| Starts | First Day, 10:00 AM, Mayor’s Residence (Madame Aroma) |
|---|---|
| Ends | Final Day, about 4:30 AM, the staff room of the Stock Pot Inn |
| Needs | Ocarina of Time and the Song of Soaring with the Ikana Canyon owl statue woken (or Epona, Garo’s Mask and the Hookshot for the long way round); Romani’s Mask to enter the Milk Bar; the Stone Mask helps you stay unseen at the hideout |
| Rewards |  Couple’s Mask (then a Piece of Heart from the Mayor), Kafei’s Mask, Keaton Mask, plus Postman’s Hat (and a Piece of Heart from the first mailbox) or a bottle of Chateau Romani |
| Hard deadlines | Mail the letter before 6:00 AM on the Second Day; give Anju the Pendant by noon on the Final Day (the Second Day, from the late afternoon, is safest); reach Sakon’s Hideout before 7:00 PM on the Final Day |
| Must not do | Do not stop the thief Sakon in North Clock Town on the First Night (the Blast Mask) in this cycle, and do not hand your Letter to Kafei to anyone else |
| Cycles | One cycle, but you must hit every time, or start again at the dawn of the First Day |
Anju and Kafei’s quest is a single chain across all three days: get Kafei’s Mask from his mother, win Anju’s trust, carry a letter to Kafei, bring his Pendant of Memories back to her, retrieve his stolen Sun’s Mask from the thief Sakon, and be in the Stock Pot Inn when they finally meet around 4:30 AM on the Final Day. You receive the Couple’s Mask for witnessing it, plus Kafei’s Mask along the way, and the Couple’s Mask later buys you a Piece of Heart from the Mayor.
Plan the whole cycle before you begin. Reach Clock Town at the dawn of the First Day with Romani’s Mask, the Song of Soaring and an owl statue woken in Ikana Canyon already in hand, because the Final Day is crowded. Leave Sakon alone on the First Night: if you chase him down and win back the Old Lady’s bag you get the Blast Mask, but that changes Sakon’s schedule: Kafei no longer sees him on the Final Day, so the quest cannot be finished in that cycle. Take the Blast Mask on a different cycle. The Song of Double Time is handy for skipping the dull stretches (for example from the afternoon of the First Day to the evening), and the Inverted Song of Time slows the clock if the Final Day gets tight.
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Timeline at a Glance
| Day and time | Where | What you do |
|---|---|---|
| First Day, from 10:00 AM | Mayor’s Residence | Agree to Madame Aroma’s request and take Kafei’s Mask (do it before mid afternoon) |
| First Day, from about 2:00 PM | Stock Pot Inn | The Postman hands Anju a letter and then leaves |
| First Day afternoon, before the Goron arrives | Stock Pot Inn | Optional: tell Anju you have a booking to get the Room Key (no mask on) |
| First Day, once the Postman has gone, until evening | Stock Pot Inn | Wear Kafei’s Mask and speak to Anju; she sets the 11:30 PM meeting |
| First Night, 11:30 PM | Stock Pot Inn kitchen | Receive the Letter to Kafei |
| Before 6:00 AM, Second Day | Any Clock Town mailbox | Mail the letter |
| Second Day, about 3:00 PM | Laundry Pool | The Postman arrives, rings the bell and delivers it to the masked boy |
| Second Day, mid afternoon | Laundry Pool, back door | Slip through the door the boy used and wait inside |
| Second Day, from about 4:10 PM | Kafei’s hiding place | Speak to Kafei and take the Pendant of Memories |
| Second Day, from the late afternoon, or Final Day before noon | Stock Pot Inn | Give Anju the Pendant of Memories |
| Final Day, from 1:00 PM | Curiosity Shop back room | Receive the Keaton Mask and the Special Delivery to Mama |
| Final Day, before 7:00 PM | Ikana Canyon, rocks by Sakon’s Hideout | Hide behind the rocks with Kafei until Sakon opens the door |
| Final Day, 7:00 PM | Sakon’s Hideout, Ikana Canyon | The door opens; follow Kafei in and win back the Sun’s Mask |
| Final Day, from 6:00 PM | Post Office or Milk Bar | Deliver the Special Delivery to Mama (either before or after the hideout) |
| Final Night | Stock Pot Inn staff room | Go upstairs and wait for the reunion |
| Final Night, about 4:30 AM | Stock Pot Inn staff room | Witness the reunion and receive the Couple’s Mask |
First Day: Meet the Couple
Take Kafei’s Mask from Madame Aroma
Go to the Mayor’s Residence in East Clock Town at 10:00 AM or later and talk to Madame Aroma in the room through the door on the right of the entrance hall. She mistakes you for the expert person-finder she hired and explains that her son Kafei vanished about a month ago, and that she cannot eat for worry. Say you will look for him and she gives you Kafei’s Mask, which you wear when you speak to people about him. The mask is available from 10:00 AM on the First or Second Day (take it before about 3:00 PM to be safe), but do it on the First Day, because you need the mask in hand for Anju’s conversation that same afternoon.
