Eleven lights above a door are turned off (silver), and you need to activate them to make the Open button work. To the left of the door, there's a picture frame showing two numbered black rectangles, and you can turn it over to find an arrow. Below that, there's a safe with eight buttons in two rows (as if on skewers), and then there's a four-digit safe below that. To the left of all those, there's a cotton candy machine with some interesting stripes at the top and a four-color lock over its Start button. To the right of the door, there's a poster telling you to look for a haniwa (buried terracotta figure), with a number for the Button Museum beneath. Below the poster, there's a pet door too small to crawl through.

The shelf next to those objects has a variety of items. On the top shelf, there's a gingerbread man who wants to see some sugar rain, and is too scared of the cup of black coffee to let you push him aside. There's also some sort of stand with a button. On the next shelf, there's a button sitting in a bowl, but it gets sucked upwards towards a bottle when you try to click it. On the next shelf, there's a box with a four-kanji lock. Below that on the floor there's an empty green bin, but you can remove its base to find a button beneath.

Turn right to find a window with a helpful warning about the clear glass pane in it. You can open the doors and look through the glass to find the haniwa enjoying the sun next to an orange tree, but since that's out of reach, all you can get here is the button on the inside of the right door. On the wall to the left of the window, there's a clue with 12 above an A. To the right of it, there's a locked box whose door is clear enough to see several things through it, and you can push the button at its corner.

Turn right to find a picture frame covered by orange balloons. In a clear case tied tightly with rope, there's a red balloon with spikes. (Google Translate tells me the knot is "rattling", whatever that means). Push the button at the base of the case.

Flip the picture frame over again, and follow the arrow to find a secret.

Click (and hold) the empty space at the tip of an arrow, and another arrow appears!

So click the empty space at the end of that arrow, and you find a button.

Use the clue from the cotton candy machine and rectangle picture to unlock the eight-button safe.

The stripes at the top of the machine occur in eight groups. Counting the thick stripes as 5 and the thin stripes as 1, the groups have total values of
2 5 6 3
4 7 1 8.

So click the buttons in that order, and open the safe to find a knife.

Use the knife to cut the knot. The red balloon floats up, all the orange ones pop, and you can now see the clue behind.

So use the clue from the huge picture frame to unlock the blue four-digit safe.

The shapes on the picture come from the digits 6412.

So enter that in the safe and open it to find a key and a glass with chopsticks in it. The glass has a circle of twelve colored squares with a rotated A in the middle, and while you're on this screen, push the button at the top left.

Use the key on the keyhole of the locked box, and it opens to let you take a packet of granulated sugar that's sitting in front of a phone.

You've got a phone and you have a phone number. What is it?

Pick up the receiver and dial the museum's phone number (*32*-74##) from the poster.

A museum guy promptly arrives and carries away the haniwa, leaving a weird clue that you can read through the window.

Use the clue that you just saw out the window and the clues from the glass in the blue safe to unlock the cotton candy machine.

(Hint: That red's not red. The other red is red.)

If the squares on the safe were a clock with the apex of A pointing at 12 o'clock, then at 00:20:35 the hour, minute and second hands would point at the blue, orange and green squares.

Since the letter A is red, this means that the color code you need is blue, orange, green, red.

Click the buttons 2, 5, 4, 1 times to unlock the machine. Now it just needs one more thing before it can start.

Place the sugar in the cotton candy machine, and start it up.

Then gather the airborne sugar with the chopsticks. Now you have fluffy cotton candy on a stick!

Place the cotton candy on the stand, and it melts into the coffee. The gingerbread man moves over and is overwhelmed by the sweetness, so push the button he was sitting on.

Then look at the wall behind to find a clue that reads ㅗㅛ人中.

Use the clue you just found on the top shelf to unlock the box on the bottom shelf.

The symbols on the clue can be found in the 土皿火虫 characters.

So click the buttons 0, 2, 1, 4 times to open the box. Take the cork from it, then click the 2 buttons inside the box and under it on the left.

Go back to the second shelf and use the cork on the bottle. The button bounces back into the bowl where you can click it and get a congratulatory message.

The Complete message confirms that you have all the buttons. If you're missing any, here's a list:

Click the Open button to open the door and escape.

