SAIBOKU
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Children play on the lawn's climbing structures until lunch, and the day's wristband lets them come straight back after eating.
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Saiboku started in 1946 as a small livestock farm, and it still handles every step itself: improving the breeding stock, raising the pigs, processing and selling the pork, and cooking it in its own restaurant.
The grounds now hold that restaurant, the company's biggest meat shop, a farm stand, the grass play area, and a hot spring, which is why it calls itself a pig theme park.
At the deli counter, the fried ground-pork cutlets and croquettes sell more than 2,000 between them on a busy day.
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- The green Saiboku grounds, which grew out of a livestock farm, hold a restaurant, meat and vegetable shops, a play area, and a hot spring, and the place calls itself a pig theme park.source
- It started in 1946 as a small farm and now handles the entire chain in-house, from improving the breeding stock to raising, processing, and selling the pork and serving it in its own restaurant.source
- The operator is Saiboku Co., Ltd., founded in September 1946 and employing 580 people, and in April 2023 it changed its name from Saitama Livestock Farm Co., Ltd.source
- In 2002 the Hidaka farm moved to the town of Hayakawa in Yamanashi and started over as the Minami Alps farm, and a hot spring now rises from the land it left behind.source
- There are seven directly run stores at present: the Hidaka main store, Maruhiro Kawagoe, Seibu Tokorozawa, Isetan Urawa, Tobu Ikebukuro, JR Kawagoe Station, and Sendai Izumi, with the Metsa Village store not on that list.source
- The Saiboku Forest play area opened in September 2019, the same year the new factory was completed on the site of the former park golf course.source
- More than 100 cherry trees bloom on the grounds in spring, and other flowers and trees take over as the seasons turn.source
- The hot spring has refrigerated lockers, so you can bathe after shopping without worrying about food that needs chilling, and the building has free Wi-Fi and phone chargers to rent at the desk.source
- Restaurant Saiboku is divided into an airy, high-ceilinged grill hall and a more subdued Western-food section, and the popular breaded pork cutlet can be ordered in either.source
- If you ask, the restaurant will hold your meat shop purchases in its refrigerator while you eat.source
- The kitchen serves spare ribs, pork steak, frankfurters, and simmered offal, with indoor seats and an outdoor terrace on the second floor, and anything you buy there can be taken into Saiboku Forest.source
- The meat shop is the largest of Saiboku's stores, with fresh cuts alongside sausages, hams, and other products made in the factory next door.source
- The fried ground pork cutlets and croquettes at the deli counter sell more than 2,000 pieces on a busy day.source
- The bakery sells bread its bakers make fresh every day, and it sometimes sells out by late afternoon.source
- Rakuno Hiroba is a farm stand selling mostly vegetables that local growers raise using Saiboku's compost, with each item labeled with the grower's name.source
- Fresh meat, hams, and sausages have to stay cold, so visitors are advised to bring a cooler bag, and the store sells its own.source
With kidsThe part that matters
The play area is a wide stretch of natural grass, with ten kinds of play structures set along a walking path of about 350 meters, close to a fifth of a mile.
Younger children get a small wooden course of their own, with ropes to climb and a slide to come down.
You can buy food at the kitchen, the cafeteria, or the bakery inside the meat shop and carry it out onto the grass, so lunch happens where the children are already playing.
Your ticket lets you come and go as many times as you like that day, so you can break off for the shops or a meal at Restaurant Saiboku and walk back in without paying again.
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- Saiboku Forest is a wide stretch of natural grass with ten kinds of play structures and a walking path about 350 meters long, close to a fifth of a mile, plus lounge chairs and free magazine reading over Wi-Fi.source
- The cafeteria has Saiboku hot dogs, freshly grilled sausage dogs, soft serve, and popcorn, which is a favorite with children.source
- Two adults and a schoolchild ¥1,000, under-sixes free. In at 9:10, forest by 9:40, one gate so nobody wanders off.source
- No toilet inside the play meadow. The paper wristband gives all-day re-entry plus discounts at the restaurant and baths.source
- With a two-year-old: numbered tickets for the 11:00 restaurant go out at 10:30. The kids' set is sausage and ham.source
- Weekday heatwave: not one child on the frames at opening. Staff say good seasons top 1,000. They quit after 15 minutes.source
- Winter with a five-year-old and a baby: parking is easy past 9:00, fills from 10:00, nearly full by 13:30.source
By age0-1 / 2-3 / 4-6
- Ages 0-1Saiboku no Mori is a wide stretch of natural lawn with a walking path about 350 metres long and lounge chairs out on the grass. You may bring in what you bought at the bakery or the cafeteria and picnic there, and Yoku, the piglet character, turns up here and there around the grounds for photographs.Preschool children enter Saiboku no Mori free. The hot spring Kachofugetsu does not admit anyone wearing diapers, training pants included, so save the bath for a later trip. The lawn area can close without notice in bad weather. The park is closed on Wednesdays, and the local buses can run more than an hour apart at some times of day.
