Things to do in Iwatsuki, JP

Iwatsuki doll is a Japanese doll made in the city of Saitama, Iwatsuki ward, Saitama prefecture. The characteristics of Iwatsuki doll are its round face with big eyes that give it an adorable appearance and brilliant colors.

Musashi Ichi-no-miya Hikawa Shrine Back. This is one of the most superb old shrines of Japan with a history that is said to go back more than 2,000 years and is also ...

The Omiya Bonsai Art Museum, Saitama. Opened in 2010, the Omiya Bonsai Art Museum is the world’s first publicly run museum dedicated to bonsai art. It boasts a collection of more than 120 bonsai masterpieces and bonsai-related artifacts such as bonsai pots, miniature landscape stone called suiseki, books and woodblock prints, etc.

The Omiya Bonsai Art Museum ... http://www.bonsai-art-museum.jp. Access by train. ... About 9 km from Iwatsuki exit on the Tohoku Expressway Parking spaces for ...

The Railway Museum was built in Onari, Saitama City as the centerpiece of the JR East 20th Anniversary Memorial Project. This is a railway museum, and it preserves both the physical elements and heritage of railways in Japan and abroad.

Unagi is thought to be a special food that we occasionally eat and there even is a day for unagi once a year. (Always on Saturday.) The day is called "the day of the ox in midsummer (土用丑の日, Doyo ushi no hi)" and Japanese people have a custom to eat Unagi which started in the Edo period .