Konoha Locations

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Konoha Locations

Konohagakure Front Gates

Forty-fourth Training Ground

The Forty-fourth Training Ground, also known as the Forest of Death was the stage for the second part of the Konoha Chunin exams, proctored by Anko Mitarashi. Its primary function served as a testing ground for the survival and fighting skills of Genin trying to become a Chunin. It was a very dangerous place, filled with hordes of flora and fauna; often gigantic, poisonous — or even more likely, both — hence its name.

A metallic fence surrounds its perimeter with 44 gates equally spaced around it; this perimeter is where the shinobi entered. Inside is a river, the forest, and a tower located in the exact center; the forest's radius is about ten kilometers.

Hokage Monument

The Hokage Monument, or Hokage Mountain, is the most representative trait of Konohagakure. It is a mountain that has had the faces of all the Hokage carved into the stone. During the first episode, Naruto Uzumaki painted the faces of the four Hokage as a joke, and revealed that he planned to surpass them, stating that his face will someday too be in the monument. He also did it to grab attention, as the people of Konoha despised him for having the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox sealed inside him. At the beginning of the series, the Monument had the faces of the First Hokage, the Second Hokage, the Third Hokage, and the Fourth Hokage. During the timeskip, the face of the Fifth Hokage was added to the mountain, as Naruto found out in the first episode of Naruto Shippuden.

The Monument has been important during many parts of the story, mostly because of its symbolism:

• During Orochimaru's attack on Konoha, The Third Hokage's face cracked, giving a bad omen.
  
• During the Konoha 11 filler arc, the climax occurred at the Hokage Monument, symbolizing that the future of the village was safe in the hands of the Genin.
  
• During Pain's Invasion of Konoha arc, after using Shinra Tensei, most of the village was destroyed, but the Hokage Monument endured the gravitational attack. After watching the Hokage Monument, while standing next to a wasteland, Naruto realized, after coming back, that Konoha had been destroyed.

The Konoha Library was built into the mountain of the Hokage Monument and also endured Pain's attack.

Hokage Residence

The Hokage Residence is a large mansion occupied by the Hokage during their reign, and is located close to both the Ninja Academy and Hokage Monument. Built during the reign of the First Hokage, the Hokage mansion was occupied by Tsunade, the Fifth Hokage, before it was destroyed by the Deva Path's large scale Shinra Tensei during Pain Invasion of Konoha. It is filled with many forbidden scrolls, in which lie the secrets to many jutsu. Shortly before Tsunade becomes Hokage, Konohamaru, the Third Hokage's grandson, locks himself in the Hokage Mansion and sets it full of traps, although Tsunade easily managed to get past them all.

Ichiraku Ramen Bar

The Ichiraku Ramen Bar is Naruto Uzumaki and Iruka Umino's favorite place to eat. It is run by Teuchi and his daughter Ayame. The two consider Naruto their favorite customer and have never viewed him in a negative light. In Part II of the manga, Ayame goes on a trip and Matsu and Nishi are hired to replace her. Both are fairly inept and either spill the ramen they serve or accidentally stick their fingers in it. The bar was destroyed during Pain's invasion and a new one was built sometime after the invasion.

Konoha Strict Correctional Facility

The Konoha Strict Correctional Facility is a place where shinobi who have committed serious crimes work off their debt to society. The prison houses those that are murderers and criminal ninjas who have broken the law. Known members of this facility are Mizuki, Fujin and Raijin. In the past this place used to be called the Special Ninja Felony Prison.

Konoha Hospital

The Konoha Hospital serves the medical needs of ninja and other villagers in Konohagakure. Though the staff is skilled enough to treat most basic ailments, Tsunade and other more advanced medical-nin must step in to assist with severe injuries. Security for the hospital is apparently lax, as Gaara is able to get into Rock Lee's room to try and kill him. During the invasion of Pain, the hospital is overwhelmed by the number of casualties caused by Pain.

Konoha Hot Springs

The Konoha Hot Springs is the public bath of Konohagakure, divided down the middle between the sexes. Ninja can use the baths as a training ground for basic chakra training. Using the the hot water as a form of motivation, the trainee is more focused in using their chakra to support themselves on the water. This is where Naruto is taken by Jiraiya to relax during his training.

Memorial stone

The memorial stone is a monument in Konoha that lists all of their ninja that were killed in action. It is located near where Team 7 had their first bell test. When Naruto remarked that he wanted to have his name added to the monument, Kakashi informed him of what it was for, prompting Naruto to change his mind. Kakashi spends much of his free time at the monument because his former teammate, Obito Uchiha's, name is engraved there. Hayate Gekkō and Iruka's parents' names are also listed.