Wait, where's the aged temple? The game throws you right into a traditional room facing identical sliding doors. On the left are two weird sockets, but you recognize from previous games that they fit two magatama (comma-shaped crystal jewelry). At the top right is a long window that you can't possibly reach or fit in, and you can examine the lantern on the right but do nothing with it.

Turn left to find a painting of a moon and katana. On the right is a cupboard with four doors, the top pair locked and the bottom pair tied shut. The right corner is brightly lit with three lanterns, and the left corner less brightly with two. The round paper window there has a round hole next to it, and the table beneath has seven paper cranes in three different colors, as well as an odd safe with corner buttons decorated by a miniature lantern.

Turn left to find a cupboard with white doors, but as you zoom in you find holes where the handles are supposed to attach. The shelf in the middle has three kokeshi dolls, each with a red stripe along the bottom and a red eye. Next to them is a safe with a daruma-marked indentation and what appears to be two buttons that don't work. On the left, another shelf holds three subtly different spinning tops which are not actually spinning, as you can tell by their white markings. There's also a picture of an old temple (finally?) with four white semicircles on its edges.

Turn left to find a pair of locked white double doors, and a three-digit locked cupboard over a long box on a table which is also locked with three buttons that act like dials. On the left, there's also a shelf with four candle holders and one unlit candle, and a panel below that fastened by screws. Above all of these, there's a single 林 kanji on the wall next to the ceiling.

Use the clue from the paper cranes to unlock the three-digit cupboard.

There's exactly one red, five green and two yellow cranes on the table.

So enter 152 in the cupboard and open it to find six daruma dolls facing different directions, a box of matches and a three-button safe with the buttons showing different numbers of diamonds.

Use the clue from the tops to unlock the long box.

The tops with circular, triangular, square stems have lines pointing towards the ↓←↗ directions.

So click the buttons 4, 6, 1 times to open it and find a sword. Unfortunately, it's stuck in its sheath so you can't unleash your violent tendencies. The grip of the sword has a pattern of diamonds.

Use the clue from the sword grip to unlock the diamond box in the wall cupboard.

The sword grip shows groups of 4, 1, 3 diamonds.

So replicate the pattern in the safe by clicking the buttons 3, 0, 2 times. It opens up and you can take an unlit candle.

Use the clue from the lanterns around the room to unlock the box with the miniature lantern.

The lantern box has three working corner buttons and one that doesn't. The room has three corners with lanterns and one without.

Clockwise from the empty corner, the corners of the room have 2, 3, 1 lanterns. So the corners on the safe should have
3 1
2 0
lights, which means you should click them
2 0
1 - times.

The safe opens up and you can take the daruma doll with a rounded bottom.

Place the daruma doll in the safe that matches it (beside the kokeshi dolls on the shelf), and use the clue from the ones in the cupboard to unlock the safe.

The dolls in the cupboard face the LRRLRR directions, so click those buttons to open the safe and get a key.

Use the key to unlock the top cupboard doors. Inside, there's a map of the room with screws on the back. There's also a safe with six buttons over a red line, and each button can be clicked to turn it red.

Follow the map to find something useful.

Directly under the kokeshi shelf, you find a trapdoor in the floor with an unlit candle inside.

Use the clue from the kokeshi dolls to unlock the safe with six buttons.

The eyes on the dolls are black, red, black, red, red, black.

So click the 2nd, 4th and 5th buttons from the left, and the safe opens to let you take an unlit candle.

Place all three unlit candles on the shelf beside the other one, and light all four with the matches.

The panel above them opens up so you can take a shiny key.

Use this key to unlock the double doors.

On the left, there's a screwdriver hanging by a chain and a stack of cushions with misaligned flower symbols.

On the right, there's five plates of pink rice balls marked with decorative symbols (on the plates), and a four-color safe marked with a 和.

Use the map on the screwdriver to unscrew the compartment at its back. Inside, you find two handles.

So use the handles on the doors that are missing them, and open them to find a storeroom with a ladder and a safe with a clue that shows an arrow from a red flower to a blue one.

Use the clue from the cushions to unlock the flower box in the storeroom.

From blue to red (bottom to top), the cushions have flowers on their RDLDRU sides.

