Assassin's Creed Shadows: Ornament Vendor Locations & Interactive Tracking Guide

Then you discover that the Tea Bowls needed for the Suture Self trophy are sold from these exact stalls, and suddenly the interior decorator is on your critical path.

There are 33 Ornament Vendors across Japan's nine regions, all properly marked on our Assassin's Creed Shadows interactive Japan map.

What an Ornament Vendor Sells

Four categories, and no two vendors stock the same thing. This is the important structural detail — inventory varies stall to stall, so a vendor with the horse you want may be nowhere near the vendor holding the Tea Bowl set you need.

Hideout decorations make up the bulk. Statues, lanterns, screens, garden pieces — everything that turns the Hideout from functional to yours.

New Hideout rooms are sold by some vendors and not others. These are structural additions rather than decoration, so they're worth buying on sight when you find one.

Horse designs and saddles are purely visual. A better-looking mount, no speed or stamina difference whatsoever.

Tea Bowls are quest items, and they're the reason this vendor type matters beyond aesthetics.

Ornament Vendors Gate the Suture Self Trophy

"Tea Bowls for Rikyu" asks for seven Tea Bowl sets, and Ornament Vendors are where you buy them. Completing that quest unlocks the Tea Room for your Hideout.

That Tea Room is one of the three requirements for "Suture Self" (Silver), alongside the Zashiki and all 16 Local Dishes. Miss the Tea Bowls and your rations never reach full healing effect no matter how many dishes you collect.

So the trophy that looks like a food collection quest actually runs through two entirely separate vendor networks.

Ornament Vendors Are Expensive

Be prepared for the prices. Two or three decorations will comfortably clear 2,000 Mon, which in the early game is a meaningful chunk of your funds.

Since none of it affects combat, there's no harm in leaving decoration purchases until the mid-game when Mon stops being scarce. The exception is Tea Bowls — buy those whenever you find them, because that quest chain feeds a trophy.

Where Ornament Vendors Cluster

Most sit in major cities and towns, but a handful turn up in small unnamed roadside settlements where you'd never think to look.

They also frequently share space with other merchants. The Miyazu Bay Ornament Vendor stands directly beside the Port Trader, and Sakai's sits near the Port of Sakai just before the main dock — so a single stop often covers two vendor types.

Two are worth knowing for reasons beyond shopping. The Katano Ornament Vendor, between Katano Castle and Katano Oil Trading, is where the Gamemaker stands — the NPC who starts the Origami Butterfly hunt.

And the Oyamazaki Village vendor carries a strong horse selection alongside multiple saddles, noticeably better looking than your starting mount.

The Four Vendor Types

Ornament Vendors handle cosmetics and Tea Bowls. For everything else:

Gear Vendors (33 across Japan and Awaji) sell weapons, armour, and the unique Engravings that don't rotate. Port Traders (52) handle Hideout upgrade materials and crafting resources. Food Vendors (16) give the Local Dishes that raise your ration cap.

There's overlap in placement but never in stock — an Ornament Vendor will never sell you a weapon, and a Gear Vendor will never sell you a Tea Bowl.