- Ages 2-3Saiboku no Mori has a wooden mini athletic course for small children only, with a slide and rope climbing. You can go in and out as many times as you like on the same day, so play, eat lunch, and come back. The cafeteria has soft-serve ice cream and popcorn, a favourite with children.Preschool children are free at Saiboku no Mori; adults pay 300 yen on weekdays and 400 yen on weekends and holidays. Last entry to the lawn area is one hour before closing — 17:00 from March to November, 16:00 from December to February. Meat and ham bought at the shop need refrigeration, so bring a cooler bag (they sell one at the counter too). The hot spring Kachofugetsu does not admit anyone in diapers or training pants.
- Ages 4-6Ten kinds of athletic equipment stand on the wide natural lawn, plus the wooden mini athletic course for small children. Children can hunt for Yoku, the piglet character who appears here and there around the grounds, and pose at the several face-in-hole boards. Once out of diapers they can use the hot spring Kachofugetsu, where the opposite-sex bath is open to children up to the age of six with a parent.Preschool children enter the lawn area free; elementary-school children pay 150 yen on weekdays and 200 yen on weekends and holidays. At the hot spring the child rate (age 3 to elementary school) is 650 yen on weekdays and 750 yen on weekends and holidays, and a child must be with a parent. The hot spring does not allow food or drink to be brought in, while Saiboku no Mori does — the two rules run opposite ways. Numbered tickets for Restaurant Saiboku are handed out from 30 minutes before opening on weekends and holidays.
By weatherRain, heat, cold
- Rainy dayMeals, shopping, and the hot spring are indoors, but the outdoor athletic area “Saiboku no Mori” can close without notice depending on the weather.
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Two adults and a schoolchild ¥1,000, under-sixes free. In at 9:10, forest by 9:40, one gate so nobody wanders off.
A day at Saiboku: climbing structures for the kids, the meat counter for the grown-ups
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No toilet inside the play meadow. The paper wristband gives all-day re-entry plus discounts at the restaurant and baths.
Yahoo-hoo, Saiboku!!!
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With a two-year-old: numbered tickets for the 11:00 restaurant go out at 10:30. The kids' set is sausage and ham.
Saiboku no Mori with a two-year-old (Saiboku, the pig theme park)
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Weekday heatwave: not one child on the frames at opening. Staff say good seasons top 1,000. They quit after 15 minutes.
A summer holiday of small joys: a stay-at-home mother's diary
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Winter with a five-year-old and a baby: parking is easy past 9:00, fills from 10:00, nearly full by 13:30.
The kids went wild.
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Before you go
- You can come and go from Saiboku Forest as many times as you want on the day of your ticket.source
- The hot spring does not let anyone in diapers bathe, and that includes training pants.source
- At the hot spring, a child may use the bath of the opposite gender only through age six, and children must be accompanied by a guardian.source
- Following health department guidance, the hot spring does not allow outside food or drink, the reverse of Saiboku Forest, where bringing your own is fine.source
- Numbered waiting tickets for Restaurant Saiboku are handed out starting 30 minutes before opening on weekends and holidays, sometimes earlier when it is busy.source
More notes (4)
- Anyone at the hot spring who needs help bathing must bring a helper of the same gender, because the baths are separated by gender.source
- Restaurant Saiboku takes reservations only for parties of eight adults or more, booked at least four days ahead, and accepts neither same-day nor email reservations.source
- Pets cannot enter the meat shop, the farm stand, the restaurant, the Saiboku Forest play area, or the Kachofugetsu hot spring, and must be leashed anywhere on the grounds.source
- Closing days and opening hours can shift with the weather or other circumstances.source
Basics
- Fee：Coming into the grounds, the shops and the eating areas costs nothing. Two things are paid separately. The athletic field 'Saiboku no Mori' is ¥300 for adults and ¥150 for children on weekdays, ¥400 and ¥200 on weekends and on holidays, free for pre-school children, and you can go in and out as often as you like the same day. The hot spring Kachofugetsu is ¥1,080 for adults (junior high and up) and ¥650 for children aged 3 to 12 on weekdays, ¥1,280 and ¥750 on weekends and on holidays. Long holidays and the new-year period can carry special prices.source23
- Hours：Each part of the grounds keeps its own hours. The meat shop, the cafeteria and the farm-produce stand run 9:00-18:30, the Kitchen and the fruit-and-juice bar 10:00-17:00, and Restaurant SAIBOKU 11:00-19:00 with last orders at 18:30. All of these close on Wednesdays, except that public-holiday Wednesdays open as usual and July and December run without a closing day. The athletic field opens 9:00-17:00 from March to November and 9:00-16:00 from December to February, with last entry an hour before closing, and it also closes on Wednesdays. The hot spring works to a different rhythm: 10:00-22:00 with last entry at 21:00, closed one Tuesday a month. Hours and closing days can change with the weather.source
- Time to allow：3 h
