Nioh 3: Valuable Locations & Interactive Tracking Guide

Open the wrong chest in Nioh 3, and you'll find a Mujina sitting inside it. These Mimic Chests — one of three types of Valuable tracked in this guide — are scattered throughout every era alongside standard Small Chests and Large Chests, and their contents are locked behind a Mujina fight rather than a simple animation. Know the difference before you approach.


With 200+ Valuable chest locations pinned across all six maps at the Nioh 3 guide hub, MapMaster is the only interactive resource tracking all chest types alongside their specific access routes.


Not Required for Trophies — But Worth Collecting


Valuables don't unlock any trophy or achievement. You can earn the Platinum without opening a single one.


That said, Large Chests are the densest single source of weapons, armour, consumables, and crafting materials outside of boss drops — skipping them entirely means missing a significant chunk of gear.


Small Chests hold more modest items but contribute to your regional Exploration Level. Mimic Chests are the exception: their contents are often worth the Mujina fight, but walking in blind puts you at a disadvantage.


Three Types of Valuable: Small, Large, and Mimic


  • Small Chests are the most common — usually on porches, inside buildings, on top of wooden platforms, and tucked into alcoves. Contents vary: consumables, materials, ammunition, and occasional minor equipment. Worth looting on every pass through an area.


  • Large Chests are less common and more rewarding. They often hold Smithing Texts, Secret Skills Texts, Samurai's/Ninja's Locks, or high-quality equipment. Several are sealed — either by an Enemy Base that must be cleared first, or by a lock requiring a specific Key. The Tenryu River temple chest requires the Bloody Iron Key from the bandit leader. The Mikatagahara Enemy Base chest doesn't open until the base is cleared. Every seal condition is noted in the pin.


  • Mimic Chests (Mujina) look like any other chest until you open them. A Mujina Yokai springs out immediately — defeat it before you can collect the contents. They appear in locations where a regular chest would seem out of place: a mountain alcove next to empty chests, a podium in a large entertainment room, a locked house accessed through the roof.


Five Access Patterns Worth Knowing


Most chests are straightforward. About a third aren't — and these five patterns cover nearly all the access challenges you'll encounter:


  • Enemy Base seals lock Large Chests until every enemy in the base is defeated. The seal on the Mikatagahara base chest, the Lake Sanaru ship cabin chest, the Sagano hill chest, and dozens more all lift automatically once the base is clear.


  • Locked houses require creative entry — climbing to an upper floor of an adjacent building and jumping through a window, dropping through a hole in the roof, or crawling through a gap in the wall. The Hamamatsu locked house chest requires climbing the western house roof, walking along the lower roof at the back, and jumping through the window. The Iinoya Enemy Base leader's house chest requires dropping through the roof hole after climbing hay bales on the adjacent property.


  • Spirit Vein gates put chests on ledges, islands, and elevated platforms only accessible after activating a specific Spirit Vein. Several Warring States Large Chests require Guardian Spirits obtained in Heian.


  • Nurikabe walls guard a small number of chests — the Warring States building behind a Nurikabe wall, and the Iinoya shack guarded by a Nurikabe. Defeat or gesture at the wall before collecting.


  • Lesser Crucible clears gate certain Large Chests in Bakumatsu — notably the Shirakawa temple porch chest, which only becomes accessible after completing the Shirakawa Lesser Crucible.


All Valuable Locations


200+ chest locations across every map, all with access instructions and chest type flags. The most complex routing is in Warring States — particularly Hamamatsu Castle and the Tenryu River area — so start there. Full coverage by the map:


  • Warring States area map — the densest era, with chests in Hamamatsu, Tenryu River, Tokaido, Maisaka, Haunting Caves, Lake Sanaru, Futamata, Iinoya, Mikatagahara, and Hamamatsu Hill.
  • Heian interactive map — second densest, covering Mount Kurama, Kamo Village, Funaokayama, Rokuhara, Hachijo, Nishiichi, Sagano, and Matsuo-taisha.
  • Antiquity map guide — smaller map, three chests including a Nuppeppo-guarded Large Chest and a wall-climb Chest.
  • Bakumatsu area map — large set spanning Shimabara, Shichijo, Sanjo, Shijo, Mibu, Nijo Castle, Gion, Kiyomizu, Shirakawa, and Kyoto Imperial Palace, including several cannon-mechanic and paper-panel chests.
  • Final Battle of Edo map guide — endgame chests across Edo Castle, including a corridor chest guarded by a Ninja Yokai.
  • Return to Edo has no Valuable Chests.
Name Details
Small ChestWarring States - 1572 CE

Found inside the house.

Small ChestHeian - 1190 CE

Found inside the building.

Mimic ChestHeian - 1190 CE

Found inside the house.

Small ChestHeian - 1190 CE

Found on the scaffolding.

Large ChestHeian - 1190 CE

Found inside the shrine guarded by Mikoshi Nyudo.

Small ChestHeian - 1190 CE

Found by the stairs of the small shrine in the courtyard. Look for it on the right side.

Small ChestHeian - 1190 CE

Found inside the house.

Large ChestHeian - 1190 CE

Found in the house on the hill. You can reach it by jumping from the roof of the southeastern house.

Small ChestHeian - 1190 CE

Found in the covered area by the hot spring.

Large ChestHeian - 1190 CE

Found inside the house, where you must fight the Flying Bolt.

Large ChestHeian - 1190 CE

Found on the ground floor of the large wooden building, you'll get to visit to melt the ice crystals and reach the third Bodhisattva Statue.

Small ChestWarring States - 1572 CE

Found by the wall inside the house behind the Nurikabe.

Small ChestHeian - 1190 CE

Found by the railing in the upper pavilion.

Mimic ChestHeian - 1190 CE

Found inside the building guarded by the Enki.

Small ChestHeian - 1190 CE

Found inside the house.

Small ChestHeian - 1190 CE

Found under the Gojo Bridge, past the roof and the two crab-like Yokai.

Small ChestHeian - 1190 CE

Found in the lower area of the broken bridge.

Small ChestHeian - 1190 CE

Found inside the house by the locked gate.

Small ChestHeian - 1190 CE

Found inside the building.

Small ChestHeian - 1190 CE

Found in the side cave you can use to avoid the attacks of the large crow.

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