Ninja Temple

Today was a public holiday here in Japan... Labour thanksgiving day..... so i went to Kanazawa and visited the Ninja Dera or Ninja Temple!!! It was really great! The temple has 4 floors and 7 layers but from the outside is only looks like 2 layers because they wernt supposed to have buildings anymore than 3 stories high back in the Edo period. The temple was moved by the third lord, Toshitsune to its current location in 1643. This Temple also known as Myoryuji has braved the elements for more than three hundred and fifty years and survived world war 2. It has 23 rooms and 29 staircases. It has loads of secret rooms, trick doors and even a suicidal room where once you were in you couldnt get out and was often used for the ninja`s who lost battles..here they would have to kill themselves by slitting their own stomachs. It also has a water well which is made out of the same stone as Kanazawa castle on the other side of the river... Apparently there is an underground tunnel from the temple to the castle but this is yet to be discovered! Its such a fabulous, interesting and mysterious place! Go see it!!

p.s... I also found the Body Shop!! YAH!!!