date:Nov 14, 2018
moderate amount of rainfall is necessary through September, when temperatures go down. In Nagano Prefecture, a major mushroom producer, rainfall and ground temperatures were both favorable for matsutake this year.
The total amount of domestic matsutake mushrooms traded at the Tsukiji wholesale market in Tokyo in August and September reached 4 tons, an increase of about 1.2 tons from a year earlier. The average wholesale price per kilogram fell around 30 percent. The price of matsutake from Nag