Hiyoshi Springs

Hiyoshi Springs proper

This includes the settlement’s central buildings and directly attached facilities:

Immediate Hiyoshi outskirts

These are close enough to be encountered while exploring from the town, but should not automatically be treated as buildings within the settlement:

Separate neighbouring locations

These belong in related-location directories rather than the town’s internal directory:

This distinction matters because activity guides often use “Hiyoshi Springs” as a broad label for several nearby icons. The town, the hidden hot spring and the northern Haiku are linked in the player’s exploration route, but they are not one interchangeable location.

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Suggested approach route

This route lets the player collect the area’s principal permanent upgrades before progressing deeply into the character questline.

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Merchant

The settlement contains a Merchant. As with other merchants in the base game, the merchant is a general supplier for cosmetic items and other available stock rather than a unique Hiyoshi-only shop. The exact inventory depends on the player’s progression, available flowers and unlocked items.

Status: Functional shop.

Bowyer

The Bowyer is a functional upgrade facility. It is relevant to Jin’s ranged equipment and should be visited after obtaining or improving the Half Bow. The bowyer is especially useful because Hiyoshi Springs is tied to Ishikawa’s archery storyline and the early acquisition of the Half Bow.

Status: Functional upgrade service.

Trapper

The Trapper provides capacity upgrades in exchange for pelts. Players who are exploring the surrounding forests can use Hiyoshi Springs as an early place to convert collected animal hides into improved ammunition or carrying capacity, depending on the currently available upgrade.

Status: Functional upgrade service.

Hiyoshi Inn

The inn is the settlement’s most recognisable building and an important social landmark. It is associated with the town’s hot spring, the opening stages of Ishikawa’s tale and later local conversations.

The inn should not be treated as a conventional purchasable property or a player-owned base. It is a story-world building that supports conversations and environmental activity.

Status: Enterable story-world building and local landmark.

Service directory

The available evidence confirms the three named services above, but does not establish that every visible stall or background structure is a separate functional business. Decorative buildings should therefore be treated as scenery unless the player can interact with them as a named service.

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Hiyoshi Inn Hot Spring

The Hiyoshi Inn Hot Spring is one of the area’s most important discoveries and one of its easiest to overlook. Unlike most hot springs, it does not initially appear as an ordinary question-mark discovery. The player must speak to a woman near the main structure, close to the inn, and she directs Jin to the bathing place.

The Hiyoshi spring is unusual in another respect. It is reported as the only hot spring in the base game that Jin cannot repeatedly rest at after the first use. This makes it different from the normal permanently reusable hot-spring interactions.

How to find it

Reward: Increased maximum health.

Missability: The spring is not permanently missable in the ordinary story-progression sense, but it can be missed during a first visit if the player does not speak to the woman or thoroughly search the settlement.

Hiyoshi Springs Bamboo Strike

The Bamboo Strike lies on the northern side of the settlement. A local peasant introduces or marks the activity when Jin approaches. Completing the three cutting sequences increases Jin’s maximum Resolve by one unit.

The activity requires timed button inputs. The number of bamboo stalks increases during the sequence, and the player must cut each displayed combination correctly before time expires.

Reward: Increased maximum Resolve.

Practical advice

Status: Permanent exploration activity.

Hiyoshi Haiku

The Hiyoshi Haiku is north of the settlement, on a hillside. It is not necessarily presented as a normal Haiku icon immediately. A man sitting on a rock calls out to Jin and provides a short introduction to the activity. Only after speaking to him does the location become available as a normal Haiku interaction.

Completing it awards the Headband of Serenity.

How to find it

Reward: Headband of Serenity.

Missability: It is easy to overlook because it is introduced by an NPC rather than simply appearing as a clearly marked activity. It remains one of the first places worth checking if the player is missing an early headband or Haiku entry.

Activity directory

The Hiyoshi Haiku and Hiyoshi Inn Hot Spring are both associated with the settlement in many activity lists, but their interaction points are not identical to the central inn-and-services cluster.

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Recommended order

This order is not mandatory. Players can begin the tale immediately, but the local upgrades make the opening hours more forgiving.

Permanent or service-associated residents

Some of these characters are identified by their role rather than by personal names. The game does not provide a personal name for every resident encountered in the settlement.

Story-associated visitors

Sensei Ishikawa’s presence is tied to the early tale and his nearby dojo. He should not be treated as an ordinary permanent resident of the settlement.

Nearby tale characters

These characters belong to Incident at Hiyoshi Pass, not to the central Hiyoshi Springs population.

Named-character directory

The innkeeper, merchant, bowyer, trapper and activity introducers are role-based NPCs in the available game documentation, so they are listed by function rather than assigned invented personal names.

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Security status

The settlement can therefore be used as a safe resupply and upgrade stop, but the roads leading away from it are not automatically safe.

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Hiyoshi Inn

The central inn is the most important built landmark. It provides the social setting for local conversations and helps direct Jin towards Sensei Ishikawa’s Dojo.

Hiyoshi Inn Hot Spring

The bathing area is physically associated with the inn but functions as a separate collectible and health-upgrade interaction.

Hiyoshi Springs Bamboo Strike

This is positioned on the northern side of the settlement and should be treated as an activity landmark rather than an ordinary building.

Sensei Ishikawa’s Dojo

The dojo is a separate nearby location associated with Ishikawa’s tale. It is not simply another room or service inside Hiyoshi Springs.

Hidden Springs Forest

Hidden Springs Forest is a neighbouring regional feature. It is close enough to shape the routes around Hiyoshi Springs, but it should not be treated as a sub-building or district of the settlement.

Hiyoshi Pass

Hiyoshi Pass is a separate nearby route and tale location. Its association with Hiyoshi is geographical, not administrative.

Consolidated landmark directory

Within or directly attached to Hiyoshi Springs

Nearby but separate

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Route B: completion check

Use this if the map appears clear but the collection totals are incomplete:

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After beginning Ishikawa’s tale

The available sources do not establish a comprehensive list of every possible post-tale dialogue change for every unnamed villager. Such conversations can also vary according to story progress, so they should not be treated as a fixed population directory without direct in-game verification.

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The hot spring is not marked normally

The Hiyoshi Inn Hot Spring is the most important secret in the area. Players who only follow question marks may leave Hiyoshi Springs without registering it. Speaking to the woman near the inn is the reliable solution.

The northern Haiku needs an introduction

The Hiyoshi Haiku is also easy to miss because the player first has to locate and speak with its introductory NPC. It may not behave like a standard marked Haiku until this conversation has taken place.

Bamboo and a dead Mongol

A small environmental interaction near the springs involves a villager cutting bamboo beside a dead Mongol, with bamboo appearing to have grown through the body. The scene has no confirmed major gameplay reward in the available evidence, but it is a notable piece of environmental storytelling associated with the settlement.

Do not confuse nearby Haiku entries

There is another Hiyoshi-associated Haiku south of Old Woodsman’s Canopy. It is not the same as the introductory Haiku immediately north of Hiyoshi Springs. Guides that use “Hiyoshi Haiku” loosely can make these appear to be one activity.

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Rewards

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