So click those buttons to find a single button labeled 和.

Place the character button in the round hole next to the paper window, and it fits sideways. As you push the button, colored dots appear on the window.

So use that clue to unlock the box with the matching character behind the double doors.

The dots are (in clockwise order) red, yellow, green,blue, with yellow and green next to the button.

So the colors on the box should be
Blue(1) Red(0)
Green(2) Yellow(3)

Click the buttons that many times, then unlock the safe and get a magatama bead.

Use the ladder to climb up to the window on the first screen, which perfectly frames the moon and has 火 written on its right wall.

Following the clue from the painting, you place the sword on the windowsill and wait.

The painting rises up to reveal four more unlit candles. You could light all of them, but they go out instantly.

Go back to the four candles you lit before, which have now burnt out. At the bottom of their candle holders, you find 四 一 二 三 kanji.

So use that clue to light the four paintings behind the candle in the correct order.

Your fantastic language skills let you recognize 一二三 as kanji for 123, which means that the other one is 4. So the correct order to light the candles is 4123.

So light the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 1st candles from the left, and a panel opens up so you can see a safe with three flowery buttons.

Use the clue from the plates to unlock this three-button safe.

The plates with 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 rice balls on them have patterns matching the LCRCR buttons on the safe.

So press those buttons to open the safe and get a magatama crystal.

Place both the magatama in the panel on the first screen to open the doors out into the old temple. As you click the doorway, the screen fades to white…

…and then the screen fades back in, this time with music!

In typical Riddle Escape fashion, the way out is blocked by a canal, and the mechanism to lower the bridge is missing three square pieces. You can lean over the left bank to see flowers flow past the bridge.

On the left, there's a rock with a small circular pool of water. The pool has a single leaf floating in it and eight light and dark pebbles around the outside. There's a wooden frame with two bells hanging from it, which looks like it has space for a third (and a locked compartment beneath them). There's also a shelf with decorated balls on several of its spots.

On the right, there's a cabinet whose lock has three striped buttons. Next to that, there's a safe with buttons that light up in flowers, and another safe that has animal patterns on its buttons. Above all of these, three of the lanterns have white stripes on them.

Use the clue from the striped lanterns to unlock the cabinet beneath.

The lanterns have 5, 3, 2 stripes, so click the buttons 4, 2, 1 times to open the cabinet.

Inside, there are three lanterns with animal symbols, a safe with buttons that show the decorated balls, and a single character 風 on the back.

Use the clue from the bridge to unlock the flower safe.

The flowers flow past in the order top, bottom, top, center, bottom, center (with top being the farthest away), so click the corresponding buttons on the safe to open it and get a bell.

Use the clue from the lanterns in the cabinet to unlock the animal safe.

The stripes on the legs of the bird, cat, fish lanterns are at the bottom, top, middle.

So make the buttons on the safe (from top to bottom) display cat, fish, bird by clicking them 1, 0, 2 times.

The safe opens so you can get a pair of pliers.

Use the clue from the shelf of balls to unlock the matching safe in the cabinet.

From top to bottom, the compartments which change between rows are the LRLCL boxes.

So click those buttons to open the safe and find a red X! Actually, it's a transparent plastic sheet with the X marked on it. The sheet also has semicircular cutouts in its sides.

Go back in and use the pliers on the lower cupboard doors.

Then open them to find three dice in notched plates and a framed clue telling you to unfold a red paper crane.

Also use the pliers to free the screwdriver from its chains behind the white double doors.

Use the screwdriver to unscrew the panel beneath the burnt out candles (to the left of the long box).

Behind, there's a framed clue with several yin-yang symbols, and a safe with dotty buttons in notched chrome frames.

Use the clue from the dice plates to unlock the dotty safe.

The frames (from left to right) correspond to the RCL plates which have dice showing 2, 6, 3 dots.

So click the buttons 1, 5, 2 times, and the safe opens so you can get a flowery square panel.

Pick up the red origami crane from the table, and unfold it to a note with several yin-yang symbols.

Use the sheet on the temple picture (on the shelf with tops), pointing out a secret spot.

Go back outside, and use the clue from the temple picture to find the hidden item.

