[2025 Kawagoe ] Travel Guide for Kawagoe Hikawa Shrine Enmusubi Fuurin (Updated Jul)

A seasonal feature of summer [Wind chimes] The annual "Enmusubi Wind Chimes 🎐" event at Kawagoe Hikawa Shrine has begun. Here are three spots in Saitama where you can enjoy wind chimes. ✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲ Kawagoe Hikawa Shrine More than 1,500 Edo wind chimes sway within the grounds of the "Enmusubi Wind Chimes" event at Kawagoe Hikawa Shrine. Address: 2-11-3 Miyashitacho, Kawagoe City, Saitama Prefecture 🅿️ Free for worshippers and Hikawa Kaikan users Visiting hours: 8:00-18:00 ✅ Colorful wind chimes resonate with a cool sound ✅ You can hang a "strip of paper with a wish" on the wind chimes. It costs 500 yen at the shrine office on the left just after passing through the main torii gate ✅ The wind chime corridor decorated with many wind chimes is impressive ✅ Don't miss the light-up that takes place from 18:30 to 20:00 during the festival period! ... ✅The windmill in front of the wind chimes, which is decorated for a month, is also a highlight. ✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲ Kuizu Shrine Kuizu Shrine Address: 2-6-55 Miyamachi, Iwatsuki-ku, Saitama City, Saitama Prefecture🅿️ Private parking: 14 cars Second parking: 19 cars Third parking: 63 cars Shrine office hours: 9:00 - 16:00 (depending on the season and festivals) Precincts open 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. Walk for about 20 minutes. Bus: From the east exit, take the Ibaraki Express Bus to Nodashi Station and get off at "Kuizu Shrine Entrance." For other routes, get off at "Higashi-Osawabashi." Walk for 7 minutes. ✅Go through the approach to the shrine (covered in greenery, it's also a highlight), pass through the torii gate, and you'll see a peacock on your right. ✅The bright red "Kyuja-ku Wind Bell" is an original for the shrine. It has peacocks and goldfish on it. You can also purchase this wind chime. ✅The peacock is a symbol of warding off evil spirits! ! It seems that wind chimes were also tools that had the meaning of warding off evil spirits in the old days, so you can ward off evil spirits in two ways. ✅The goshuin book here also has a peacock on it, and you can receive a wonderful summer purification goshuin. ✅It's read as Kuizu Shrine, but it was also used as a location for the Ultra Quiz in the past. ✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲✲ Koshigaya Katori Shrine Katori Shrine Address: 3-13-38 Osawa, Koshigaya City, Saitama Prefecture🅿️ Available Visiting hours 9:00-16:30 🚃 About 3 minutes walk from the east exit of Kitakoshigaya Station ✅After passing through the torii gate, there is a tunnel of bright goldfish-patterned wind chimes to the main hall ✅Water balloon flower water fountain ✅Windmills and goldfish dummy in front of the main hall ─────────────────────── These shrines⚠️ are attacked by mosquitoes🦟 during this season, so don't forget to take precautions! ! #Saitama #wind chimes #Kawagoe Hikawa Shrine #photo spot #shrine #limited event

Kawagoe Hikawa Shrine, located in Kawagoe City, Saitama Prefecture, is known as a power spot for matchmaking. A summer tradition is the Enmusubi Wind Chime Festival. About 2,000 Edo wind chimes donated to the shrine will be displayed in the shrine grounds. 📍Location: 2-11-3 Miyashita-cho, Kawagoe City, Saitama Prefecture 🗓️Dates: Saturday, June 28, 2025 - Monday, September 15, 2025 (Congratulations) 💰Free admission 🚗Access: Take the Tobu Bus or Koedo Junkai Bus from JR/Tobu Tojo Line Kawagoe Station to "Hikawa Shrine Mae", it's right in front of you, it takes about 12 minutes Highlights -Wind chime corridor: Installed in front of the torii gate and next to the worship hall -Glowing river: Light up the small river that flows through the temple grounds (from 6:30pm to around 8pm) -Clouds on the ground: A sea of ​​clouds created with dry ice? under the large torii gate -Parking lot: Windmill display *Windmills that were on display before the Wind Chime Festival Kawagoe Hikawa Shrine is crowded with many foreigners, so please come and visit as it is a shrine with high benefits #Absolutely free trip #Saitama Prefecture #Shrines and temples #Power spot

#2024Travel Review Kawagoe Hikawa Shrine has a long history. It is said to have been built in the 6th century AD and the Kofun culture was introduced during the reign of Emperor Kinmei. Since the construction of Kawagoe Castle during the Muromachi period, Ota Dokan has been revered as the guardian of the castle and the head office of the area, and is called "Okioka-sama". During the Edo period, he was revered by successive castle lords as the chief guardian of the territory. The current main shrine is beautifully carved in Edo and was donated in 13th year by the castle lord Matsudaira Shigetsugu and his descendants. It is also worshipped as the "god of marriage" as it houses the spirits of the couple and their families, and on sunny days you can see the bride in all white. The Kawagoe Festival held in mid-October is an ancillary festival of the Hikawa Shrine's annual festival. Various Shinto ceremonies are held throughout the year, including the "Enmusubi Wind Chimes" on Tanabata and in the summer, and the "School Bag Purification Ceremony" to pray for traffic safety and academic success for children attending elementary school. spring. The lush green area is popular not only with admirers but also as a recreational spot for citizens who enjoy the colors of the four seasons.