Saitama Prefecture is Tokyo's underrated northern neighbor — a landlocked prefecture where the Edo-period streets of Kawagoe, the world's largest railway museum collection, bonsai gardens tended for a century, and the moss-phlox hills of Chichibu sit within an hour of the capital, all at a fraction of Tokyo's crowds and prices.
Omiya Station anchors Saitama's transport network as the busiest interchange north of central Tokyo. Nearly every part of the prefecture — from Kawagoe in the southwest to Chichibu in the far west — is reachable within 90 minutes of Omiya or Ikebukuro by train, with no car required for the prefecture's major destinations.
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