Kyoto Walkthrough in Onimusha: Way of the Sword (All Collectibles)

Kyoto is where Onimusha: Way of the Sword stops being a corridor and starts asking you to sweep. Four quest chains run through the district, they overlap in geography, and most of the region’s materials sit in stalls, jars, and side chests that are easy to walk past. Doing it in a sensible order saves you a second lap.

Quick answer: Run Kyoto in the order The Light of Vengeance → The Roots of All Evil → The Odd Couples → The Faceless, unlocking the Kamo River – East, Kiyomizu-zaka Slope, Kiyomizu-dera Temple – The Approach, Higashioji Street, and Shijo Street Spirit Mirrors as you pass them. Buy Oni Vision: Treasures before the cleanup lap so chests light up instead of hiding.

Kyoto quest order and what each one pays out

The four Kyoto chains chain into each other. Finishing one usually drops you within walking distance of the next trigger, so there is no reason to jump between them.

Quest	Opening objective	Key items along the way
The Light of Vengeance	Speak with the anxious boy	Malice x2, Malice Mass x1, Whetstone x2, Tempered Iron x1, Tamahagane x1 on completion
The Roots of All Evil	Speak with Takamura	Hempen Cloth x1 from a house chest, plus Fine Silk Cloth and Oni Stones
The Odd Couples	Starts at the Higashioji Street stalls	Old Drawing No. 3, Prayer Beads x1, Leather x1, Greater Might Talisman x1
The Faceless	Head for the house inhabited by the Faceless	Greater Defense Talisman x1, Skeleton Honoki x1, Horn Token (Blazing) x1, Oni Cloth (Resistance) x1

Several of these also register as Mysteries of Kyoto, which live in the Curious Cases menu as Observations and show up on the map as a butterfly marker. They do not appear at all until you finish the mission “What Lurks in the Shadows,” and The Faceless specifically only becomes available after “Okuni’s Kabuki Dance.” Finding all eight Mysteries unlocks the Demystified trophy.

Spirit Mirrors to unlock across the Kyoto route

Spirit Mirrors are your save points and fast travel anchors, and the Kyoto loop is built around five of them. Touch each one the moment you see it, even if you are mid-fight cleanup, because the route doubles back constantly.

Spirit Mirror	What it puts you next to
Kamo River – East	Bow encounters, Prayer Beads, Honoki patches, civilians under attack
Kiyomizu-zaka Slope	Ore Stone chest, the bamboo forest, the scent trail for the boy’s father
Kiyomizu-dera Temple – The Approach	Deep forest Kogashira fights, the wooden gate, the Malice Barrier
Higashioji Street	Sake and millet stalls, the start of The Odd Couples
Shijo Street	Hidden Treasure No. 3 and the Byakue arena

Note: Spirit Mirror unlock progress does not carry into New Game+, so a second run means re-lighting all of them.

Oni Power abilities the Kyoto route depends on

Two Oni Power uses gate progress here rather than just helping. The spirit fox transformation reveals hidden paths and lets you follow scent trails, and it is the only way to track the missing father or slip past certain blocked routes. Red Malice Barriers, meanwhile, need a charged Oni Power gauge to break — if the barrier ignores you, you simply do not have enough energy banked yet.

For collectibles, hold your Oni Vision inputs and pulse them constantly. Three Special Skills — Oni Vision: Treasures, Oni Vision: Treasures 2, and Oni Vision: Search Range — turn the material hunt from guesswork into a scan, so it is worth saving Oni Stones for them before spending on anything else. Holding L2/LT and repeatedly tapping R2/RT while you walk is the habit that catches the stragglers.

The Light of Vengeance: full route and pickups

Talk to the anxious boy to open the quest, then clear the street fight against Hitotsume Gasa and the flying Kubi Akari. A chest in this opening stretch holds Iron x1 and Cotton Cloth x1.

The Light of Vengeance quest tracker pointing to the anxious boy objective marker in the village — The Light of Vengeance tracker marking the anxious boy as your first objective. Image: CAPCOM

Fast travel to Kamo River – East and clear the ranged enemies with the bow. This stretch drops Prayer Beads x1, Honoki, Wheat x1, and Persimmon x1, and you will need to defend civilians from an ambush partway through.

Enter the Leaning Pagoda of Kyoto and climb the ladders to the top. Use Oni Power to become the spirit fox and reveal the hidden path, and grab the Minor Miracle Cure x1 sitting on the pagoda stairs.

Travel to Kiyomizu-zaka Slope and open the chest holding Ore Stone x1. Push into the bamboo forest, clear the enemies, and pull the Honoki plants along the path.

Player climbing stone stairs with the Speak with the anxious boy objective still tracked on screen — The stone stairs stretch of the Kiyomizu-zaka Slope leg, with the objective still tracked. Image: CAPCOM

Switch to the spirit fox and follow the scent trail, then return to the Kiyomizu-zaka Slope mirror and search the Kyoto streets for the boy’s father.

