From 18–24 September 2015, Omotesando’s community yard COMMUNE246 (Minami-Aoyama) ran CHiASEED WEEK — a seven-day food fest built around the superfood seed and timed to Otsuka Foods’ area-limited launch of shizen shokkan CHiA coconut and cacao snacks (about 3,000 seeds per pack, sold across Tokyo and three neighboring prefectures).
Hours on contemporary coverage: 11:00–22:00.
What you could eat
Five food-cart and café counters served six chia-forward dishes, including:
- Chicken and chia colorful salad — ¥800 (dote cafe)
- Chia bowl — ¥600
- Marron & soy-milk whip autumn French toast with raspberry chia sauce — ¥850 (GARTEN)
- Soy bean yogurt with chia seeds & fruits — ¥800
- Ginger chia pound cake — ¥390
- Haze milk pudding — ¥450
Press leaned on texture: crunchy cucumber and avocado bowls under a surprising amount of seed, and tart raspberry chia sauce cutting sweet French toast.
Beyond the plate
The yard also staged what organizers billed as a world-first chia seed wall artwork, plus chia cultivation kit workshops (20–23 September, 13:00–15:00, first 30 people each day). Visitors who Instagrammed a chia menu, the art, or a kit could claim limited shizen shokkan CHiA samples.
Why it sat on the Shibuya Channel map
COMMUNE246 sits on the Omotesando–Aoyama walking loop that drains toward Harajuku and the eastern edge of the scramble basin. A week-long food pop-up is the same retail calendar energy you can watch spill toward Meiji-dori on the Shibuya Crossing live camera.
Festival snacks are cheap until the week isn’t — set a ceiling with our average trip to Japan cost guide.
Confirm current COMMUNE programming before visiting; 2015 tenant carts and the CHiA SKU set are historical.
