Little ninja on the platform at Iga-shi station |
The ninja train arrives |
Mannequin in ninja costume at Iga-shi-eki |
Statue of Bashō Matsuo outside Iga-shi-eki |
Buddhist memorial and sakura in Ueno-kōen |
Entering the old castle grounds |
Haiseiden (Poet's Memorial Hall) |
Family having hanami below the donjon |
Lower moat viewed from the 28-meter walls |
Iga Ueno-jō's donjon and cherry blossom |
Donjon and front yagura with sakura |
The surrounds of Iga viewed from the donjon |
Array of tiled roofs |
View over Ueno-kōen |
Pathway along the front of Iga Ueno-jō |
Grandfather and grandchild outside the castle |
Pair of hanami lanterns in a sakura tree |
Gazing up at the donjon |
Group of girls in ninja garb in the castle grounds |
Ninja boy with Iga Ueno-jō's donjon |
Sakura branch and Iga Ueno-jō |
Couple having a quiet hanami |
Iga Ueno-jō viewed from the outer fortifications |
Iga Ueno-jō viewed through the sakura |
Cherry blossom and hanami party |
A ninja family in Ueno-kōen |
Out front the Iga-ryū Ninja Museum |
Cherry blossoms outside Iga City Hall |
Iga Ueno ninja mascots on the platform |
Watch out for the ninja train! |
JR Kansai line train at Iga-Ueno station |
Historic post-town buildings in Seki-juku |
Main street in Seki-juku |
Street of machiya, Seki-juku |
O-mikoshi storage shed, Seki-juku |
View over the main drag of Seki-juku |
Hatago Museum Tamaya, Seki-juku |
Woman with parasol in Seki-juku |
Path to Fukuzō-ji |
Kimono-clad woman posing beneath the sakura |
Jizō-in and sakura |
Street scene in Seki-juku |
Front of a shop, Seki-juku |
Storefront of an old machiya, Seki-juku |
Remnants of Kameyama-jō |
Decaying old house beside a pond, Kameyama |
Battle memorial marker in Kameyama |
Tamon-yagura (former watchtower) of Kameyama-jō |
Cherry blossoms below the castle walls |
Kameyama-jō and surrounding sakura |
Beneath Tamon-yagura, Kameyama |
Fountain in Kameyama-kōen |