Sidequest

Play it here

Try the games. Right here.

On a quest the street hands you these. Four of them run in your browser, built from a tour and from The Field Test, the app's free demo hunt. The other hunts stay sealed.

Game 01 / Code

Lock box

A combination lock to open

The year the present Thunder Gate was built. The guide just told you.

STOP 2 / THUNDER GATE
Kaminarimon's history reaches back to the tenth century, but the gate in front of you is not that old. Fire destroyed earlier versions repeatedly. The present gate dates to 1960.
1960. It springs open.

Rebuilt with support from Konosuke Matsushita, the founder of Panasonic. In a quest, the street gives the number away.

From the tour Asakusa: Then & Now
Show the answer1960
Game 02 / Hangman

The city

A word to guess, letter by letter

Every quest in Sidequest so far is in one city. Which?

Misses 0 / 6

Tokyo

One street of it at a time.

From the app's game demo
HintThe capital.
Game 03 / Phone

Rin's phone

A phone to get into

Read the last conversation on Rin's phone. Four percent and falling.

You're in.

So where was she? That is the hunt. The rest of the thread waits in The Field Test.

From the app's game demo
Show the passcode1111
Game 04 / Lens

The old street

Another world, through the camera

Hold the lens up to the gate, then drag the line across it.

Kaminarimon, the Thunder Gate in Asakusa, today The same street in 1890, drawn with rickshaws 1890NOW
Asakusa, 1890

Rickshaws where the tour buses stop today.

From the tour Asakusa: Then & NowDrag all the way across

Coming soon

Your next sidequest starts at the first stop.

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