Saitama's summer seasonal feature [wind chimes 🎐] spot

A seasonal feature of summer [Wind chimes] The annual "Enmusubi Wind Chimes🎐" at Kawagoe Hikawa Shrine has begun. Here are three spots in Saitama where you can enjoy wind chimes. ⚠️The photos are from last year and the year before. The colors may be slightly different. ✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲Kawagoe Hikawa Shrine More than 1,500 Edo wind chimes sway within the grounds of Kawagoe Hikawa Shrine's "Enmusubi Wind Chimes". Address: 2-11-3 Miyashitacho, Kawagoe, Saitama 🅿️Free for worshippers and Hikawa Kaikan users. Visiting hours: 8:00-18:00 ✅ Colorful wind chimes make a cool sound ✅ You can hang a "strip of paper with a wish" on the wind chimes. Just after passing through the main torii gate, go to the shrine office on your left and pay 500 yen for the first offering... ✅ The wind chime corridor decorated with many wind chimes is a sight to behold ✅ Don't miss the light-up that takes place from 18:30 to 20:00 during the festival period! ! ✅ The stream that runs through the temple grounds is also lit up, transforming it into a "glowing river." ✅ You can catch "Tai Mikuji" fortunes using the provided fishing rods. ✅ At the "Musubi Cafe" in the temple grounds, sweets in glass containers that resemble wind chimes are sold. ✅ They also sell colorful wind chimes 🎐, such as the soft pink "Koi Iro" and the pale, refreshing "Sora Iro" that resembles a summer sky. ✅ The tunnel of votive plaques is also a spectacular sight. ✅ The pinwheel in front of the wind chimes, which is decorated for a month, is also worth seeing. ✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲Hisuizu Shrine Hisuizu Shrine These wind chimes have already been installed. How long will they be there? Unknown Address: 2-6-55 Miyacho, Iwatsuki-ku, Saitama-shi, Saitama 🅿️ Private parking: 14 cars Second parking: 19 cars Third parking: 63 cars Shrine office reception hours: 9:00 - 16:00 (depending on the season and festivals) Temple grounds opening hours: 5:00 - 19:00 Open all year round Parking available hours: 5:00 - 18:00 🚃Get off at Kitakoshigaya Station on the Tobu Skytree Line and walk for about 20 minutes. Bus: From the east exit, take the Ibaraki Bus bound for Nodashi Station and get off at "Kuizu Shrine Entrance", or for other routes, get off at "Higashi-Osawabashi", and walk for 7 minutes. ✅Go through the approach (covered in greenery, which is also a highlight) and pass through the torii gate, and you will see a peacock on your right. ✅The bright red "Kyuja-ku Wind Bell" is an original shrine item. It has peacocks and goldfish painted on it. You can also purchase these wind chimes. ✅ Peacocks are symbols of warding off evil spirits! Wind chimes were also used to ward off evil spirits, so you can ward off two evil spirits at once. ✅ Peacocks are also drawn on this goshuin stamp book, and you can receive a wonderful summer purification goshuin stamp. ✅ It is read as Kuizu Shrine, and it was previously used as a filming location for Ultra Quiz. ✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲ Koshigaya Katori Shrine Katori Shrine These wind chimes have already been installed. Address: 3-13-38 Osawa, Koshigaya, Saitama 🅿️Available Visiting hours: 9:00-16:30🚃 About 3 minutes walk from the east exit of Kitakoshigaya Station✅Go through the torii gate and you will find a tunnel of bright goldfish-patterned wind chimes before the main hall ✅Water balloon flower water fountain ✅Windmills and goldfish dummy statues in front of the main hall ✅The Tanabata Festival🎋 is held every year on July 7th. ─────────────────────────⚠️This season, you will be attacked by mosquitoes🦟 so don't forget to take precautions!! ! #domestictrip #saitama #windchimes #photogenicspot #summervacation #summer