Passengers dressed in ninja costumes are given free travel along the Iga Tetsudo line from April 1 to May 6 to mark the Japanese city’s popular ninja festival.

Ninja enjoying free train ride in Iga, Japan
A ‘ninja’ enjoying the free ride (Image from Reuters)

Iga is a city 450 kilometres from Tokyo and known to many Japanese as one of the traditional home towns of the ninjas.

It should be quite a scene when the festival reached its peak, with all the ninjas wandering around.


8 Responses to “Free ride for ninjas in Japan”

  1. #1. bb on April 9th, 2008

    wow, so many cool festivals in japan!
    the ninja costumes are so cute~

  2. #2. YeinJee on April 9th, 2008

    Well, that’s why Japanese is one of the global trend leaders… their traditions are pretty interesting at the first place, and it seems like they know to preserve it nicely while blending it with the popular culture.

  3. #3. bb on April 10th, 2008

    totally agree yeinjee!
    gotta visit japan sometime =]

  4. #4. YeinJee on April 10th, 2008

    Ya, where are you from btw?

  5. #5. bb on April 11th, 2008

    i’m from canada =]

  6. #6. Anonymous on April 18th, 2008

    ninja turtle can get free ride too?

  7. #7. YeinJee on April 18th, 2008

    I think turtles don’t have to pay for a ticket regardless :)

  8. #8. sameer on August 13th, 2009

    ninjas from japan do u know where is naruto or sasuke and can u teach me jutsu like genjutsu taijutsu or the demon wind style shuriken rasengan and you guys are cool can you guys tell me when youring going to do somthin


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