11222 ／ こしがやし
Saitama PrefectureA flood-control pond became the town's lake.
Koshigaya Lake Town01 ／ Lake Town
Koshigaya Lake Town (越谷レイクタウン) was laid out together with the Ōsagami Regulating Pond (大相模調節池), which eases flooding, and opened as a town in 2008. The pond covers about 39.5 ha and can hold up to 1.2 million m³ of water. By the station, Aeon Lake Town has more than 700 shops across three buildings, and in May 2026 a new waterside area opened on the pond.
02 ／ Daruma
Koshigaya daruma (越谷だるま) have pale faces and slightly high noses, a refined look. It is thought that Edo, their main market, was close enough for high noses to survive the journey unbroken. By one account they were begun around 1713 by a doll maker in Makuri (間久里); in 1984 they became a prefecturally designated traditional handicraft. They still go to Kawasaki Daishi and Shibamata Taishakuten.
03 ／ Wild bird forest
Campbelltown Forest of Wild Birds (キャンベルタウン野鳥の森) opened in September 1995 to mark ten years of the sister-city tie with Campbelltown, Australia. In a bird cage of about 3,000 m², sulphur-crested cockatoos, cockatiels and other birds given by Campbelltown fly free, and there are red-necked wallabies and emus too. Adult admission is 100 yen.
Living here
The city has eight stations on the Tōbu Skytree Line and the JR Musashino Line. From Shin-Koshigaya and Minami-Koshigaya, where the two lines meet, trains run through to Kita-Senju, Ueno, Ōtemachi, Kasumigaseki and Shibuya with no change. More than 40,000 residents commute to Tokyo's 23 wards for work or school. City Hall is a 7-minute walk from the east exit of Koshigaya Station.
+1.2% since 2015
298,253 → 341,621
60.12km² of it habitable
2024
2.4 people per household
2020
National average 60,630 yen
2023
6.3 per 10,000 people
2023
These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.
Shape
North to south
11.5km
Travel times per leg are not published by the municipality, so they are not shown.
If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.
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