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埼玉県 · Industry & crafts
Inside 秩父鉄道SLパレオエクスプレス: Industry, Technology and Local Knowledge in 埼玉県
秩父鉄道SLパレオエクスプレス offers international visitors a practical gateway into 埼玉県's 蒸気機関車・鉄道観光. The site should be understood as a connected system of resour…
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Inside 東武鉄道南栗橋車両管区: Industry, Technology and Local Knowledge in 埼玉県
東武鉄道南栗橋車両管区 offers international visitors a practical gateway into 埼玉県's 鉄道車両・保守. The site should be understood as a connected system of resources, sk…
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Inside さいたま市桜環境センター: Industry, Technology and Local Knowledge in 埼玉県
さいたま市桜環境センター offers international visitors a practical gateway into 埼玉県's 廃棄物処理・資源循環. The site should be understood as a connected system of resources…
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Inside 彩湖自然学習センター: Industry, Technology and Local Knowledge in 埼玉県
彩湖自然学習センター offers international visitors a practical gateway into 埼玉県's 荒川調節池・環境教育. The site should be understood as a connected system of resources, …
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Hanyu Service Area (Inbound), Onihei Edo-dokoro
羽生市 食べる/飲食店/買う/お菓子・スイーツ/物産品・直売所/その他/道の駅・PA/東部エリア
A motorway rest area recreating the Edo of Shotaro Ikenami's Onihei Hankacho, modelled on the row of stalls at Ryogoku Hirokoji.
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Kinchakuda Higanbana Park
日高市 観る/景色・景観/花/公園・庭園/西部エリア
A flat of about 500 metres across, made by a bend in the Koma River. The name comes from its purse-like shape. Known for red spider lilies in autumn.
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Three Prefecture Border
加須市 観る/景色・景観/東部エリア
Where Tochigi, Gunma and Saitama meet in the middle of a rice paddy. Work on the Watarase River moved the point from the water onto land.
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Banba-dori
秩父市 観る/景色・景観/秩父エリア
The stone-paved approach from Ohanabatake Station to Chichibu Shrine, where some registered cultural-property buildings still trade as shops.
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Nagatoro gorge (Nagatoro Iwadatami) River Cruise
長瀞町 観る/景色・景観/体験/レジャー施設/秩父エリア
A boat ride between rock shelves that are a special national natural monument. In winter the boats carry heated tables.
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Oshi Castle Ruins and Gyoda City Folk Museum
行田市 観る/景色・景観/美術館・博物館/歴史・文化施設/公園・庭園/体験/見学・体験施設/東部エリア
The floating castle that withstood Ishida Mitsunari's water attack, the model for the film The Floating Castle.
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吉見百穴
吉見町 観る/歴史・文化施設/西部エリア
Tunnel tombs from the late 6th to late 7th century. 219 can be identified, and luminous moss grows in some.
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Lake Sayama
所沢市 観る/景色・景観/花/西部エリア
A reservoir completed in 1934. Formally the Yamaguchi Reservoir, it was built to supply Tokyo with water.
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Gyoda City Haniwa Museum
行田市 体験/見学・体験施設/買う/物産品・直売所/東部エリア
Make a clay haniwa figure among the Saitama burial mounds. Shaping takes 90 to 120 minutes; firing takes about a month.
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Gyoda's World's Largest Rice-Paddy Art and Kodai Hasu-no-Sato
行田市 観る/景色・景観/花/美術館・博物館/公園・庭園/食べる/飲食店/体験/見学・体験施設/買う/お菓子・スイーツ/物産品・直売所/東部エリア
A picture drawn in a paddy with rice of four colours. About 1,000 people take part in the planting.
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Kashiya Yokocho
川越市 観る/景色・景観/食べる/飲食店/買う/お菓子・スイーツ/西部エリア
In the early Showa years more than 70 shops made sweets here; about 20 remain. One of the Environment Ministry's hundred fragrant landscapes.
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Sakitama Kofun Park
行田市 観る/祭り・伝統芸能/花/歴史・文化施設/公園・庭園/東部エリア
A special national historic site, with the Inariyama mound that yielded the national-treasure inscribed sword and Marohakayama, among the largest roun…
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鉄道博物館
さいたま市 観る/美術館・博物館/体験/見学・体験施設/レジャー施設/中央エリア
Opened in 2007 to mark 20 years of JR East. It is laid out in five parts: vehicles, history, work, science and the future.
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Ranzan Gorge
嵐山町 観る/景色・景観/公園・庭園/西部エリア
The Tsuki River turns through 180 degrees, leaving a peninsula of land. The name comes from a likeness to Arashiyama in Kyoto.
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Tamagawa Onsen (Showa-Retro Bathhouse)
ときがわ町 体験/日帰り入浴/西部エリア
Water rising from Paleozoic Chichibu strata 1,700 metres down. The men's and women's baths swap week by week.
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Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel
春日部市 観る/景色・景観/体験/見学・体験施設/東部エリア
A flood-control works whose surge tank is called the underground temple. Places once closed, such as the pump room, are now on the tour.
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National Musashi Hills Forest Park
滑川町 観る/公園・庭園/西部エリア
The first national park of its kind in Japan, laid out to mark a century since the Meiji Restoration. 304 hectares.
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Kamisato Cantare
上里町 食べる/飲食店/体験/見学・体験施設/レジャー施設/買う/お菓子・スイーツ/物産品・直売所/お酒/北部エリア
A confectionery factory shop. Items with nothing wrong but their looks are sold as outlet stock.
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Hiwada-san
日高市 観る/景色・景観/西部エリア
A 305-metre hill with a gentle women's path and a rocky men's path. On clear days Skytree shows from the top.
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Seibu-Chichibu Ekimae Onsen Matsuri-no-Yu
秩父市 食べる/飲食店/泊まる/宿泊施設/体験/日帰り入浴/買う/お菓子・スイーツ/物産品・直売所/お酒/秩父エリア
A bathing complex on the theme of Chichibu's festivals: four open-air and six indoor baths, with shopping and dining sections.
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