Assassin’s Creed: Shadowstakes a novel approach to completing quests. Instead of having your hand held by showing you where you need to go, the game takes a backseat for the most part. Now, you may have to explore things on your own, which, in turn, might make the whole experience of Assassin’s Creed: Shadows a lot more immersive.

A good example of this is searching for Tea Bowls for the Rikyu questline. Since the bowls are spread out and with little knowledge of where they are, this walkthrough may be able to speed things up.

Assasssin’s Creed Shadow Naoe riding here horse with citizens looking at her. There’s a buildings around.

How To Start Tea Bowls For Rikyu Quest

This mission triggers after you’ve done theTea Ceremony quest line and killedThe Golden Teppo(Wakasa), who is part of the Onryo group.

Once you’ve done this mission, you cango back to talk to Sen no Rikyu(the NPC who started the Tea Ceremony quest). However, he’s notin the same place where you met him the first time, which was Sakai. Instead, he’ll be inYamashiro, which is located just northwest of Sakai and Osaka, across the Izumi Coast.

Assassin’s Creed Shadows Naoe on a Viewpoint with forested hills infront of her.

When you reach Yamashiro,make your way to Kyoto. It’s the biggest city in the region and hard to miss.

In Kyoto,head to the Imperial Temple, and thengo west from it. Sen no Rikyu’s home will be near thenorthwest corner across from the temple. You’ll know you’re in the right spot when you see ablue marker nearby.

Assassin’s Creed Shadows Ornament Vendor that sells the bowl is selected on an over head map of Kyoto.

If you’re having trouble locating him when you reach the area mentioned above,send out scouts. They can help you narrow down where his home is.

As you talk to him, he’ll instruct you tofind seven Tea Bowls. The game doesn’t give you any clear way of finding the bowls, which might make the search a little more challenging.

Assassin’s Creed Shadows an over head map of Sakai with the Ornament Vendor selected.

How To Find All The Tea Bowls

Locating most of these Tea Bowls is rather easy when you know where they are. Instead of looting guards or stealing the bowls,you’ll be buying mostof them. So make sure youhave enough Monto buy each bowl.

Most of the Tea Bowlscost 125 Mon, which should be affordable in the early sections of the game.

Assassin’s Creed Shadows the Ornament Vendor in Azuchi selected.

The vendors that sell theseare the Ornament Vendors. They are littered throughout Japan. But, for the Tea Bowls, you’ll have to buy themfrom specific vendors.

As mentioned, there are a total of seven. Below, you can find the exact spot plus the region they’re in.

Assassin’s Creed Shadows the vendor selected in Sakamoto.

Bowl 1 - Rustic Tea Bowl Collection - Yamashiro

For the first tea bowl,you’ll be staying in Kyoto. Make your way to thesouth of the region till you reach Honnoji Temple. Once there, continue goingdirectly south from the temple.

The road thatconnects the temple to the main citywill have the Ornament Vendor that sells the Rustic Tea Bowl.

Assassin’s Creed Shadows Ornament Vendor selected in Obama.

Bowl 2 - Intricate Tea Bowl Collection - Izumi Settsu

The vendor holding this Tea Bowlcan be found in Sakai,right next to the Port of Sakai. This should also be the first Ornament Vendor you unlock since Sakai is the first city you reach.

While searching for these Tea Bowls, it would be a good idea tonab all the viewpoints along the way. Since Japan is so massive, these fast travel points can help you go back and forth between areas when searching for the bowls.

Assassin’s Creed Shadows Ornament Vendor NPC selected in Kameyama.

Bowl 3 - Sophisticated Tea Bowl Collection - Omi

The third Tea Bowl is in Omi, which isnortheast of Sakai and east of Yamashiro. When you’ve reached the region,head eastward to make it to Azuchi. However, the vendor with the bowl will be in thearea just before the main city. They should be locatednorth of Shingu Shrine.

Bowl 4 - Unique Tea Bowl Collection - Omi

East of Azuchi and across Lake Biwa, you’ll find a smalltown called Sakamoto. The vendor is thenorthern part of the Sake Brewery, right alongside the water.

Bowl 5 - Elegant Tea Bowl Collection - Wasaka

Locating this Tea Bowl will require you to travel all the waynorth to Waska. The first town youhit is Obama. When you’re inside the city walls,head northeast, and you’ll end up inKara Market.The vendor should be inone of the houses on the right.

Bowl 6 - Simple Tea Bowl Collection - Tamba

This bowl is much easier to find than the past three. Start by navigating toKameyama, which is thesoutheast part of the Tamba regionandwest of Yamarhiro.

Upon entering the city,head south to Kameyama Castleand keep going south from the castle. The vendor with the Tea Bowl should be in thesouthernmost region beside Sennenji Temple.

Assassin’s Creed Shadows All memeber of the Onryo revealed. The Wise character is selected with information card next to him.

Bowl 7 - Classic Tea Bowl Collection

To find the last bowl,you’ll have to keep playing through the gameuntilThe Wisemember of the Onryo group is available. When you assassinate him, you’ll earn thefinal Tea Bowl along with the rewards that comewith killing The Wise.

Once you’re done and have got all the Tea Bowls, goback to Sen no Rikyuto hand in the quest. You should get about1,000 Experience Pointsupon completion.