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- Sakitama Kofun Park
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4.0102 Reviews - Travel / Tourism
- Saitama Pref. Gyoudashi Sakitama 4834
- A public park situated along Prefectural Route 77 in Sama, Gyoda City. The park encloses the Sakitama Burial Mounds, a group of several large ancient burial mounds which includes the Maruhakayama Burial Mound and the Futagoyama Burial Mound. Park facilities include the Shogunyama Burial Mound Exhibit Hall, the Museum of the Sakitama Ancient Burial Mounds, a public square, botanical garden, and rest house. The park is also a popular destination for viewing cherry blossoms in the spring.
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Partial archaeological excavations have found that Inariyama Tumulus belongs to an important lord or owake who served Wakatakeru no Ookimi. Wakatakeru inscribed in the iron sword buried in the...
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- Menuma Shodenzan Kangi-in Temple
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4.081 Reviews - Travel / Tourism
- Saitama Kumagaya-shi Menuma 1511
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無料の駐車場があちこちにあります。 その周りには名物のお土産屋やお休み所がありました。縁結びの神様と豪華絢爛な歓喜院聖天堂です。 散歩コースにもなる貴惣門 中門 仁王門からの本殿。平和の塔や実盛公像などなど見どころがいっぱいです。 名物のでっけーお稲荷さんのお店は行列ができていました。
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- Fukaya Hanazono Onsen Hanayu no Mori
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4.051 Reviews - Accommodations / Hot Spring
- Saitama Pref. Fukayashi Hitomi Yakushido 888
- This hot spring facility is located in Fukaya City, Saitama Prefecture. A wide variety of baths can be enjoyed such as the natural outdoor hot spring erupting from 2,000 meters underground, a vase bath, lay-down bath and Japanese cypress wood bath. The spring quality is composed of sodium chloride which is said to be effective for nerve pain, muscle pain and motor paralysis. In addition to hot springs, it also has a sauna and bedrock bath.
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ゴルフ場が併設されている温泉施設です。 ツツジに囲まれたエントランスから雰囲気があります。 ナトリウム塩化物泉の温泉は、湯加減が良く、身体の疲れを癒すのに最適でした。 森に囲まれた露天風呂は最高です。 野鳥を眺めながら至福の時間を過ごせました^_^ 休憩所も充実しており、ちょっとした旅館に来たような気持ちになりました。
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- Fukaya Green Park AQUA PARADISE Patio
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3.541 Reviews - Leisure / Hobbies
- Saitama Fukaya-shi Kashiai 763
- The popular Aqua Paradise Patio, which features the largest indoor pool in the North Kanto area, was modeled after resorts on the southern European Mediterranean coast. It hosts many free lessons, including some out of water, like their popular hula dancing and yoga. These lessons are as fun as frolicking in their wave pool, wading river, or on the water slide. (Closed over an extended period in February for inspection)
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子どもと12月に二人で行きました。中は明るく広くてとても気持ち良かったです。外にも広場？公園？があって、散歩もできました。
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- Saitama Museum of Rivers
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4.029 Reviews - Leisure / Hobbies
- Saitama Pref. Osatogunyorimachi Kozono 39
- Opened in 1997, the Saitama Museum of Rivers teaches visitors through a variety of workshops about the Arakawa River, Saitama’s most prominent waterway, as well as the relationship between rivers and people’s lives. Its Arakawa Wakuaku Land facility is open from the Spring Equinox until the mid-November. This extremely popular “water athletics” park lets visitors learn about the scientific properties of water, flood control, and water use first hand through various activities.
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本館は館内音響環境が悪く、壁面に反響してアナウンスが明瞭に聞こえない。 「鉄砲堤実演イベント」を観覧したが、小学生ならば早々に(よく聞こえないので)飽きてしまうだろう・・・という感じ。 如何にも“予算内で設備を作りました”・・・後は知りません・・・というのが見え見え。 館内案内人にPAがダメだというと「よくそのように言われます」とのこと。 心に訴えかけるものが無く、全く響かない案内。博物館員の方々...
