higashimatsuyamashi Iwadono 554

  Located among gentle hills, this largest zoo in the prefecture is home to over 200 popular animal species (1,600 total animals), including koalas, lesser pandas, and capybaras. There are lots of activities to try too, like riding ponies, petting monkeys and marmosets, and milking animals. You can watch the cute capybaras play in a rock bath during winter.

• Tamagawa Onsen

  3.5

  6 Reviews

  Saitama Pref. Hikiguntokigawamachi Tamagawa 3700

  A hot spring bathhouse located in Tamagawa, Tokigawa Town, Hiki County. The restaurant's two bathing areas -the Akira no Yu and the Nagomi no Yu-are fed by a hot spring welling up from 1,700 meters underneath the ground. Which area is the men's and which is the women's alternates on a weekly basis. Designed around a retro, Showa-period atmosphere, the bathhouse has a shop selling some 60 varieties of local carbonated beverages, a wood paneled library, and restaurant serving home-style cooking.

• Kawara no Yu Hot Springs

  3.5

  18 Reviews

  Saitama Pref. Hikigunogawamachi Kakuyama 26-2

  The Kawara no Yu is the ‘hot springs for beauties’ reputed to make one’s skin very supple from the alkaline simple thermal spring water naturally gushing at PH 10.0. In addition to the thermal springs, the restaurant is popular for its discriminating menu replete with fresh locally grown produce, and the specialty of Ogawa Town, hand-made soba noodles.

• Ogose Bairin Plum Forest

  Saitama Pref. Irumagunogosemachi Douyama

  Ogose Bairin is one of Kanto’s 3 biggest plum forests. Among the 1,000 plum trees are some planted 650 years ago. There is a popular Plum Blossom Festival around the best viewing season, from mid-February to late March.

• Kinchakuda

  Saitama Pref. Hidakashi Komahongou 125-2 (purse field management office)

  A park shaped like a kinchaku (traditional purse/pouch) located on level ground and surrounded by the Koma River in Hidaka City, Saitama Prefecture. In autumn, the park explodes with the blossoms of some 5 million red spider lilies, their scarlet carpet creating a fantastical landscape. Situated amongst a forest of trees, such a vast amount of red spider lilies is found almost nowhere else in Japan. The Aiai Bridge provided for pedestrians to cross the Koma River is the longest wooden truss bridge in Japan.

• Tove Jansson Akebono Children's Forest Park

  Saitama Pref. Hannoushi Azu 893-1

  Tove Jansson Akebono Children's Forest Park is a Moomin-themed park in an attractively planted environment. The Moomin Mansion, three stories plus a basement, a large, warm, wooden building centered on a fireplace, is a place for excited children to explore. The Forest House is a museum that displays materials about the life of children's author Tove Jansen, and there is a library on the second floor. Near the entrance to the park is a children's theater, popular with children for the musical events and story readings are held.