It has been over a week since I went to Edomura (Edo Wonderland) to receive useful Ninja training (read previous post). Actually, Edomura is a theme park that is built like an ancient ninja city. Edomura is up near Nikko, so I went with my friend Matt who works for ECC close to there. When we got there the weather was slightly cold yet still very nice. Edomura was amazing, there were ninja’s everywhere just walking around. The entire area looked like it was the set of a movie as there was no modern looking buildings to be found anywhere. We saw a few ninja shows, a cool water show, and a parade thing. We also saw some interesting ninja museums, like the ninja tools museum, and the katana museum. They also had some cool areas, like the prison area where they had amazing wax figures in some of the old Japanese torture devices. There was also a ninja maze, and a ninja haunted temple thing, and a ninja house, and many other ninja things. Yet with all the cool ninja things to see and do, the trip was also very informative. I learned a lot about the famous ninjas of the past, and about the biggest of the ninja clans, and lot of ninja history as well. Afterwards we decided to walk to the train station. It was getting dark and the temperature was maybe dropping below freezing, not to mention that I was unprepared for cold weather as always, yet it was still fun trying to find our way back to the train station.

Of course, any trip to Nikko, or at least around Nikko, would not be complete without stopping at Utsunomiya for some famous gyoza. We finally made it back in time to be able to eat at ‘MinMin’ one of the more famous gyoza places in Utsunomiya. Honestly, the weekend was a lot of fun.

View the entire Edomura gallery: Edomura Gallery