Fast travel to Kiyomizu-dera Temple – The Approach and fight through the Kogashira in the deep forest. Collect Millet x1 from a jar, then open the large wooden gate to continue.

Break the red Malice Barrier with Oni Power, transform into the fox to follow the trail through it, and survive the waves that seal the red Malice Rift. That closes the quest and pays out Malice x2, Malice Mass x1, Whetstone x2, Tempered Iron x1, and Tamahagane x1.

Chasing the man consumed by vengeance through the dark forest during the final leg of the quest — The dark forest pursuit that closes out The Light of Vengeance. Image: CAPCOM

The Roots of All Evil and the Higashioji Street stalls

The Roots of All Evil opens right after the rift closes, with Takamura as your target. Head to the marked NPC before clearing anything else.

The Roots of All Evil objective Speak with Takamura shown while approaching a marked NPC on a village street — The Roots of All Evil begins with the Speak with Takamura objective. Image: CAPCOM

Enter the nearby house, clear the enemies inside, and open the chest for Hempen Cloth x1. Outside, pick up a Whetstone x1 and the Honoki growing around the building.

Fast travel to Higashioji Street. The stalls along this stretch hold Seven-Year Sake x1, Unrefined Sake x1, Six-Year Sake x1, and Millet x1 — the sake is easy to miss because it sits among ordinary set dressing.

Map screen with Spirit Mirror Higashioji Street highlighted and Set Marker available — The map view for the Higashioji Street Spirit Mirror, your fast travel point for this leg. Image: CAPCOM

The Odd Couples starts here as soon as you reach the stalls, so both chains run in parallel from this point on.

Old Drawing No. 3 and the Hidden Treasure No. 3 location

Hidden treasures work off drawings. A chest near the Higashioji Street stalls contains Old Drawing No. 3 x1 alongside Prayer Beads x1 and Leather x1, and that drawing is what points you at the dig site. Read it, then match the sketch to the real location.

Hidden Treasure No. 3 sits near Shijo Street. Unlock the Shijo Street Spirit Mirror while you are there, and grab the Greater Might Talisman x1 on the way through. The hidden chest in this pocket of the district holds Five Silk Cloth x1, Power Stone x1, Soul Sacker x1, and Leather x2 — one of the denser single pickups in the region.

Byakue – Hundred Defilements and the loot around the arena

Byakue – Hundred Defilements is the Kyoto boss, and clearing it hands you Horn Token (Reflex) x1 plus assorted materials. Do not fast travel away the second it dies, because the surrounding area is stacked.

Climb the scaffolding beside the arena for Persimmon x1 and Leather x2, then collect Oni Cloth (Awakening) x1 from the glowing spot nearby. A group of Genma waits inside the adjacent building; clearing them triggers The Faceless and opens up the last cluster of pickups — Greater Defense Talisman x1, Skeleton Honoki x1, Horn Token (Blazing) x1, and Oni Cloth (Resistance) x1.

How to confirm a Kyoto objective registered

Every meaningful step in Kyoto announces itself. A “Curious Cases Updated” banner means a Mystery or Observation has been logged, and it fires on things like reaching the Leaning Pagoda of Kyoto or completing a quest leg. Quest completion shows the reward list on screen, and a “Ready to Enhance” prompt appears once you have enough materials to spend.

If something is not triggering, the reasons are narrow. Mysteries of Kyoto do not exist in your log before “What Lurks in the Shadows” is done. The Faceless is locked behind “Okuni’s Kabuki Dance.” And a red Malice Barrier that will not break is an Oni Power problem, not a positioning one — fight something and come back.

Kyoto cleanup and what survives New Game+

Nothing in Kyoto is permanently missable. Free roam stays open right up to the Point of No Return before the final mission “The Clash At Rendaino,” and keeping a manual save at that prompt lets you return and finish the sweep. After the credits, choosing Continue from the main menu also drops you back before that mission.

That matters because full completion covers 274 collectible locations across the game, and a second playthrough is mandatory anyway — Carnage difficulty only unlocks after your first clear. If you plan to redo Kyoto in New Game+, know what resets.

Carries into New Game+	Resets in New Game+
Awakened Oni Abilities	Mysteries of Kyoto
Enhanced basic and special Skills	Chance Encounters
Hozuki Pouches and Pouch Enhancements	Clothing
Items, Charms and Charm Enhancements	Sword and Gauntlet Enhancements
Genma Notes and Lion Dogs	Red Souls and Spirit Mirror progress

Because Mysteries of Kyoto and Chance Encounters wipe, the Kyoto quest chains are the part you want finished on your first run rather than saved for later. Materials like Fine Silk Cloth, Tamahagane, Power Stones, and Oni Stones are the opposite — those feed the Well-Rounded and Dressed to Kill trophies and can be topped up across two playthroughs.

Kyoto rewards patience more than speed. Save citizens where you find them, pull every Honoki plant you walk past, and keep Oni Vision pulsing between fights — the district hides enough Whetstones, sake, and cloth in stalls and side rooms that a careful first pass will spare you an entire cleanup lap later.