Saitama travel guides: Kawagoe’s Edo-era streets, the Chichibu hills, river valleys, and flower fields an easy train ride from Tokyo.
Just 30 minutes from the bustle of central Tokyo, the city of Kawagoe in Saitama Prefecture offers a journey back in time. For a very different day in the same prefecture, Saitama also has two autumn-leaf sites with no English…
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