Naka Shrine

The Naka Shrine is a shrine in Konoha. In the main hall, beneath the seventh tatami mat from the far right, is a secret meeting place of the Uchiha clan. In there is a tablet containing the clan's secrets. The tablet can only be read with specific dōjutsu, with the Sharingan, Mangekyō Sharingan, and Rinnegan being able to read more than the other, respectively. Here the secrets of the Mangekyō Sharingan are written, as is the story of the Sage of the Six Paths and the Ten-Tailed Beast.

Third Training Ground

The Third Training Ground, is a training ground where Konoha shinobi honed their skills. The Third Training Field was the first place Team Kakashi trained, using the bell training that even the Third Hokage used on his own students. Sakura and Sasuke had the bell while Naruto was trying to skip the bell training and just go after the reward without getting the bell. Because of this, Naruto ends being tied up while forced to watch his comrades eat. But, his comrades broke the rule and gave Naruto some of their food. Knowing this, Kakashi appears and said that "In the ninja world, those who break the rules and regulations are called trash, but those who don't care about their comrades are worse than trash."

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Ninja Academy

The Ninja Academy is Konoha's training center for Academy Students before they become Genin. It was founded by Tobirama Senju, the Second Hokage.

This building can be identified by the tree in front which has a swing on it. Classrooms in the academy are large and have high ceilings, based on a theory that larger classrooms lead to expansive education, expanding even to the blackboard itself. In front of the blackboard is a podium, situated far from the students' desks and put in a position where the teacher can view everyone at once.

Admission Requirements for Konoha's Academy

• Love the village and hope to help preserve peace and prosperity.
  
• Have a mind that will not yield, able to endure hard training and work.
  
• Be healthy in mind and body.

If the above conditions are met, admission to the Academy will be granted.

Curriculum

Aside from the obvious lessons one would learn from a Ninja Academy, all students receive essential knowledge, such as reading, writing, mathematics, science, geography, etc. Sakura Haruno and Ino Yamanaka are also shown to have taken special kunoichi classes, where they were taught things about other cultures and how knowledge of things like flower arranging will help them to blend in during an infiltration mission. Students also have to study the Rules of the Shinobi. Special lectures read by highly experienced shinobi are sometimes held.

Taught by Chūnin instructors, all ninja potentials are lectured on tactics and strategies. They are instructed on the basics of trap-setting. They are taken through the handling of ninja weapons and tools, like shuriken and kunai, learning how to throw and wield them through target practice. Academy students are also taught about chakra and how to use it, hand seals and the basic levels of:

• Taijutsu classes serve as the Ninja Academy's equivalent of Physical education class. In taijutsu class, students are engaged in physical activities to help train their bodies and develop their stamina.
  
• Ninjutsu classes provide the bulk of what potential ninja learn at the Academy. The subject of ninjutsu encompasses techniques that use chakra and allows the user to do something that they otherwise would be incapable of doing. Techniques such as the Transformation Technique and the Clone Technique are taught to students at the Academy that will build up to what they'll learn from their Jōnin-sensei.
  
• Genjutsu classes are not touched much upon except for explaining what genjutsu is. When learning about genjutsu, students are advised to determine if they are trapped in a genjutsu, and then how to release themselves from it.

Student Body

The best student of any graduating class is awarded the title of "Number One Rookie;" known Number One Rookies include Neji Hyūga, Sasuke Uchiha, Kakashi Hatake, Orochimaru and Itachi Uchiha. On the bottom end of the pecking order of any graduating class is the "Dead-Last," the name given to the student who performed the worst out of their class; known Dead Lasts include Rock Lee, Naruto Uzumaki, Jiraiya, Obito Uchiha, and Might Guy.

Graduation

Graduating from the Academy usually consists of taking both a written exam and a practical exam, administered by a Chūnin instructor, to earn enough marks to pass. Upon graduating, students receive a forehead protector, proof of their achievement. Graduating students are then separated into squads of three Genin and assigned to a Jōnin-sensei to instruct them further. At this point, they will be tested once again by their Jōnin teacher to assess whether they would be able to handle the demands that will be made of them as ninja (i.e. the dynamics of teamwork).
Students who don't pass the tests set by their Chūnin-sensei may be held back for another year. However, students who do pass the tests set by their Chūnin-sensei, but later fail the tests administered by their assigned Jōnin-sensei, may either be sent back to the academy or else, depending on their performance, dropped from the program at their Jōnin-sensei's discretion.

Although students are only instructed in the use of basic level Genjutsu, Ninjutsu and Taijutsu, knowledge of these techniques are ultimately not pivotal to their success as ninja; students like Rock Lee, who graduated knowing only Taijutsu, and Naruto Uzumaki, who failed to perform the Clone Technique, an E-Rank technique, but could effortlessly perform the Shadow Clone Technique, a B-Rank Jōnin-level technique, are both examples of this.