Gari-Gari-Kun's Hometown: Fukaya City, Saitama Prefecture

Fukaya (深谷市 Fukaya-shi^?) is a city located in the north of Saitama Prefecture, Japan.

In the Edo era, it was an inn-town on the Nakasendō (中山道), and grew during this period. It is in the prefecture's leading agricultural area, and claim's to be the biggest producer of leeks in Japan.^{[citation needed]} Fukaya negi are famous. Shibusawa Eiichi, the founder of the first national bank in Japan, was born here.

Akagi Nyugyo is a large ice cream company based in Fukaya. They make the famous Gari-Gari-kun ice-pop that tastes like soda, or other flavors.

Takinomiya Jinja is a large Shinto shrine in Fukaya.

The city was founded on January 1, 1955.
On January 1, 2006 the towns of Hanazono, Kawamoto and Okabe, all from Ōsato District, were merged into Fukaya.

Saitama Prefecture (埼玉県 Saitama-ken^?) is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of the island of Honshu.^[1] The capital is the city of Saitama.^[2]

The Nakasendō (中山道^?), also called the Kisokaidō (木曾街道^?),^[1] was one of the five routes of the Edo period, and one of the two that connected Edo (modern-day Tokyo) to Kyoto in Japan.