Click the lower-left corner of the pathway, and open up a trapdoor there to find a square panel and the character 山.

Place the bell you have on the frame beside the other two, and use the yin-yang clues to ring the bells in order.

The groups of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 yin-yang symbols occur in the LRLCRC columns of their clues.

So ring the bells in that order and the compartment opens up to let you take a square panel.

Place all three square panels in the bridge mechanism, which lowers the bridge.

Now you can walk across to the locked double doors, but the combination lock is missing its button. On the left is a three-button safe with buttons that flash a grid pattern, and on the right are three red lamps, the middle one having a white button, a black button and a clue with a leaf.

Use the clue from the pebble pool to unlock the lanterns.

In counterclockwise order from the leaf, the pebbles are WBWBBWBW in color.

So click the LRLRRLRL buttons, and the lamps light up to show you a code.

Use the clue from the lamps to unlock the box to the left of the door.

The lanterns light up in the LLLRRRC order, so click those buttons on the box to open it and find the missing button.

Place the button on the door, and the four buttons light up with abstract symbols.

So use the remaining clues from the game to unlock the door.

The 風林火山 kanji mean Wind, Forest, Fire, Mountain, and they occur in the cabinet, the ceiling, the window and the trapdoor. So from top to bottom, the kanji occur in the 林 火 風 山 order.

Make the buttons on the cabinet show Forest, Fire, Wind, Mountain by clicking them 1, 2, 0, 3 times.

Then push the button to unlock the door and escape! (With a new and splendid Congratulation screen.)

You can mute the music in the menu (and only a few sound effects are left). The Pause button saves and quits.

There is no interface to examine items; you can combine two items by clicking on them in order. If you pick up too many items, you can scroll the inventory to reach the other 10 slots, and you can click an item and then an empty spot to move it there.

You will eventually get the ability to fast-travel. Don't forget to use it.

You find yourself in a broken-down entrance hall. Glowing purple dots on the screen can't be picked up. So keep travelling (RRRUR) until you reach a darkened library, where a sacred jar rests on a shelf along the right wall. This gives you a purple bar on the display which you can click to check on your orbs.

Spiral stairs map:
_Be___
_C3_Xb
_S2_Li ◄ you are here
<S1>__

Pick up 4 orbs from the library, then go left to the stairs and pick up 4 orbs there. (Note the four-button panel on the left wall.) Go up to a corridor with 3 orbs and a flashlight on one of the windowsills. Note that the right door there is locked and needs a blue key. From the corridor, go straight to a large empty room with beds, a green evil spirit and 2 orbs. Then go back to the bottom of the stairwell, pick up 4 orbs including the one along the bottom stair, and notice the screwed panel along the stairs.

Go right to the east wing. Here's another mini map:
______Ce
______Al
Hw_Co_Ch
↓↓

You enter the hallway on the left with 4 orbs and a green eye of darkness. Move right into a small corner with 4 orbs, then move right again into the chapel and collect 3 orbs. Move forward to the altar and collect 4 orbs, then talk to the specter that pops up and click the left item to buy the map. Check the small piano on the left for a clue (which you can record down with the handy Notes box on your map). As you look up towards the ceiling, you find a purple eye that emanates darkness (and no orbs).

You don't need to collect every single orb, but if you did you should now have 22 orbs.

Go back to the stairs marked G on the map, and pick up 3 orbs. The escape path is south of here but the skull doors require a key.

Go upstairs, picking up 3 orbs, and make a note of the colored clue on the pillar. Then go forward/upward to a corridor with four orbs and a chair with a note on a clipboard which you can tilt to read. The path forward is blocked by a door requiring a gold key.

Now that you have 33 orbs, walk all the way back to the altar (orb shop) and buy the last item, a crystal ball. Now you can click on the map to fast travel! (No need to select the ball first.)

Use it immediately to teleport to W, a sunlit piano room with four orbs (two on the curtains and two on the floor) and then to H, a corridor with 4 orbs, a red bell out of reach and a button panel.

