One day in Saitama, Japan

A day through Saitama’s best-known sights that lie close together: Railway Museum, Saitama Prefectural Museum of History and Folklore, Ōmiya Park, Hikawa Shrine and Saitama Municipal Museum. 5 stops, about 2.2 km between them in straight lines; the streets make it longer.

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The route

  1. Railway MuseumMuseum · On the map
  2. Saitama Prefectural Museum of History and FolkloreMuseum · 1.1 km on from Railway Museum · On the map
  3. Ōmiya ParkGarden · 0.3 km on from Saitama Prefectural Museum of History and Folklore · On the map
  4. Hikawa ShrineTemple or shrine · 0.3 km on from Ōmiya Park · On the map
  5. Saitama Municipal MuseumMuseum · 0.7 km on from Hikawa Shrine · On the map

5 stops, 3.7 km on foot along the streets: about 45 min of walking.

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Pictures from Wikimedia Commons, through each place’s Wikidata entry.

Good to know

  • Each day starts at the best-known place not yet seen and adds the best known within a short walk of it, then puts them in the shortest order. The places come from Wikidata (CC0), ranked by how many Wikipedias have an article about them.
  • The map draws each day’s walk along the streets, routed by Valhalla on OpenStreetMap; the distances beside the stops are straight lines.
  • Opening hours, tickets and closures are not checked: each place’s Wikipedia article has them.

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