Assassin's Creed Shadows: Port Trader Locations & Interactive Tracking Guide

And there's a geography rule the name gives away — Port Traders only exist where there's water, which means entire regions have none at all. 52 Port Traders are scattered across Japan, all included and ready for tracking on our Assassin's Creed Shadows Japan map.

What a Port Trader Sells and Buys

Hideout materials are the core stock — Wood, Stone, Cloth, and the higher-tier resources that building upgrades demand. When a Hideout project stalls two hundred Wood short, a Port Trader closes the gap in seconds rather than sending you back out to raid Enemy Camps for another hour.

They also stock character upgrade materials, including Oakwood for Yasuke's gear — one of the more awkward resources to farm in quantity.

And crucially, they'll buy your excess. Every other vendor is a one-way transaction. If you've been tagging resource stacks with Scouts and your inventory is overflowing with materials you'll never use, this is where they become Mon.

Port Traders Only Appear Near Water

The name is literal. Port Traders are placed exclusively in settlements with a genuine port — coastal towns, river crossings, and the harbours around Lake Biwa.

Some regions have no Port Trader whatsoever. Landlocked provinces simply go without, so if you're mid-build and short on Stone, check the map before riding for the nearest town rather than assuming one will be there.

Omi is unusually well served given how much of it is Lake Biwa, with traders on effectively every shore.

Port Trader Stock Rotates Every Season

Inventory varies from trader to trader — one may carry a limited quantity of a resource another doesn't stock at all — and all Port Traders restock at every in-game season change, roughly every 90 real-world minutes.

That matters if a specific material is running short across the map. Rather than riding between every port, wait for the season to turn and revisit the nearest one.

It's the same refresh cycle that rotates Gear Vendor weapons and armour.

Five Port Traders Hold the Balatro Cards

This one isn't signposted anywhere in-game. Five specific Port Traders sell tensho karuta cards — the Japanese deck derived from Portuguese playing cards — at 100 Mon each, and buying all five awards the Winning Hand Trinket and Amulet, a Legendary pair carrying a 20% chance to trigger a random Affliction on Combo Ender.

The five and where they are:

• Nine of Swords — the bay area of Sakai, Izumi Settsu.
• Horse of Swords — western Obama, Wakasa.
• Dragon of Swords — Miyazu Bay in northwestern Tamba, standing directly beside the Ornament Vendor.
• Maid of Swords — Shiotsu, on Lake Biwa's northern coast in Omi.
• King of Swords — Moth of Seta, Omi.

There's no formal quest attached and no tracker, so nothing tells you the set exists or that you're partway through it. 500 Mon total for a Legendary trinket and amulet is among the best value in the game — and both can take a secondary Engraving once your Forge reaches level 2.

The trader NPCs themselves use randomised skins and outfits, but the locations and the cards they carry never change.

The Four Vendor Types

Port Traders handle materials and resource selling.

Everything else splits between Gear Vendors for weapons, armour, and permanent Engravings, Ornament Vendors for Hideout decor, horses, and the Tea Bowls behind the Suture Self trophy, and Food Vendors for the 16 Local Dishes that raise your ration cap.

They share towns frequently but never share stock.