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埼玉県 · Art & museums

Heirinji

新座市西部

A Zen temple inside 43 hectares of coppice woodland, itself a Natural Monument.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Kasukabe Paulownia Chests

春日部市東部

Said to have begun when Toshogu craftsmen made chests from leftover paulownia.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Konosu Hina Doll Festival

鴻巣市県央

A doll-making town of 380 years, stacking 1,800 dolls on a seven-metre tier.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Iwatsuki Dolls

さいたま市県央

Faces built up in layers of shell white over paulownia paste, a trade traced to the Toshogu craftsmen.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Soka Matsubara

草加市東部

A kilometre and a half of pines along the old Nikko highway, walked by Basho and now a Place of Scenic Beauty.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Saitama Museum of Rivers

寄居町県北

Home to one of Japan's largest wooden waterwheels, telling the land's story through its rivers.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Hachigata Castle Ruins

寄居町県北

Set between a river cliff and a ravine, its earthworks preserve the engineering of Sengoku castle-building.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Ogano Kabuki

小鹿野町秩父

Festival floats are reassembled into a stage; townspeople act, and make the sets and costumes themselves.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Iwadatami of Nagatoro

長瀞町秩父

Rock metamorphosed deep underground, now surfacing along the river in slabs like laid tatami.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Tokorozawa Aviation Museum

所沢市西部

On the site of Japan's first airfield, tracing how aircraft form changed through real machines.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Koma Shrine and District

日高市西部

A district settled by refugees from Goguryeo; the thatched Koma house still stands.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Yoshimi Hyakuana

吉見町県央

Two hundred and nineteen tomb chambers honeycombing a tuff hillside - a burial ground with the force of a landscape.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Kumagaya Dyeing

熊谷市県北

Dyeing that grew on the Arakawa river, keeping both stencil work and hand-painted yuzen.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Omiya Hikawa Approach

さいたま市県央

A two-kilometre approach, among Japan's longest, forming a green axis through the modern city.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Honjo Waseda Museum

本庄市県北

Jointly run by a university and a city, sharing the work of storage and display.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Farmstead Woods of Kawajima

川島町県央

Storehouses raised on flood mounds and homes ringed by windbreak woods - living with water made visible.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Chichibu 34 Kannon Temples

秩父市秩父

A hundred-kilometre pilgrimage linking Kannon halls scattered through mountains and valleys.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Nishikawa Timber of Hanno

飯能市西部

Timber rafted down to Edo from these hills; sawmills and woodworkers still shape the town.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Safflower of Ageo and Okegawa

桶川市県央

Second only to Mogami as a safflower district, sending rouge dye to Edo; the merchants' storehouses remain.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Warabi Post Town

蕨市県央

A post town on the Nakasendo, its street plan still legible in the surviving townhouses.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Sayama Tea Fields

入間市西部

Tea rows follow the contours like drawn lines - geometry produced by agricultural logic.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Joinery of Tokigawa

ときがわ町西部

A joinery town whose craftsmen now fit out public buildings with local timber.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Waterways of Misato and Yashio

三郷市東部

The rivers that fed Edo; their dykes and sluices still divide the flat landscape.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Omiya Bonsai Village

さいたま市県央

Founded by growers who left Tokyo after the 1923 quake, with street widths and hedges written into its rules.