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- Shibusawa Sakaeichi Memorial Hall
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3.540 Reviews - Travel / Tourism
- Saitama Fukaya-shi Shimode
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「近代日本資本主義の父」渋沢栄一さんの「渋沢栄一記念館」です。入場料は無料です。 この「渋沢栄一記念館」は、渋沢栄一さんの生まれた故郷の「公民館」の一部を「渋沢栄一記念館」にしているためか、とても手作り感のある雰囲気の記念館です。「公民館」の体育館もそのまま残っています。 そのような雰囲気の「渋沢栄一記念館」の展示は、、王道的な渋沢栄一さんの遺品、資料、年表などを紹介をしてあります。その中で印象深...
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- Saitama Prefectural Museum of the Sakitama Ancient Burial Mounds
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4.040 Reviews - Leisure / Hobbies
- Saitama Pref. Gyoudashi Sakitama 4834
- A museum located in Sakitama Kofun Park along Prefectural Route 77 in Sakitama, Gyoda City. The museum preserves historic sites in the prefecture including the National Historic Site-designated Sakitama Burial Mound Group. It also collects, researches, and displays relevant materials. Museum exhibits include the Kinsakumeitekken (gold-inlaid iron sword) and other National Treasure-designated artefacts exhumed from the Sakitama Inariyama Burial Mound displayed in the national treasure exhibition hall.
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横穴式と言う複数埋葬できるように作られた石室だそうですが、その石室を公開しており、他にはなかなかこういう施設は見当たらないのではないかと思う。盗掘された跡があった影響なのか、発掘された当時の写真や様子などからの解説が乏しいのが残念ですが、メインの博物館よりも別館で離れた所にあるこちらの方が、興味深い展示館でした。
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- Gyoda City Provincial Museum
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3.534 Reviews - Travel / Tourism
- Saitama Pref. Gyoudashi Honmaru 17-23
- The museum is located in the ruins of a castle completed in the Muromachi period by Akiyasu Narita. Although the castle was destroyed during the Meiji Restoration, it was a famous heavily fortified caste that did not fall during battles between the Uesugi and Hojo clans, and withstood a flooding attack by Mitsunari Ishida, dispatched by Hideyoshi Toyotomi during the suppression of the Kanto region. It was considered one of the seven main strongholds of the Kanto region. Currently, there is a reconstructed turret located on the site of the destroyed Oshi Castle in the Honmaru area, and you can see a full view of within Gyoda City from the top floor. At the folk museum located on the grounds, you can find exhibits about Gyoda’s history and local culture.
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市内循環バスの西循環コースで「忍城址・郷土博物館前」バス停からすぐ。「忍城バスターミナル」からでも徒歩5分ほど。 忍城本丸跡地にあり、復元された忍城御三階櫓も博物館の一部となっている。入館料200円。常設展示は撮影不可。館内には忍城の資料、埼玉古墳群の出土品、行田の産業として有名な足袋に関する資料などが展示されているが展示数はそれほど多くない。御三階櫓の最上階(4階)は展望室となっている。
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- Kannanoyu
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3.524 Reviews - Accommodations / Hot Spring
- Saitama Pref. Kodamagunkamikawamachi Kobama 1341
- This is the region's largest spa resort, boasting over 33,000 square meters, and in addition to eight types of bath, two types of saunas, a Finnish-style löyly sauna and bedrock bath. The Kanna-no-Yu spring bubbles up from 1,500 meters below ground, and is a hydrogen carbonate chloride spring, and is said to be effective in treating nerve pain and muscle soreness, and recovery from fatigue. There is also a carbonated spring, the Sparkling Shower bath which embraces the body with millions of fine bubbles, for even more variety.
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神泉は昨日、今日と休館だった。 そこで来る途中にあった白寿の湯に行くか、と友人が友人に探してもらったら、 白寿の湯の少し先、北にかんなの湯があると教えてもらいそこに行った。 天然温泉「かんなの湯」では後払いでした。 理由はレストランやみやげなどと入浴料を一緒に精算するからでした。 風呂は、普通、水、泡、極小泡、露天風呂、五右衛門風呂、赤外線サウナ、塩サウナがあり、一通り全部入った。 身体は洗う暇が...