While you are in the residence, read Kafei’s diary: it tells you he made a wedding mask and that he and Anju were about to be married. With his mask in hand you can wear it whenever you ask townspeople about him, but the conversation that really matters with the mask on is the one with Anju.
Speak to Anju at the Stock Pot Inn
In the afternoon, walk into the Stock Pot Inn in East Clock Town and talk to Anju at the front desk while wearing Kafei’s Mask. Wait until the Postman has left first: he hands Anju a letter a little after 2:00 PM and walks out again, and the mask only works once he is gone. She tells you she is waiting for Kafei and has a secret she wants to share, and she arranges to meet you in the kitchen at 11:30 PM. Make sure you have this conversation on the First Day, because without it she does not show up.
Before you put the mask on, you can also take the optional Room Key. In the afternoon, before the Goron with a booking turns up, speak to Anju with no mask on and say you have a booking, and she lets you sign in and hands you the key. The key opens the inn’s front door after dark, so you can walk in at 11:30 PM instead of flying in from the roof, and it also opens the rooms upstairs. If you do not bother, you simply use the roof route at night.
Meet Anju in the kitchen at 11:30 PM
Be inside the Stock Pot Inn at 11:30 PM. The front door is locked at night unless you took the Room Key, so otherwise become a Deku Scrub, use the Deku Flower in East Clock Town to glide onto the inn’s roof and go in through the door there. Go to the kitchen on the ground floor and wait for Anju, who comes in at about 11:30 PM. Talk to her. She tells you she has had a letter from Kafei and gives you her own reply, the Letter to Kafei. Take it. This is the only copy you get this cycle.
Use the hours before 11:30 PM wisely, because nothing else in this quest happens in them. You can skip them with the Song of Double Time, or do the Rosa Sisters, Guru-Guru or the sound check described on the Bombers’ Notebook page. Do not give the letter to the hand in the inn’s restroom, which accepts any paper for a Piece of Heart: the Letter to Kafei is the one thing that hand must not get this cycle.
Second Day: Deliver the Letter
Mail the Letter to Kafei
Drop the letter into any mailbox in Clock Town before 6:00 AM on the Second Day (during the First Night, the hours right after your 11:30 PM meeting are the easiest). If you miss the deadline, the Postman never picks it up and Kafei never learns of it.
Follow the Postman to Kafei
Go to the Laundry Pool in the southwest corner of Clock Town on the Second Day and be there by about 3:00 PM. The Postman arrives, rings the bell and delivers the letter to a masked boy standing at the pool, who then slips behind a door. Go through the same door soon after and wait inside for the boy to come back in; the window is short, so do not dawdle. Speak to him from about 4:10 PM and agree to keep a secret: he is Kafei, who was turned into a child by Skull Kid, and his wedding mask, the Sun’s Mask, was stolen by a thief he describes as a prancing man from North Clock Town.
Take the Pendant of Memories
Kafei gives you the Pendant of Memories to carry to Anju. Talk to him once more before you leave: he is hiding in the back room of the Curiosity Shop, which you enter through the Laundry Pool, where he can watch for the thief. Keep the pendant until you can give it to Anju.
Take the pendant to the inn and give it to Anju at once if you can: she accepts it from the late afternoon of the Second Day, and the hard deadline is noon on the Final Day. Once she has it, she promises to wait for Kafei in Clock Town instead of leaving.
