Getting rewarded for cleaning up trash is nothing new in the Like a Dragon games - one of the first minigames you were introduced to was Can Quest in Yakuza: Like a Dragon, after all. A new venue calls for a new minigame, and in Hawaii you’ll find that The Recycling Center rewards your anti-litterbug inclinations. This page will cover how to find and unlock The Recycling Center, how to farm trash, and what rewards you’ll get for exchanging trash.
On the eastern end of Aloha Beach you’ll find a woman named Yoko, who has a trashy task for you.
The Recycling Center - Trash Points and Rewards¶
To start this minigame, you’ll need to head down to the eastern end of Aloha Beach. This can be done as early as Chapter 3, after you fight your way into Revolve and the following morning complete the obligatory Substory 5 - Welcome to Hawaii MFer!, although heading down there with just Ichiban and Kiryu is arguably not the best time to start farming trash (waiting until Chapter 5 will make things easier). In any event, you’ll want to head southwest of the Aloha Seaside restaurant to find a blonde “woman in bikini” named Yoko. She’ll greet you automatically if you get close, and don’t worry - she’s not going to assault your earholes or break up the most popular band in the world. Instead, she wants you to collect trash and bring it to her. Don’t judge, she has her reasons, and more importantly she’s willing to reward you for doing the ethical thing you were already doing anyways. Simply put, collect trash, return it to Yoko, get points, trade points for useful things - the points you’ll get varies depending on the trash you collect, as follows:
| Trash | Points |
|---|---|
| Cans | 10 |
| Plastic Bottles | 30 |
| Magazines | 50 |
| Glass Bottles | 100 |
(1 of 2) Bring Yoko any trash you find and she’ll give you points,
Bring Yoko any trash you find and she’ll give you points, (left), which can be redeemed for various rewards, including damage-boosting accessories, Job Rank manuals and high-end crafting materials. (right)
Not sure why glass bottles are worth so much when plastic bottles are so much worse for the environment, but that’s not really a debate worth having. Any who, here are the rewards you can exchange your trashy points for:
| Reward | Points Cost | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Fire God’s Ikaika | 1,400 | Greatly boosts the damage of fire attacks. |
| Water God’s Ikaika | 1,400 | Greatly boosts the damage of water attacks. |
| Lightning God’s Ikaika | 1,400 | Greatly boosts the damage of electric attacks. |
| Fist God’s Ikaika | 1,400 | Greatly boosts the damage of blunt attacks. |
| Sword God’s Ikaika | 1,400 | Greatly boosts the damage of blade attacks. |
| Bow God’s Ikaika | 1,400 | Greatly boosts the damage of gun attacks. |
| Land of the Freelancer | 1,200 | Technical manual that increases your job rank as a Freelancer by 1. |
| Embracing Elitism | 1,200 | Technical manual that increases your job rank as a Heiress by 1. |
| You Got It, Maid | 1,200 | Technical manual that increases your job rank as a Housekeeper by 1. |
| One with Mother Nature | 1,200 | Technical manual that increases your job rank as a Geodancer by 1. |
| Bodacious Boarding | 1,200 | Technical manual that increases your job rank as an Aquanaut by 1. |
| Pyro Dance with Me | 1,200 | Technical manual that increases your job rank as a Pyronaut by 1. |
| Iron Mentality | 1,000 | Reading this American comic could improve your Confidence. |
| Heartful Golem | 1,000 | Reading this American comic could improve your Kindness. |
| Vinyl Chair Blueprints | 300 | Blueprints that will allow you to make furniture with DIY on Dondoko Island. |
| Recycling Bin Blueprints | 300 | Blueprints that will allow you to make trash cans with DIY on Dondoko Island. |
| Puyo Puyo Soundtrack CD 1 | 100 | CD featuring the track “Ultimate Legends of the Untrained Demon King” from the game Puyo Puyo. |
| Puyo Puyo Soundtrack CD 2 | 100 | CD featuring the track “A Long-Awaited Spacetime Journey!” from the game Puyo Puyo. |
| Shark Fin | 1,000 | Material that can be used to create weapons. |
| Squid Tentacles | 1,000 | Material that can be used to create weapons. |
Damage-boosting accessories, books that increase your Job Rank for various jobs, a few [Personality Trait] boosting books and high-end crafting materials… there’s a lot to like here if you’ve got the patience to collect enough trash. Speaking of that…
(1 of 3) You can find trash in mounds of sand on the beach,
How to Farm Trash - Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth¶
Trash plagues the beaches of Hawaii, and you can turn this sad fact of parasitical human overconsumption to your advantage by picking it up and delivering it to Yoko for points. You can’t target what kind of trash you’ll find - RNG rules the day here, too - so you’ll need to take a more generalist approach to farming trash. Fortunately, you don’t have to go far to start farming, as there are two prime sources of trash nearby.
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Mounds of Sand: Littering the beach are mounds of sand. These don’t appear promising, and you aren’t given a prompt to interact with them when you approach, but if you run over them you’ll dislodge the sand and reveal a shiny, which will very often be a random piece of trash (or seaweed). The developers saw fit to have mercy on you, as you can simply sprint down the beach, run over mounds of sand while mashing
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to quickly pick up trash on the go. Just be wary, as some mounds of sand are actually Sand Bagger enemies.
(1 of 3) If you prefer surf over turf, head into the water to find golden rings, which indicate diving spots.
- Dive Spots: If you’d rather get your everything wet, you can also just run into the ocean and swim around. It shouldn’t be long before you spot golden glowing rings in the water, which indicate dive spots. Just swim over and dive when prompted and you’ll shortly surface with some item or another - hopefully trash, but RNG gonna RNG. You don’t have to worry about enemies via this approach, but you can’t farm diving spots on the run, and you do have to be wary of nearby boats. They’re not swimmer friendly and if they doink Ichiban you’ll sustain 50 damage.
Whether sprinting or swimming, scour the coast for mounds of sand or diving spots, respectively, and you’ll accumulate a steady influx of trash. If you wait until you’re strong enough to Smackdown the Sand Baggers, this will be an even easier process, and while it can be tedious, getting the odd crafting component or damaging accessory can pay off.
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