- Booking：Nothing needs booking to shop, eat at the counters or use the athletic field. Restaurant SAIBOKU takes reservations only for groups of eight adults or more, and only if you call at least four days ahead on 042-985-4272 - same-day and email reservations are not accepted. On Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays the restaurant hands out numbered tickets from 30 minutes before opening.source
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Getting there
- The address is 546 Shimo-oyasawa, Hidaka City, Saitama 350-1221, and the main phone number is 042-989-2221.source
- By train and bus, it is 17 minutes on the Seibu bus bound for Saiboku from the west exit of Sayamashi Station on the Seibu Shinjuku Line, 25 minutes by Tobu bus from the west exit of Tsurugashima Station on the Tobu Tojo Line, or 5 minutes by Tobu bus from Kasahata Station on the JR Kawagoe Line.source
- By car, it is about 5 minutes from the Sayama-Hidaka interchange on the Ken-o Expressway by way of Route 407, or about 3 minutes from the Kawagoe interchange on the Kan-etsu Expressway, turning right at the Kashiwabara intersection.source
- Depending on the time of day, local buses can run more than an hour apart.source
Fees
- Entry to Saiboku Forest is 300 yen for adults and 150 yen for children on weekdays and 400 yen and 200 yen on weekends and holidays, with children not yet in elementary school free.source
- Saiboku Forest can close without notice because of weather, and special rates may apply during long holiday stretches and the New Year period.source
- Hot spring admission is 1,080 yen on weekdays and 1,280 yen on weekends and holidays for adults, meaning junior high age and older, and 650 yen and 750 yen for children age three through elementary school.source
Hours and closures
- Saiboku Forest is open 9:00 to 17:00 on summer hours from March through November and 9:00 to 16:00 on winter hours from December through February, with last entry an hour before closing.source
- The meat shop, the cafeteria, and the Rakuno Hiroba farm stand are open 9:00 to 18:30, while the kitchen and the fruit and juice bar run 10:00 to 17:00.source
- Restaurant Saiboku is open 11:00 to 19:00 with last orders at 18:30, and its number is 042-985-4272.source
- The meat shop, cafeteria, kitchen, farm stand, fruit and juice bar, Restaurant Saiboku, and Saiboku Forest all close on Wednesdays, keep special hours on national holidays, and stay open every day in July and December.source
- The Kachofugetsu hot spring and its restaurant close one Tuesday a month, on a different schedule from the rest of the grounds, which close every Wednesday.source
- The Kachofugetsu hot spring is open 10:00 to 22:00 with last entry at 21:00, and its number is 042-919-2626.source
- The shop on the first floor of the hot spring building stays open until 22:00 and is open on Wednesdays, when the meat shop is closed.source
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- Official: Indoor / outdoor, Stroller access notes
- Official: Indoor / outdoor, Outside food allowed
- Official: Stroller access notes
- Official: Stroller access notes
- Official: Outside food allowed
- Official: Stroller access notes
- Official: main site
It began in 1946 as a small farm and now breeds, raises, processes and sells its own pork. The meat shop is the company's largest, and its delicatessen counter can sell over 2,000 croquettes and minced-pork cutlets on a busy day. Saiboku no Mori is a lawn with ten kinds of climbing structures and a 350-meter path, plus a smaller wooden set for young children. The herd moved to Yamanashi in 2002, and a hot spring found on the old pasture became a day bathhouse in 2004.
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| Indoor / outdoor | Indoor & outdoor | The shops, the restaurants and the hot spring are indoors. Saiboku no Mori - the lawn and the athletic frames - is outdoors and can close at no notice in bad weather. The Kitchen has both indoor and outdoor terrace seats on its second floor. | Web-checked | checked Aug ’26 | saiboku.co.jpsaiboku.co.jp |
| Outside food allowed | Yes | The two paid areas treat this in opposite ways. In Saiboku no Mori you are encouraged to bring what you bought at the Kitchen, the cafeteria or the bakery inside the meat shop and picnic on the lawn. The hot spring Kachofugetsu refuses food and drink brought in from outside, on health-authority instruction. | Web-checked | checked Aug ’26 | saiboku.co.jpsaiboku.co.jp |
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| Stroller access notesExtra info — guide only | Yes | By bus: 17 minutes on the Seibu bus bound for Saiboku from the west exit of Sayamashi station (Seibu Shinjuku line), 25 minutes on the Tobu bus from the west exit of Tsurugashima station (Tobu Tojo line), or 5 minutes on the Tobu bus from Kasahata station (JR Kawagoe line). Buses can run more than an hour apart at some times of day. By car it is about 5 minutes from the Sayama-Hidaka interchange on the Ken-o expressway and about 3 minutes from the Kawagoe interchange on the Kan-etsu expressway. At Restaurant SAIBOKU you can stay in a wheelchair at the table - tell a staff member. Anything you buy at the meat shop can be kept in the restaurant's fridge while you eat. Pets cannot enter the meat shop, the produce stand, the restaurants, the athletic field or the hot spring. | Web-checked | checked Aug ’26 | saiboku.co.jpsaiboku.co.jpsaiboku.co.jpsaiboku.co.jp |
| Official family-friendly certificationExtra info — guide only | Not checked yet | ||||
| Best-fit ages (guide)Extra info — guide only | Not checked yet | ||||
| Crowding (guide)Extra info — guide only | Not checked yet | ||||
| Quietness (guide)Extra info — guide only | Not checked yet | ||||
| Lost-child supportExtra info — guide only | Not checked yet |
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