Meet Ninja, Be a Ninja! Sites and Experiences
Ninja is a real thing. Ninjas lived in mystery, hided themselves from the world, brushed up skills secretly and became valuable soldiers or spies who made an impossible possible.
Because of the secret life of Ninja, people now a days not knowing the real deals of Ninja but admiring them like a mysterious hero. Even Japanese fellows have ideas that much, then I wonder how people from other countries find Ninja about?
There are some places you can see Ninja performance, or make your self dress up or experience a bit of Ninja skills. It should become an impressive “Japan” memory in your trip.
Amusement Parks where you can meet Ninja 
TOEI Kyoto Studio Park 東映太秦映画村
Region : Kyoto City
Official website : TOEI Kyoto Studio Park
TOEI Kyoto Studio Park is a movie studio theme park in Kyoto. Part of Toei Kyoto Photography Center was separated and opened to the public. It is should be the most famous and developed amusement park for Ninjas and Samurais. See performances, find Ninjas by the street, get lost in labyrinth, you may encounter a real filming scene.
Reviews : Trip Advisor
Access : Official website
Edo Wonderland 日光江戸村
Region : Tochigi Prefecture
Official website : Edo Wonderland Nikko Edomura
EDO WONDERLAND is a cultural park where you can experience the culture of the Edo period. On the vast site, the townscape like the real thing such as a highway, an inn, a merchant house, a samurai residence, etc. are reproduced. Through contacts and experiences with the Edo people, you can touch the breath of living Edo, you can even change clothes to become an Edo person.
Reviews : Trip Advisor
Access : Official website
Togakushi Kid’s Ninja Village 戸隠チビッ子忍者村
Region : Nagano Prefecture
Official website : Togakushi Ninja
Kid’s Ninja Vilage for children to enjoy Ninja Ninja Ninja! Dress up Ninja with parents, go challenge Ninja attractions.
Reviews : Trip Advisor
Access : Official website via Google Translate Web / Train & Bus
Oshino Ninja Village 忍野しのびの里
Region : Yamanashi Prefecture
Official website : Oshino Shinobi no Sato
If you going to go around Mt. Fuji, you may also go to see ninjas in Oshino Ninja Village. It is a ninja theme village consisting of a Japanese garden overlooking Mt. Fuji, ninja attractions, meal services, tea ceremony and a shop. Guests can experience attractions (Ninja trick house, shriken training, etc) and ninja performances that are popular with foreign visitors and children, as well as seasonal flower trees. You can enjoy the seasonal Japanese emotional scenery near Fuji Goko lakes.
Reviews : Trip Advisor
Access : Official website 
NINJA TRICK HOUSE IN TOKYO 手裏剣道場 新宿忍者からくり屋敷
Region : Tokyo
Official website : NINJA TRICK HOUSE IN TOKYO
In the middle of Shinjuku Kabuki-cho, the Ninja theme park “Ninja Trick House” has opened.
You can learn how to handle Ninja weapons and how to throw shurikens from authentic Ninja who is also a Iai master. The facility is only 2 rooms in a multitenant building but for sure even Japanese locals enjoy this ninja entertainment.
Reviews : Trip Advisor
Access : Official website
Be a Ninja!
Ninja Dojo and Store 伊賀流 忍者道場 忍道具屋
Region : Kyoto City
Official website : NINJA DOJO and STORE
Throwing real shuriken on tatami and trying out the ninja swords and buying it may not be easy to find any other place. The facility is a dojo (training room for Japanese martial arts) and a ninja goods shop that can experience ninja practice mainly for foreign tourists. There is no entertainment or show-up element, and it is a taste to enjoy ninja training. You can learn the concept of ninja deeper than other ninja facilities.
Reviews : Trip Advisor
Access : Official website
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The Akame 48 Falls 伊賀忍者修行の里 赤目四十八滝
Region : Mie Prefecture
Official website : The Akame 48 Falls
Akame 48 Falls in Nabari City, Mie Prefecture, which was also selected as one of the best one hundred waterfalls in Japan (1990). A lot of tourists visit, looking for a beautiful landscape woven by numerous waterfalls. And here is the village of Ninja training where many Iga Ninjas are said to have carried out hard training. It is a good experience to practice the way of Ninja at Ninja no Mori aka Ninja Valley within Akame 48 Falls
Reviews : Trip Advisor
Access : Official website
Ninja MUSEUM of Igaryu 伊賀流忍者博物館
Region : Mie Prefecture
Official website : Ninja MUSEUM of Igaryu
Iga was used to be a village of Ninja. The Ninja Museum is a real mansion of this village, rebuild into a museum. The appearance is a very ordinary farmers residence, but there are plenty of defense system in and around the mansion in order to protect their secret techniques and documents. In the mansion, Kunoichi (female ninja) will guide you with demonstrations on hidden tricks and traps. In addition, at a square called Ninjutsu Hiroba, a powerful ninja show is held. It is very popular here.
Reviews : Trip Advisor
Access : Access to the Museum / Access to Iga City
SEIRYU-KAN 正柳館
Region : Tokyo
Official website : SEIRYUKAN via Google Translate Web
Seiryu-Kan is originally a dojo (training place) for multi martial arts not only swordsmanship etc but also Ninja-dojo and Ninjutsu. They broaden the “dojo business” to online and tourism field, too. Providing some day courses or two days to experience being a Ninja.
- Samurai & Ninja experience tour
- Child and parent Ninja experience tour
- Full experience of Japanese culture, camp in the martial art school
Map : Google Map
Shinobi-Samurai Honjin Dojo by Musashi Ninja Clan 江戸隠密武蔵一族本陣道場
Region : Tokyo
Official website : MUSASHI NINJA CLAN
From the age of wars, to the peaceful Shogunate era, then shifted to the modern times, the roll of Ninjas are also changed time to time. Musashi Ninja clan was worked for Tokugawa shogunate over 200 years in order to protect the peace, now they open their school to hand on the skills and knowledges at the dojo in Tokyo, further more they send out seminar instructors and show performers. Looks like they also give a short Ninja / Samurai course for visitors. Lets check out the cool website.
Access : Official website