Hotel in Japan's Iga Ueno City with replicas of fire arrows

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Hotel in Japan's Iga Ueno City with replicas of fire arrows

IGA, Mie guests are now welcome to stay in the first hotel rooms, adorned with replicas of fire arrows and other tools from a ninja museum in this west Japan city.

The Ninja Museum of Igaryu and its operating company, the Iga-Ueno Tourist Association, joined forces with an event planning company based in the city of Kyoto in December 2021 to create the ninja rooms at hotels and other lodging facilities. Due to factors such as the coronaviruses, no orders had been placed for the service.

Around 2015, the Iga Ueno City Hotel started creating its own style of ninja-themed rooms with one room per floor 4, 6 and 8 with features such as ninja wallpaper and scrolls containing riddles hidden under movable flooring. The museum's service was requested by the hotel, with work completed this month. Kazuhiro Matsumoto, the hotel's manager, said that they decided to open the ninja rooms partly in hopes of attracting foreign tourists.

The ninja room on the hotel's fourth floor is equipped with a 120 centimeter-wide by 80 centimeter-tall display on the theme, firearms of the Igaryu ninja, with replicas of various types of fire arrows that were used by ninjas, along with excerpts of literature from the Edo period containing references to the items.

The sixth floor has replicas of grappling hooks and other ninja stealth tools, while combat tools such as the infamous shuriken throwing stars are displayed in the eighth floor's ninja room. In three rooms are also paper lanterns with the crest of the famous Momochi ninja family.

The museum has indicated that rooms with other ninja items are possible. The Iga Ueno Tourist Association said it would like to follow up with other ideas, such as a Hattori Hanzo room, after the famous Sengoku-period ninja and the castle shinobikomi room. The ninja rooms are 23 square meters and can accommodate up to four people. For inquiries, the hotel can be reached by phone at 0595 -- 22 -- 0101 in Japanese.