Saitama City, a major bedroom community of Tokyo, is proud of many things, including the fact that it is home to 1 percent of the country's population, a percentage that is likely to rise as the population is still increasing.

It is also home to Saitama Stadium, a 2002 FIFA World Cup stadium, and Saitama Super Arena, the venue slated to host basketball during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics.

The city, 19 minutes from Ueno Station, 22 minutes from Tokyo Station and 29 minutes from Shinjuku Station, is a pleasant place to live, with convenient access to retail stores, transportation, rich nature, sports facilities and residential areas. Land prices are reasonable compared with Tokyo and other bedroom communities of Tokyo. Saitama's average residential land price was ¥176,000 per square meter, substantially lower than the ¥214,000 in Yokohama, ¥250,000 in Kawasaki and ¥505,000 in Tokyo's 23 wards, according to the Land, Infrastructure and Transportation Ministry's 2014 official figures.