Between roughly mid-September/early October each year a place in Saitama prefecture outside of Tokyo called Kinchachuda comes alive with roughly 5 million Lycoris Radiata (aka Spider Lilies) on both sides of the Koma river, and during that time the town of Koma throws a nifty little festival with foods from local farmers and producers. Such as green tea of various varieties from the fields of Sayama and Iruma, chestnuts from Hidaka and freshly prepared mochi dango wrapped with local mikan oranges.
Koma itself is interesting as it was a settlement founded by the royal family of a deposed Korean kingdom and had a folk history dating back roughly 1200 AD.
by WangFury32
AloJapan.com