Ninja House and Tanukis

Here is me and my Otousan outside the ninja house.

Here is my friend Tom Ludlow from Lehigh and me enjoying some ninja tea.Here is a shot of the ninja garden.

For a small fee the ninja house lets visitors throw authentic ninja stars.

Here is me posing before my first shot.

My second shot was a bull's eye.

Here's a spider eating a fly.

These were some ninja tools on display. I was told that the ninja's main duty was to protect samurai and that they actually spent a lot of time making medicine.

Here is some ninja clothes on display.

Here is a map of the house, pretty unintelligible.

There were many secret rooms and pathways inside the ninja house. Next to this ladder was a sign saying not to use it.

Here is me passing through a secret door.

In each secret area, there was some sort of fake ninja. Here is me acting hard next to a fake ninja.

Here is me mimicking the kiddy ninjas.

Here is Tom Ludlow next to a picture of Harrison Ford.

This is a statue I liked inside the ninja house.

At first, I didn't really believe that this was a real hat. It was very big.

This is a tanuki, or raccoon dog. In Super Mario 3, you can turn into Tanuki Mario who has the power to turn into stone. Note the gigantic testicles.

Tanukis are pretty popular in Japan. Here is my host parents posing in front of a giant Tanuki phone.

Here is a Tanuki building in the rain from the opposite side of the car.

They don't just sell Tanukis, here.

...although there's a hell of a lot of them.

There's also this guy.