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Travel Blogs from Iga, Japan
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The Day we visited the Ninja and the Deer
... . After, we're going to visit the deer and see Todaiji and a bit of Nara as well! Though Ninja no longer exist in Japan (or do they?!) Iga Ueno (formerly Ueno city & 4 other towns, now combined into one larger town called Iga Ueno) was known for it's ...
Mountain of Monkeys
... in a nearby store filled with porcelain figures and stuffed animals. It was our first brush with consumerism since arriving in Japan, and the consuming came in the form of a veritable army of Totoro products, all for considerably cheaper than you ...
Apr 26, 2010
Whats that coming over the hill is it a Ninja?
We later stopped at Iga, one of the birthplaces of Ninja and saw a ninja house and museum. Yoji and me were Ninjas for the day and i even got stuck in a ninja revolving ...
Day 34 - An insight into the world of Ninjas!
... the long journey home. Before we did, we got ourselves a coffee and a tea. We could not find a coffee place, but aha, in Japan there is so much variety in vending machines that you can get smokes, cold drinks, hot drinks and even food. It was ...
Iga-ryu Ninja Museum & Seki Post Town
... was completed in 1612 and reconstructed in 1935. The keep is made of wood, which is unusual for a reconstructed concrete-made castle of Japan, but I knew the inside was like a museum, so I skipped it. When I arrived at Ueno-shi Station, the closest ...
Ninja Village: A boyhood dream comes true
... each little train. The train rides to the ninja village yielded a couple of pleasant surprises. I sincerely enjoyed seeing truly rural Japan and riding on some of the small trains that serviced the small farming communities in the Kansai area. We also ...
Iga Noh Play at Ueno Castle and Iga Ninja Museum
... . We finally made our way over to the tarps lying on the ground with shoes lined around the edges. We had only been in Japan for two months so we were still a little nervous leaving our shoes out of site along several other pairs. Although we didn’t ...
Ninja country
... the ninja gear and information etc.Amazing stuff,apparently Ninja's first appeared in India 5000 b.c. and spread through china eventually arriving in Japan via Korea in 500 a.d.and didnt become a martial art till much later. ...
Tenjin Festival
Every year from October 23rd to 25th, Iga city hosts an event known as the Tenjin Matsuri (Festival of the Gods). They have a parade composed of 10 rolling shrines and over 100 people wearing traditional ogre/demon costumes who walk through the streets, ...
Iga Ueno - Ninja Town!
... Iga Ueno Castle, which was rebuilt in 1935 by a local land owner, but strangely not destroyed in WW2 like everything else in Japan (I guess it was too far into the country for it to be worth destroying). There were some pretty cool historical pieces, but ...
I'm a Ninja!
... out, so it was pretty relaxing. The scenery was beautiful from what I could see. First stop was Ueno park, where the Iga castle is and a ninja museum. The castle was beautifully Japanese, but was undergoing construction, so you couldn't really go into it ...
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