Togakushi Ninja Museum・Ninja Trick Mansion — Attraction in Nagano

Great fun, the trick house is definitely the best bit, it's absolutely hilarious. It's a puzzle to get even through the first room, only getting harder from then on. Absolutely worth a visit. Just explore it thoroughly before you leave, you can miss things. The rest of the area includes an obstacle course, with some surprisingly difficult challenges, such as a tightrope, which is low and safe, a horizontal climbing wall, and a small zipline. It's all suitable for kids, and would be pretty hard to hurt yourself on.

There's two small museums, both of which are entirely in Japanese, one on ninja, featuring weapons and photographs, and one on local living, with clothes, and farming tools etc. The ninja one is the one I preferred.

There's also a "shuriken school", which is an additional ¥200 for seven shuriken. If you can hit a target with five you can win a prize. I don't think it's rigged, just difficult. So maybe practice before you go!

There is a cafe on site, but I didn't go, and a gift shop selling ninja stuff, mostly for kids, but you can buy fairly dangerous looking metal (blunt-ish) shuriken that would still do a lot of damage if...

This place is simple but fun. It’s worth the trip. The folk museum has some interesting pieces of life during the Meiji era. The Ninja museum has a lot of cool weapons on display.

The best part is the Ninja house. My family had so much fun trying to figure out how to get out. I won’t give anything away, but it was so much fun, and interesting. There’s also some Ninja training equipment for kids to try. The bridge was pretty fun.

You can also try your luck at throwing stars. If you hit the target 5 out of 7 times, you get a prize. It’s a very nice prize. It’s not a plastic toy like at the other Ninja park. It’s a very nice ninja fan. My family tried the stars, and I was the only one to get 5 hits. It was so much fun, that before we left, we tried again. I won another fan. Lol

The staff is friendly and kind. It’s not expensive to get in. It’s so...

If you can get here and want a day out, visit the entire area. You will need a day too if you visit the other local places but you should be able to fit this in within an afternoon. It cost me 600yen as an adult and kids are 200yen each. There other additional costs into certain museum buildings but check first as to what's inside because one or two might be with kids in mind but the history there and what you can see is extensive. The displays show local Ninjitsu tradition going back over 200 years but there's also much more from the daily lives of the people living in this area. If you're a family, take 10,000yen as there's a lot the kids might want. For an adult, less than 5000 will give you a good visit if you want to buy...