Final Day: The Pendant, the Sun’s Mask and the Reunion
Give the pendant to Anju
Return to the Stock Pot Inn and give Anju the Pendant of Memories at her front desk. Do it as soon as you can after Kafei hands it over on the Second Day, and in any case before noon on the Final Day. If the clock passes 12:00 PM on the Final Day without the pendant, Anju gives up and leaves Clock Town, and the quest cannot continue until the next cycle. If you cannot reach the inn in time, the easiest fix is to play the Song of Time and begin again.
Visit the Curiosity Shop back room
The back room of the Curiosity Shop (through the Laundry Pool) opens at 1:00 PM on the Final Day (in the 3DS remake it opens at 6:00 AM) and stays open until about 6:00 PM. Kafei is no longer there, but the Man from Curiosity Shop is. Speak to him. He says the thief is Sakon, a regular customer who lives in Ikana Canyon, and he gives you the Keaton Mask and a letter titled “Special Delivery to Mama” that is meant for Madame Aroma, Kafei’s mother. Keep the letter for later: you deliver it on the Final Day.
Travel to Ikana Canyon
Sakon’s Hideout is in Ikana Canyon, and you must be there before 7:00 PM, ideally by 6:00 PM. The fastest route is the Song of Soaring to the Ikana Canyon owl statue, then follow the canyon on foot to the hideout. If you have not woken that owl statue, ride Epona east along the Road to Ikana: put on Garo’s Mask so the lookouts let you pass and use the Hookshot where the road needs it. The Inverted Song of Time stretches the afternoon if you are tight on time.
Decide before you leave Clock Town where the Special Delivery to Mama is going. The Milk Bar and the Post Office only take it from 6:00 PM, which is also when you should be heading for Ikana, so the simple plan is to go to Ikana first, win back the Sun’s Mask, and deliver the letter when you return. If you would rather deliver it first, play the Inverted Song of Time shortly before 6:00 PM to stretch the evening, hand the letter over, then soar to Ikana and still arrive before 7:00 PM. Both rewards are explained under the delivery heading below.
Hide behind the rocks with Kafei
Near the hideout, find Kafei crouching behind the two big rocks and speak to him with your masks removed. Sakon comes walking up to his door, and he must not see you: wear the Stone Mask, or stay directly behind the rocks. Stay hidden with Kafei until Sakon opens the hideout door at 7:00 PM. If he spots you or Kafei, he runs away and the way in is closed for this cycle.
Get the Sun’s Mask in Sakon’s Hideout
When Sakon opens the door and goes inside, Kafei dashes in after him and you follow through the door straight ahead. Kafei spots his Sun’s Mask and accidentally steps on a switch that sets off an alarm and starts a conveyor belt carrying the mask toward a hole, where it falls back to Sakon, so you have to hurry. You swap between Link and Kafei: Kafei handles the blocks and floor slabs while Link deals with the enemies. The slabs are coloured. Blue slabs open the way forward, and on the conveyor Kafei must walk around the red slabs and use the yellow ones.
The order is as follows. First, as Link, step on the blue slab Kafei points out. Then, as Kafei, go through the next door and push a big block onto the blue slab in the middle of the room, which opens a door for Link. As Link, go through the left door and slash the Deku Baba. As Kafei, enter the room with the conveyor, walk around the red slabs, step on the yellow slabs to cross, and finish by stepping on the blue slab in the bottom-right corner. As Link, go through the door that opened and clear the two Deku Babas. As Kafei, push the leftmost block down, step on the yellow slab, pull the block to your right over that slab, then walk around and push the middle block down onto the blue slab. As Link, enter the next room and defeat the Wolfos. As Kafei, push the rightmost block out of the way of the door, go on to the next room and step on the blue slab there. Finally, as Link, enter the last room and step on its blue slab, and Kafei recovers the Sun’s Mask. If you are too slow, the mask drops into the hole and you must try again on the next cycle.
As soon as Kafei has his mask he runs off to Clock Town. Do not stop to look around: play the Song of Soaring to the Clock Town owl statue (or walk), and if you stretched the evening earlier with the Inverted Song of Time, play it again to put the clock back to its normal speed.