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- Kumagaya Sakura Tsutsumi
- Travel / Tourism
- Saitama Pref. Kumagayashi Kawarachou Sakuragicho
- This popular cherry blossom viewing spot is on the Arakawa River in Kumagaya City. It covers about two kilometers of cherry trees along the levees downstream from Arakawa Bridge. It's been a popular spot since the Edo Period, and it has been chosen as one of Japan's Top 100 Cherry Blossom Viewing Sites. A cherry blossom festival is held in season, and they illuminate the trees in the evening. The Sakura Marathon takes place there in late March, and in the summer, it's the venue for the Kumagaya Fireworks.
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- Ofuro Cafe Hakuju-no-Yu
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3.58 Reviews - Accommodations / Hot Spring
- Saitama Pref. Kodamagunkamikawamachi Wataruse 337-1
- This hot spring bathhouse is situated on Prefectural Route 22 in Wataruse, Kamikawa Town, Kodama County, Saitama Prefecture. In addition to the Hakuju no Yu bathhouse, one of the top bathhouses in the Kanto region, facilities include a relaxation salon and the Tawaraya restaurant, which serves health-oriented dishes. In addition, rest facilities include a lounge with hammocks and sofas where you can relax and read comic books and magazines, a napping room, an outdoor cool air space, and fee-charging private rooms. The women's bathing area offers a free mud pack service which contains special koji malted rice.
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白寿の湯のレストラン。温泉の入館料が必要です。週末は人気で混みます。うまく入れるとラッキー。メニューは凝っていて、どれも美味しそうで迷います。オーダー後はひたすら待つ。待つ。待つ。待ち時間長いです。ドリンクさえなかなか...味はいいので気長に待ちましょう。クルミ蕎麦、美味しかったです。今は寒桜の蕎麦もいいですね。わさびも、唐揚げも、野菜の天婦羅も、お汁も、日本酒味比べもよかったです。ごちそうさまで...
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- Hachigata Castle History Museum
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3.514 Reviews - Leisure / Hobbies
- Saitama Pref. Osatogunyorimachi Hachigata 2496-2
- This historical museum is in Yorii Town, Osato County, Saitama Prefecture. It serves as both a guidance center for the Hachigata Castle ruins and an activity center to educate visitors about local culture and history. There is an exhibition room dedicated to Hachigata Castle's history and construction, and there are special exhibition rooms on the themes of spring and autumn. The lecture hall can also be used for meetings and club activities except commercial purposes.
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その城で戦闘が行われ、勝敗がどうだったか、それをしっかりと展示しています。城跡だけ巡ってもそのあたりのことは確定できません。 私の場合、まず城跡を一通り巡り、意外とこれは防御力低いんじゃないかなと思ったら、実際落城していました。予想を確かめられました。
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- Kanasana-jinja Shrine
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4.016 Reviews - Travel / Tourism
- Saitama Kodama-gun Kamikawamachi Ninomiya 751
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金鑽神社は山の中にひっそりと鎮座している神秘的な神社です。この神社は拝殿だけで本殿がない珍しい神社です。拝殿の裏山の標高300ｍ程の御室山（御室ヶ嶽）を神体山として祀っています。このような神社なので、足の不自由な方には大変かもしれませんが、参拝したあとに裏山に登ってみることをお薦めします。登っていくと国指定特別天然記念物の御嶽の鏡岩を見ることが出来ます。昔は鏡岩の上を歩くことが出来たのですが、今は...
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- Roadside Station Okabe
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- Saitama Pref. Fukayashi Oka 688-1
- A roadside station situated along the Fukaya By-pass in Oka, Fukaya City. Facilities include a farm fresh center selling local agricultural products such as Fukaya Welsh onions, other vegetables picked that very morning, and flowers; and a local specialty products center selling over 200 varieties of pickles, foods made with Fukaya Welsh onions, local liquors, popular local confections, and gelato. In addition, there's a restaurant which serves soba noodles delivered direct from Nagano as well as local dishes such as hot ni-boto and cold hiyajiru udon soups made with local vegetables and udon noodles; and a shop which sells Welsh onion and miso musubi and other musubi rice balls.
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- Oshi Castle Three Story Turret
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- Saitama Gyoda-shi Honmaru 17-23
- "A park maintained on the grounds of a castle situated along National Route 125 in Honmaru, Gyoda City. Oshi Castle, counted as one of the seven great castles of the Kanto region, is also known as the ""Floating Castle"" after it withstood Ishida Mitsunari's attempt to flood it during Toyotomi Hideyoshi's 1590 campaign to subjugate Kanto. The castle's citadel was demolished in the early Meiji period. Today, a three-tier reconstruction stands on the site; serving as part of the Gyoda City Folk Museum, inside visitors will find exhibits on the history and culture of Gyoda."
