Home of Ninja

Are Ninja spies or assassins or both? Only thing I know for sure is that they are not turtles. That's pretty much of what an ordinary young Japanese person knows.
Anyway, I just read Japanese Yahoo news and they said the number of foreign travelers visited Japan in 2005 was the highest ever in the history. 6.73 million people went to Japan last year! Japanese government just started "the visit Japan campaign" (http://www.vjc.jp/) to bring more travelers. Their goal is to increase the number of visitors to 10 million people within the next 10 years. BTW, although the website is meant for foreigners, they have information more in Japanese than in English. This is actually typical for that country. When a Japanese website has an English page, they almost always have a lot less contents in English compare to the original Japanese one.

In my blog whenever I feel like, I want to give Japan travel guide for those who are interested in visiting Japan someday. However, I am not planning to introduce typical tourist spots such as Tokyo down town, Kyoto temples and so on... Because those are already well covered by real guide books.
Here is Today's recommended spot!

Iga-ryu Ninja Museum http://www.iganinja.jp/
This interesting Ninja museum consist of a Virtual Ninja House with hidden stairs, secret passages and revolving doors, virtual Ninja experience area where you can use weapons and learn Ninja skills. They have exciting Ninja shows too. Fun fun fun!