Nioh 3 - Locations
The maps and areas of Nioh 3. The base game moves between era maps (Warring States 1572 CE, Heian, Antiquity, Return to Edo, Bakumatsu, Final Battle of Edo and the Eternal Rift), while the Hell Rising expansion adds an eighth map set entirely in Edo in 1651, the Keian era, split into five connected...
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| Name | Type | Description | Region | Points Of Interest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Warring States (1572 CE) | Era Map | The base game's Sengoku-era overworld, the map the campaign opens on and the one with the densest spread of shrines. | Nioh 3 base game | Tenryu River Tokaido Hamamatsu Maisaka Lake Sanaru Lake Hamana Horie Castle and its Main Keep |
| Heian | Era Map | One of the base game's separate era maps, reached through the story's time travel rather than by walking from the Warring States fields. | Nioh 3 base game | Era-specific shrines and kodama Era-specific yokai population |
| Antiquity | Era Map | The furthest-back of the base game's era maps, a self-contained region with its own shrine, kodama and collectible set. | Nioh 3 base game | Era-specific shrines and kodama Era-specific yokai population |
| Return to Edo | Era Map | The base game's Edo map, a vertical castle-focused region rather than an open field. | Nioh 3 base game | Vertical castle traversal Syamitorro-governed spirit veins |
| Bakumatsu | Era Map | The late-Edo era map, the base game's other city-scale region outside the Warring States fields. | Nioh 3 base game | Shichijo Kasha encounter |
| Final Battle of Edo | Era Map | The base game's climactic Edo map, built around a vertical castle assault and tied to the Syamitorro spirit veins like the Return to Edo map. | Nioh 3 base game | Castle assault route Syamitorro-governed spirit veins |
| Eternal Rift | Era Map | The Rift-focused endgame map, the point where the game's extra-dimensional spirit realm becomes the setting rather than an overlay on a historical region. | Nioh 3 base game | Rift traversal Endgame encounters |
| Keian (1651 CE) | Expansion Map | Hell Rising's open map, set in Edo in 1651 during the Keian era. | Hell Rising expansion | 24 shrines across five districts 26 spirit veins Notes, a collectible type that does not exist in the base game Three Hell Rising sub missions |
| Edo Castle | District | The castle district that opens the Hell Rising map and the site of the expansion's mandatory first boss fight against Yagyu Jubei, found early at the Edo Castle Hirakawa Gate. | Keian (1651 CE) | Hirakawa Gate Yagyu Jubei, the expansion's opening boss Edo Castle Third Bailey Shrine |
| Kanda | District | One of the four districts that carry the bulk of the expansion's collectibles, with six shrines. | Keian (1651 CE) | Six shrines Kasha encounter |
| Koishikawa | District | The most shrine-dense district of the Hell Rising map, with seven shrines, and one of the four districts that together hold 13 of the map's 24 shrines. | Keian (1651 CE) | Seven shrines Spirit veins |
| Ueno | District | A smaller district of the Hell Rising map with two shrines, balancing the denser Koishikawa and Hongo Yushima. | Keian (1651 CE) | Two shrines Expansion yokai set |
| Hongo Yushima | District | The district with the largest share of the expansion's Notes, eight of them, and seven shrines. | Keian (1651 CE) | Eight Notes Seven shrines Hundred Demon Realms Picture Scroll pickups |
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