Experience a 300-meter Low-Mountain Hike with Rocky Terrain
Close Ties with Ancient Korea
Kinchakuda, with Five Million Red Spider Lilies
How to Get There by Train
Koma Station: Seibu Ikebukuro Line Komagawa Station; JR Kawagoe Line & JR Hachiko Line
What’s It Like?
This region, known as Koma (or Koguryo), derives its name from the early 8th century when people from the Korean Peninsula arrived in Japan due to political turmoil in their homeland and settled here, pioneering the area. The spirit of their leader at that time, Jakko, is enshrined at the Koma Shrine, and his mortuary temple is Shoden’in Temple. Continuing further on foot at the base of the mountain, you can ascend to Mt. Hiwada.
Every year in September, a place called Kinchakuda is adorned with a profusion of spider lilies, attracting many tourists.
