Saitama Information
My assigned prefecture

Useful Links

Saitama Prefecture from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Soka, Saitama homepage
Official Saitama Prefecture homepage

Practical Travel Guides for Independent Travelers

Japan National Tourist Organization (JNTO) publishes "Practical Travel Guides" on several of the host cities and surrounding areas FMF Teacher Program participants visit. Each practical travel guide is presented in the form of a PDF file. Acrobat Reader 5.0 is required to view these files. You'll also need Japanese fonts to view and print them properly.The Japanese fonts can be downloaded from the Acrobat Reader home page. If you have trouble opening the individual travel guides from this page, first go to http://www.jnto.go.jp/eng/RTG/PTG/index.html and look for your corresponding host city and area.

View Saitama's Travel Guide (pdf)

JNTO's "Practical Travel Guides" are designed to help the English-speaking traveler enjoy an independent trip inexpensively to a popular destination or famous tourist site without further assistance. In the Kanto region, Saitama's guide includes such invaluable detailed information as means of transport, local area maps, briefing notes, and places to stay.