Ura Mushroom Festival

We visited the festival for 2 days.

The festival comes across as a local community gathering. Entertainment by local singer, sporting events and display of various mushroom species by the national mushroom center. Limited amount of mushrooms for sale by the farmers thou.

Sampling the Mushroom Momo, Teppan Matsutake, Ara infused with matsutake.

Being the few foreign guest in this remote valley, the group was invited to vip stand with the rest of the officials. Local ara tastes pretty smooth, no alcohol burns.

We missed the matsutake soup on day 1. Had the opportunity to savour it from the giant pot, after the officials had their opening ceremony for day 2.