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• Aeon Lake Town (イオンレイクタウン) Opened in 2008: among the largest shopping centres in Japan, three buildings.
• Dodaira Observatory (堂平天文台) National Observatory from 1962 to 2000: the 91 cm telescope is still in place.
• Edogawa Sports Park (江戸川運動公園) — Misato The Misato fireworks go off together with those of Nagareyama, on the other bank of the river.
• Hanno Riverbed (飯能河原) The river is free all year round: you pay only for parking, 1,000–1,500¥ a day.
• Hanno-Ginza Shotengai (飯能銀座商店街) Shopping street two minutes from the north exit of Hannō Station.
• Hata Tunnel (畑トンネル) Abandoned tunnel at 飯能市⁠大字下畑768.
• Higashi-Tokorozawa LED Manhole (光るマンホール) Twenty-eight LED manhole covers, the first in Japan, light up on the pavement every evening.
• Iruma City Museum — ALIT (入間市博物館) Iruma makes Sayama tea, one of Japan's ‘three great teas’ along with Uji and Shizuoka.
• Johnson Town (ジョンソンタウン) Twenty-three 1954 houses for USAF personnel are now rented out as cafés and shops.
• Kawagoe Hatsukari Junior High School (川越市立初雁中学校) A working junior high school in Kawagoe; the most convenient station is Kawagoeshi on the Tōbu Tōjō Line.
• Kawagoe Hikawa Shrine (川越氷川神社) The main hall became a national Important Cultural Property in May 2026.
• Kawagoe Kurazukuri Neighbourhood (小江戸) The Toki no Kane tower, 16 m high, is the fourth: rebuilt in 1894 after the fire.
• Kawagoe Sweets Alley — Kashiya Yokochō (菓子屋横丁) In the 1930s there were more than seventy sweet shops; today about twenty remain.
• Kinchakuda (巾着田) Five million red spider lilies bloom in September–October on the bend of the Koma River.
• Kita-in Temple (喜多院) The only surviving rooms of Edo Castle, moved here in 1638.
• Koma Shrine (高麗神社) Founded in 716 by 1,799 refugees from the Korean kingdom of Goguryeo, led by Prince Jakko.
• Metropolitan Area Outer Discharge Channel (首都圏外郭放水路) The first shaft drops 70 metres; the ‘underground temple’ tour lasts 55 minutes and costs 1,200¥.
• Misato Park A Saitama prefectural park stretching along the 小合溜井 (Koai-damei), a wetland created about 260 years ago between the Edo and Nakagawa…
• Misato Station — North Exit (三郷駅北口) Edogawa Sports Park, the viewing point for the fireworks, is about 750 metres away.
• Mitsumine Shrine (三峯神社) You borrow the guardian wolf amulet (御眷属) for a year, at 1100 m above sea level.
• Musashi Ichinomiya Hikawa Shrine (武蔵一宮氷川神社) The longest shrine approach in Japan: about 2 km, over 30 species of tree.
• Nagatoro Iwadatami (長瀞岩畳) Slabs of crystalline schist lifted from the Earth's crust: a national Natural Monument.
• Nikujiru Gyōza no Dandadan — Kawagoe (肉汁餃子のダンダダン 川越店) A branch of the gyoza chain founded in Chōfu in 2011, opened in Kawagoe on 27 November 2018 on Crea Mall, a few minutes' walk from Kawagoe…
• Ōmiya Bonsai Art Museum (さいたま市大宮盆栽美術館) The village began in 1923, with nursery growers who had fled Tokyo after the Kantō earthquake.
• Ōmiya Racoon (大宮ラクーンよしもと劇場) Entertainment complex one minute from the east exit of Ōmiya Station, with a theatre, an amusement arcade and restaurants.
• Ōmiya Railway Museum (鉄道博物館) 42 real trains on display, plus a 23x10-metre model railway on the second floor.
• Saitama Prefectural Arts High School (埼玉県立芸術総合高等学校) A public high school specialising in the arts (art, music, film, theatre) in Tokorozawa.
• Saitama Stadium 2002 (埼玉スタジアム2002) It hosted the Brazil–Turkey semi-final on 26 June 2002, in front of 61,058 spectators.
• Sakitama Kofun Park (さきたま古墳公園) The gold sword inscribed with 115 characters, excavated from the Inariyama mound, is a National Treasure.
• Sakurayama Tenbodai (桜山展望台) From its 189 m, on clear days you can see Fuji, Tsukuba and the Chichibu mountains all at once.
• Senba Hikawa Shrine (仙波氷川神社) Founded in 1069: it keeps the float that the Senba family brings to the Kawagoe Matsuri.
• Shibazakura Hill, Hitsujiyama Park (羊山公園 芝桜の丘) 400,000 shibazakura plants of ten varieties cover 17,600 m², from mid-April to early May.
• Surugadai University — Hanno Campus (駿河台大学) Hannō Campus of Surugadai University.
• Tokorozawa Station — west exit (所沢駅西口) Seibu Tokorozawa Station. It is not Shin-Tokorozawa (新所沢駅), which is a different station.
• Western-style House of the Former Ishikawa Silk Mill (旧石川組製糸西洋館) Built in 1921 by Ishikawa Ikutarō so as not to look shabby in front of foreign guests.

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