Deliver the Special Delivery to Mama
You can deliver the letter even if you skipped the hideout. From 6:00 PM on the Final Day, either give it to the Postman in the Post Office and follow him to the Milk Bar, then wait for him to come out again and speak to him beside the wall outside to earn the Postman’s Hat. Or go to the Milk Bar yourself (you need Romani’s Mask to get in) wearing Kafei’s Mask, give it to Madame Aroma, and she gives you a bottle of Chateau Romani. The letter can only be used once per cycle, so pick the reward you want, and do the other on the next cycle.
Both rewards are worth a cycle of their own. The Chateau Romani comes in a bottle and gives you unlimited magic for the rest of the cycle once you drink it. The Postman’s Hat lets you peek into mailboxes: the first one you look into holds a Piece of Heart. You have to play the delivery again to get the other prize, so plan your later cycles to get both.
Wait for the reunion
After the hideout, play the Song of Soaring to get back to Clock Town. If you have not yet delivered the Special Delivery to Mama, do that now. Go to the Stock Pot Inn and climb the stairs to the staff room upstairs. Anju is waiting there. Stay in the room until Kafei arrives at about 4:30 AM, with about an hour and a half left before the Moon falls. Kafei runs into the inn, the couple finally meet, swap their masks and vows, and you receive the Couple’s Mask for being their witness. Then play the Song of Time to return to the dawn of the First Day.
Quest Items
| Item | Where it comes from and where it goes |
|---|---|
 Room Key | From Anju on the First Day afternoon (no mask on); opens the inn’s front door at night and the guest rooms |
| Letter to Kafei | From Anju in the inn kitchen at 11:30 PM on the First Night; mail it before 6:00 AM on the Second Day |
| Pendant of Memories | From Kafei at about 4:10 PM on the Second Day; give it to Anju by noon on the Final Day |
| Special Delivery to Mama | From the Man from Curiosity Shop from 1:00 PM on the Final Day; give it to the Postman or to Madame Aroma, never both |
Rewards
| Reward | How you get it |
|---|---|
| Kafei’s Mask | From Madame Aroma on the First or Second Day |
 Keaton Mask | From the Man from Curiosity Shop at 1:00 PM on the Final Day |
 Postman’s Hat | Deliver the Special Delivery to Mama through the Postman |
| Couple’s Mask | Witness the reunion at about 4:30 AM on the Final Day |
The Couple’s Mask is the key to a Piece of Heart. On any later cycle, on the First or Second Day, from 10:00 AM into the evening (arrive before 6:00 PM to be safe), go into the Mayor’s Residence, enter the meeting room where Mayor Dotour and the townsfolk are arguing about whether to cancel the Carnival of Time, and wear it. The mask reminds everyone that a young couple has married, the meeting breaks up, and the Mayor hands you a Piece of Heart as a token of thanks.
The Postman’s Hat has its own Piece of Heart. Wear the hat and look inside the first Clock Town mailbox you check: the first box you peek into pays out a Piece of Heart.
Common Mistakes
- Stopping Sakon on the First Night to win the Blast Mask, which breaks the whole chain for that cycle.
- Talking to Anju in Kafei’s Mask before the Postman has left, or leaving it until after the First Day.
- Missing the 6:00 AM mail deadline on the Second Day, so the letter never arrives.
- Giving the Letter to Kafei to the hand in the inn restroom, which leaves you with nothing to mail.
- Giving Anju the pendant after noon on the Final Day; she has already left by then.
- Arriving at the hideout late or being seen by Sakon, which locks you out until the next cycle.
- Stepping on red switches in the hideout, which speeds the belt and drops the mask.
- Being outside the Stock Pot Inn room when the reunion happens.
- Using the Special Delivery to Mama on the wrong person: one letter, one reward per cycle.
If a cycle goes wrong, you do not lose what you have already earned: Kafei’s Mask, the Keaton Mask, the Postman’s Hat and the Couple’s Mask all stay with you after the Song of Time, and only the people and their schedule reset. A failed run therefore costs you three days and no masks. The Letter to Kafei, the Pendant of Memories and the Special Delivery to Mama do not carry over, which is why you collect them fresh each time.
