The small building at the north-east of Gion is where you will find the inventor, Gyotensai. You can enter this building anytime from 5-1 onwards. You can start inventing after talking to Gyotensai for the first time. More items become available to invent as you progress through the main story. Some of these items become available to purchase at stores after inventing them. There is also a request which involves Gyotensai - request 97

You can get a certain revelation here, as well as receive a recipe book for creating new weapons from Gyotensai.

There are 21 items that can be invented in this game. Some of the items will become available to invent as you progress through the game, however there are some items that will only become available once certain conditions are met. Check the table below for details. All inventions request certain items as "materials" for inventing that item. Some of these items can be obtained as a reward for completing some requests, or from the arena, or from storage lockers.

For materials listed in green writing, the name of the items is unknown. If you choose the wrong item you get a hint, but all the items you used to try inventing it get wasted.

Like the inventor, Gyotensai, Shichigoro is located in Gion. He appears at 5-4 in the main story and gives you pictures required for revelations. It's impossible to miss him, since you must encounter him during the main story progression, so don't worry about that. When he has new pictures to give to you, he will send a pigeon giving you a letter telling you to visit him at the shrine in Gion.

When you first meet him, he will give you a picture of a cat, along with a brush and ink Kiryu can use to write his revelations.

Revelations unlock new heat actions Kiryu can use in combat. There are some revelations that can be acquired simply by completing certain training, but this section looks at revelations you get from pictures. The table below explains how to get hold of all the pictures. For further details, such as the locations of the revelations and the correct buttons to press in the quick-time events, see the revelations section of this guide.

Steps to acquiring a revelation

You can use the blacksmith any time from 5-13 onwards. You cannot miss it since you encounter it as part of the main story. You can use the blacksmith at any time of the day. When you encounter the blacksmith during the main story, the guy will explain about refining and crafting weapons. In the case of the former, you can make your current weapons stronger. In the case of the latter, you can create a new weapon by using one of your (eligible) weapons as a base along with specific materials. You need recipe books to craft weapons, but all you need is money to refine weapons.

The recipe books will tell you what weapons can be created and what materials you need in order to craft it.

The palanquins are this game's version of the taxi system from other Ryu ga Gotoku games. There are 3 locations which have palanquins - Rakugai, Yoshioka Dojo, and the Riverside Tea House. You can fast travel at any time of the day. This is useful to use if you want to quickly get around the game world, or if you just want to avoid enemy encounters. The palanquin system only becomes available from 5-13 though. It costs 71 Mon for each use.

At first, you can only travel across different parts of Rakugai. You can only fast travel to the other 2 locations once you have visited that location. Also, when you have NPCs accompanying you while travelling the game world, you cannot use the palanquins.

There are specific parts of the main story when you cannot use the palanquins. At these times, you'll have to get to your destination on foot.

In various places across the game you will encounter shining Jizo statues. When you interact with these statues, you will have the option to either save or use your item storage. Note that the item storage functionality is only available from 5-1 onwards.

Kiryu's item storage can store a max of 500 items.

Located at the north-west of Rakugai, the bulletin board is where you can get new bounties. When you pass by the police box for the first time after 6-1 the Okappiki will stop you and introduce you to bounties. Completing bounties will give you various rewards. New bounties become available as you progress through the game (and some require you to complete other bounties first). Full details can be found on the bounties page of this site.

The wanted posters have details about the criminal's name, a sketch of their face, the time and place where you can find them, and the reward for capturing them.

The lockers are located in an alley near the main gates of Gion. There are 50 storage keys spread across the game, ranging from A-1 to J-5. When you find a key and open the corresponding locker here, you will receive an item. The keys will only appear after completing commission 104, which is available in 5-5. See the Locker Keys page for full details.

Storage lockers are part of the game's completion menu. If you select the storage lockers from the completion screen you can check what keys you have and which lockers you have already opened.

The information desk is found along the main road of Gion. Here, you can get information about the yujo in Gion. There are 2 brothels you can visit in this game - Azamiya and Yumejiya, with 7 yujo available to you in total. You can also get information about Gion and the gambling den here.

You can get useful advice about what options to pick in conversation with the yujo from here.

The pigeon and postman deliver letters to Kiryu. The pigeons generally deliver "express delivery" letters, including letters informing you that new drawings are available from Shichigoro, or new training is available from the various trainers in the game. The postman is more of a courier service and delivers completion rewards.

Various events can trigger a pigeon or postman delivery, such as when new training becomes available after leveling up.

You first compete in the arena in 8-10 as part of the story, but you cannot freely use the arena until 9-1. There are 12 tournaments in total and 50 fighters to compete against. At first, you can only compete in 2 of the tournaments. More will become available as you progress through the game, or by winning certain tournaments a certain amount of times. Each tournament consists of 8 fighters (including Kiryu) and 3 rounds. If you win all 3 rounds, you win the tournament and receive various rewards.

There's a monk near the reception desk. If you speak to him, he will give you tips on how you unlock new tournaments.