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- Kumagaya Onsen Yura no Sato
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4.05 Reviews - Accommodations / Hot Spring
- Saitama Pref. Kumagayashi Tsukimichou 2-1-65
- "A hot spring bathhouse located in 2-Chome Tsukimi-cho, Kumagaya City. Facilities include a natural hot spring outdoor bath as well as saunas and indoor bath facilities like a high-concentration carbonated spring bath and an ""attraction"" bath with various features. There's also a bedrock bath facility with free drink and magazine corners, a body care facility, and a room filled with comfortable reclining chairs. The adjoining restaurant serves draft beer, noodles, set meals, donburi rice bowls, a la carte dishes, and more."
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平日の昼行ったが、客がかなりいた。客のほとんどが地元の人らしかった。 内風呂は広いが、水道水のようだった。これで天然温泉と言うのなら、大量に加水しているはず。 露天風呂は、天然温泉で間違いないが小さめ。ゆったり出来ない。 埼玉県は、魅力的な日帰り温泉が多い。それらと較べると、物足りない。 わざわざ遠くから、行くほどのもんじゃない。
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- Katakura Silk Commemorative Museum
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4.012 Reviews - Travel / Tourism
- Saitama Kumagaya-shi Hongoku 2-135
- A museum located within the Katakura Industry's cocoon warehouse at their Kumagaya workshop, the last silk factory, which introduce the actual process used to produce the silk reeling machines and raw silk used in the factory and the life inside the factory. Visitors can see the actual machines that were used as well as a memorial gallery and the state of the warehouse as it was when operational. In 2007 it was designated as a site of Heritage of Industrial Modernization.
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もともとは片倉製糸工場があった場所なので、記念館があっても不思議ではないです。当時の貴重な資料がたくさん展示してあって、無料で見学できます。 大型産業の無い熊谷市にあっては大変大きな施設であったことが分かります。
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- Hanazono Forest
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- Saitama Pref. Fukayashi Omaeda 417
- Approximately two minutes by car from Hanazono Interchange, visitors love Hanazono Forest’s beautiful rose garden and succulent sweets. Enjoy their weekday sweets buffet while looking out over the blooming garden with its roses and herbs. There’s no time limit and it’s highly popular. You can also purchase freshly baked bread, rose motif sweets, and cakes.
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- Toki no Yu Onsen
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3.012 Reviews - Accommodations / Hot Spring
- Saitama Kumagaya-shi Oegawa 228
- One of the largest natural hot spring bath houses in the greater Tokyo area known for its large open-air baths. Along with gender segregated indoor cypress tubs, jet baths, saunas, and open-air baths they also have a swimsuit-required mixed bathing zone featuring and large open-air bath with an extravagant nine-meter tall waterfall shower. There's also a Drink Bar (Spa Bar) where you can enjoy a drink while looking out at the waterfall. The baths are fed by a sodium chloride spring. Day trip guests are also welcome.
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山奥にあるリゾート施設です。温泉を利用しました。良いお湯でしたがフロントから温泉まで距離があり歩きます。
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- Shorinji Temple
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4.58 Reviews - Travel / Tourism
- Saitama Osato-gun Yoriimachi Sueno 2072-1
- This temple is located in the Oaza Sueno area of Yorii-machi, Osato County. It was built in 1511, and in addition to being known as Gohyaku Rakanji Temple, it houses a thousand stone tablets of Kojin. There are also hiking courses on the grounds that overlook the rich nature of Chichibu.
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少林山の裏山の山頂には釈尊が祀られていました。山麓から山頂に向けて歩き始めるとすぐに、「五百羅漢」と「千体荒神」の分かれ道の道標があります。「五百羅漢」は山頂まで510余体の羅漢石仏が並んでいて、「千体荒神」は関東一と云われる960余の石碑が並んでいます。どちらに進んだらよいのか迷ってしまいますが、どちらに行っても山頂で合流するので大丈夫です。上りと下りで違う道を通れば両方を見ることができます。私...
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