The Otaue rice-planting rite on 14 June at Sumiyoshi Taisha is an Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property: planting maidens set seedlings to song in the shrine's own paddy while dances and a mock battle are performed around it.
Why it's unique
Otaue rites exist elsewhere in Japan; this one is among the three best known and is performed unabridged, so it is held at country.
What you can do is stand at the paddy fence and watch the whole rite, planting, dance and mock battle, in a working sacred field inside a city.
Before you go
It survived Meiji only because geisha from Osaka's Shinmachi quarter volunteered as planters.
Arrive by 12:30 for a spot by the paddy fence; the shrine's sorihashi drum bridge is the photograph, but the planting is the reason to come.
