[1] It had connections to Blackwater and Emerald in the Central Highlands in Queensland, a coal and blossoming farming region in Australia.

Fujisawa has most wonderful annual Festival, entitled the Noyaki Matsuri, which is held in August each year.

During this time students from all the schools exhibit team work in a practical manner wherein they create a pottery design to be fired in the open pits, as part of a community competition.

The festival highlights the town's creativity and openness to welcome potters and sculptors from around Japan and internationally, and people enjoy food stalls, taiko drumming, ceremonial dancing, upon the Junior High School sports fields in Fujisawa.

There is an annual motocross racing event which once more draws crowds of people to this most picturesque Japanese township, located 30 minutes from the eastern coast of Japan.