Saitama City, just 20 to 30 minutes by train to central Tokyo hubs such as Tokyo and Shinjuku stations, boasts many leading technology companies that produce key components and materials for high-technology machines.

Saitama is an attractive venue for technology companies for many reasons, such as ease of access to the capital and a geographical advantage of reduced disaster risks. Lack of a coastline and minimal elevation differences make Saitama a suitable location for businesses to have continuity operations in place because such features reduce damage from disasters such as floods.

The Saitama Shintoshin urban area is a nationally designated wide-area disaster prevention center and is an administrative district that is home to national government offices.