The last area you can access is through the entrance on the first screen (F, 4 orbs). As you walk out into the cloudy sky (E, 4 orbs), you notice a ladder leaning on the right greenhouse. Move forward (N, 3 orbs) to a path blocked in front by a futuristic door requiring a purple key. To the left (M, 4 orbs) is a tree next to a greenhouse that has a screwdriver on a ledge (left side of screen), and to the right (O, no orbs) is a warning sign with a clearly fake phone number at the bottom.

(Orb count: 26, I think.)

Use the ladder on the bell (room H), and pick up the purple key from it.

Then use it to unlock the door at the greenhouses (up from room N).

You end up in a greenhouse (U, 4 orbs) with a pot of dirt on the left. Moving forward (AA, 3 orbs), you find a room with rattling pipes, a four-digit safe and a bottle of lighter fluid at the lower left corner.

Use the clue from the warning sign (O) to unlock the four-digit safe (AA).

The last four digits of the sign are 3839, so enter that in the safe and open it to find a pair of batteries.

Go to the base of the spiral stairs (room I), and use the screwdriver on the wall panel to find a green key.

Then move right (room J) and down, and use the green key to unlock the door.

You're in some sort of clinic (room C) where there are five orbs. The wreath on the wall has four roses, and you can remove the bottom one to find a blue key beneath.

Move right to a laundry area (D, 4 orbs) where a stinking rag sits in a washing machine. Then move left twice (B, 4 orbs) where a silver spoon sits next to some pill tubes. Notice the button panel on the wall.

Move left again to a room (A) overcome with darkness in which four orbs shine brightly.

Place the batteries in the flashlight, then use it to light up room A and find a gold key on the floor.

Use that key to unlock the door (north of V) to get to a room (AB, 2 orbs) with a button panel and a locked chest with a nine-button grid and three lights.

Use the spoon to dig up the dirt (U) and get a silver key.

Then use it to unlock its door (right of P) and find a bathroom (Q, 4 orbs) with an interesting skull on the wall and a lighter on the sink.

Use the lighter on the candle (G), and a red gem shows up.

Go to X and use the blue key to unlock the door on the right. It opens into a room (Y, 3 orbs) with heavy equipment and a safe in the far corner. The right door has glowing blue letters on it.

Use the clue from the corridor chair (V) to unlock the combination safe (Y).

The chair clue reads 11-21-7.

So turn the dial left (counterclockwise, repeatedly) to 11, then right to 21, then left to 7. (If you mess up, back out and try again.)

Open the safe and take the red gem inside.

Now that you've visited every room (from A to AC), you should have 59 orbs left over, so spend 40 of them at the Orb Shop for a sacred dagger and a light bow and arrow.

Use the clue from the blue letters (Y) to unlock the chest (AB).

Spell T, X, L in the grid (just like on the door) in order, clicking the bottom button after each letter.

The chest opens and you can take a red gem.

Go back to the piano room (W) and use the other piano clue from (T) to unlock it.

The digits 1-9 on the smaller piano appear on the AFCDFBFGE keys.

So press those keys on the large piano, and a red gem appears on its keys.

Use the clue from the colored panel at P to set the four-button panels.

Each of the H, B, R, AB panels only has one working button: the UL, UR, LL, LR button.

So make them red, green, blue, yellow by clicking them 4, 2, 1, 3 times.

Then return back to P to take the purple magic wand.

You now have three magic weapons, so use them to defeat evil.

Firstly, use the dagger on the spirit at AC, and he drops a red gem.
Then, use the bow and arrow on the eye at Z, and it drops a red gem (at T).
Then use the magic wand on the eye at J, and it drops a red gem.

Of course, this blows up the eyes so that the darkness clears.

You now have all seven gems, so place them in the sockets at A, F, K, S, T, V, AA.

Then go back to the skull at Q, and pull a skull key out of its mouth.

Use it on the exit door (at G) to escape!

If you have the map (and jar) but are missing something, here's where to find them.

Flashlight: X
Orb Shop (dagger, bow and arrow, crystal ball): T
Ladder: E
Screwdriver: M
Purple key: H
Lighter fluid (optional): AA
Batteries: AA
Green key: I
Blue key: C
Spoon: B
Gold key:
Silver key: U
Lighter: Q
Magic Wand: P
Red gems: G, J, T, W, Y, AB, AC
Sockets: A, F, K, S, T, V, AA