Minamino
One chest on record here · 4 landmarks both sources agree on · 20 mascots
Region facts below are second-hand, sourced inline. Never re-checked in game. Why that matters.
The one chest set in Minamino
Minamino is the best-corroborated hunt we have that we did not verify ourselves. Game8 puts the Series 1 Autumn chest next to the top middle hole of the golf course; a Japanese write-up of the same autumn event describes the spot as where you can see the golf flag. Two languages, two outlets, one green. The catch is that the landmark lists call the course Naruo Golf Course, while the hunt was written up as the Minamino Golf Course — probably the same place named two ways, but we have not confirmed that.
Series 1 Autumn — Next to the top middle hole of the Minamino Golf Course.
Relayed from its sources; not re-checked by us. Full entry and sources
Farmland, and one golf course
Rural, with a golf course and technical winding roads.
VGC calls Minamino a smaller, mostly rural region, and flags that it is easy to miss the collectibles at the very top and very bottom of it.
Gamereactor reports that the final Point of Interest in Minamino appears to be bugged — their map showed all 74 of Japan’s POIs unlocked and this one still would not register.
4 named places both lists put in Minamino
- Naruo Golf Course
- Shirakawa-go
- Cedar Avenue
- Inakadate Tanbo Rice Art
Game8 also lists Ruriko-ji Temple in Minamino. mapmaster.io puts Ruriko-ji Temple in Ohtani. Only one of them can be right and we do not know which.
20 mascots and a Nissan PAO
20 mascots, themed on Edamame, out of 200 across the map. One barn find: the Nissan PAO, behind the Blue Stamp.
Game8 — mascot checklist · Game8 — barn finds · VGC — mascot guide
Minamino is 南野地域 in a Japanese client
南野地域は、農村風景が広がる内陸エリア。
Two sources, and Japanese search suggests it alongside 宝探し. 地域一覧.
Asked about Minamino
Is the golf course chest still there?
No. Treasure Hunt chests exist for the week they are set and then the Playlist rolls over. The Series 1 Autumn entry is a record of where it was, not a place to drive to now.
How confident are you about that location?
More than most of our unverified entries. Game8 gives the hole, and a Japanese source covering the same autumn hunt independently describes it by the visible golf flag. We still have not run it ourselves, so the entry says "sourced only".
Is the bugged Point of Interest a problem for hunting?
It should not be — a Point of Interest and a Treasure Hunt chest are separate systems. It is worth knowing about only because a region where one collectible refuses to register is a region where people will assume the next one is broken too.
Two temples and a chest we nearly trust
Ohtani
Where mapmaster.io thinks Ruriko-ji Temple actually is — and the other region where a hunt landed on a named landmark rather than open ground.
Hokubu
The same story with the verification finished: a chest beside a named landmark, corroborated in Japanese as well as English, except that one we went back and re-checked.
Nangan
The other small rural region, and the one that shows how little a four-landmark region gives you to work from when the chest is not next to one of them.
Chest not showing up?
This is the region with a Point of Interest that Gamereactor could not get to register. If something here will not tick off, it is worth knowing which system it belongs to.