This pair of facilities in Togakushi, Nagano City, preserves the folk culture and legends of the mountain ascetics' village. The Togakushi Folk Museum displays soba-making tools, farm implements, folk artifacts, and Shugendo ritual objects that illuminate local life. Alongside it, the Ninja Trick House is a hands-on attraction themed on the ninja legends of Togakushi, where visitors can experience…

Togakushi has long been revered as a sacred site of Shugendo mountain asceticism, and it is said that Togakushisan Kenkoji Temple—the precursor of the present Togakushi Shrine—was established there during the Heian period. The rigorous mountain training practiced by ascetics became intertwined with …