Historic Sites, Places of Scenic Beauty, and Natural Monuments of Saitama

A late Jomon settlement in Iwatsuki Ward, Saitama City, where a ring of shells 150 metres across sits beside a waterlogged peat site. Designated in 1975.

Medieval quarries in Ogawa, Saitama, a Historic Site since 2014, where green schist was cut and shaped into blanks for the Musashi-type stone tablets of Kanto.

Three green-schist itabi of 1261 and 1265 in Gyoda, Saitama, carved with an Amida triad and Jizo, a Historic Site since 1928.

Completed in 1731, the Minuma Tsusenbori is a timber lock canal in Saitama. Four locks bridged a three-metre drop so grain boats could reach Edo, now reconstructed.

At Yoshimi Hyakuana in Saitama, a highland moss grows inside ancient Kofun-era tombs, glowing faint gold-green as lens-like cells in its protonema catch the light.

Saitama’s registered properties across designations, with featured heritage and travel notes.

The complete kokuhō catalogue — browse by prefecture, period, and category.

Nationwide jūyō bunkazai — architecture, sculpture, painting, crafts, and documents.