A quiet day in Kawagoe: Koedo storehouse streets, Kitain temple, and the loop bus
Kawagoe keeps a street of clay-walled merchant storehouses, a wooden bell tower that still sounds over the town, and a temple hall moved here from Edo Castle…
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Saitama
3 quiet, car-free day trips in Saitama — no rental car needed.
Mount Hodo (Hodosan): Hodosan Shrine, Seasonal Blossoms, and Views over Nagatoro
Mount Hodo is the flower mountain above Nagatoro — a standalone peak in Saitama's Chichibu district with an ornate shrine at its foot, a modest ropeway up its…
Nagatoro River Cruise: Wooden Boats, the Iwadatami Rock Terrace, and a Quiet Day on the Arakawa
Nagatoro is the closest place to Tokyo where you can drift down a real gorge in a wooden boat poled by a boatman — a river cruise that has been running since…