Shin-Chan: Shiro And The Coal Town - How To Make Pocket Money

You may be just a kid, but you still need a bit of pocket money to afford things like ingredients in Shin-Chan: Shiro And The Coal Town, but how do you get it? There's no breaking pots or opening chests for it in this game.

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Later on, you'll need quite a lot of money to afford the best trolley parts, or if you want to grab a rare mineral quickly. Since you aren't able to sell items either, you'll need to resort to a variety of different tasks and missions across both locations to earn money and have a consistent income.

How To Make Pocket Money

Pocket Money is going to be how you buy any purchasable item in the game, such as most cooking ingredients, gems and junk items, minerals, and certain important items.

At the start of the game, you can hold up to 1,500 Yen at one time, but completing the main mission, The First Leader Appears, and witnessing a scene with your family will unlock a series of sub-missions that will reward you with your first wallet, and let you carry more Pocket Money at once.

Any excess Yen you receive will disappear if you go over the 1,500 Yen limit before you receive the Kiddy Wallet.

How To Show Kazuko New Finds

A massive source of money throughout the game will be recording new entries in the book that Kazuko gave you​​​​​.

When you visit her and ask her to record your findings, she'll pay you some Yen for each new entry added to any of the four categories within it: Fish, Insects, Vegetables, and Minerals.

Once you fill up all the pages, Kazuko will no longer pay you for entries, even if they're for a new King Size.

In total, you've got 112 entries to fill up and, while it starts small at around ten Yen for finding the early game vegetables and animals, like Ostrich Fern and Swallowtail Butterflies, you'll earn more Yen once you log rarer animals and harder to find minerals.

How To Give Kazuko Fireflies

Once you complete the main mission, The Public Bath Is Ready, you can find Kazuko at the Open Air Market at night if you go exploring, and she'll ask you if you have any fireflies, alongside accepting anything new you've found like normal.

Giving Kazuko 50 fireflies will get you the Become The Firefly King achievement.

This doesn't count as a sub-mission, but you do still get rewarded for doing what she asks. For each firefly you give her, regardless of the type, she'll pay you 20 Yen, making it a decent source of money early on in the game, as Fireflies are easy to farm.

After giving her at least one firefly on any night, Kazuko will also exchange Yen for them during the day as long as you have some in your inventory.

How To Complete Cooking Challenges

Unlocked during the main mission, This Guy's Favorite Order, Cooking Challenges are special sub-missions that have you gathering the ingredients of a recipe and having Yosoi make a dish for someone.

For the majority of them, you'll get a reward of Yen from the client for completing it. It starts relatively small at 200 Yen for the first challenges, like Ms. Natsue's Dinner Plans 1, but later ones reward you with 400 Yen each, or even larger payouts.

A handful of these challenges reward you with rare materials like Raw Sapphire instead of Yen, but they are still worth doing for that reward and getting the dish added to the Food Menu.

You'll also get a large payout from Yosoi for increasing the number of customers in the diner by adding more dishes to the menu on top of the rewards from each challenge.

Dishes On Menu

Bonus Pay Given

3 Dishes

300 Yen

6 Dishes

500 Yen

12 Dishes

800 Yen

18 Dishes

1,500 Yen

How To Fulfill Diner Orders

While the profit can fluctuate due to how it works, fulfilling orders at Yosoi's diner can be done daily to get yourself Pocket Money, as Yosoi pays you for each order that you complete.

Up to five customers can come in a day, and each of themwill have a perfect dish in mind. They'll give you a hint about what they want based on a combination of the original dish description from its challenge, and those given by Yosoi on the Food Order menu.

The wanted dish chosen is random and no customer has a set of dishes they'll hint toward or only hints at one item every time.

After you've chosen, Yosoi will serve the dish to them, you'll get a response from the diner, and depending on how close you get to their ideal choice, you'll get one of four minimal, average, or maximum payouts after you talk to Yosoi:

• An 80 Yen payout means you weren't close to the dish they wanted at all.
• A 100 Yen payout means you had at least one hint correct on the dish that they wanted.
• A 200 Yen payout means you got at least two hints correct, but it was the perfect dish.
• A 300 Yen payout means you gave them the exact dish they hinted at.

Even partially getting the dishes correct can get you around 500 Yen per day, and since the dishes are free to make once you've unlocked them via Cooking Challenge, it's a great way to have a consistent source of Yen coming in.

How To Trade On Bulletin Boards

You can find two Bulletin Boards, one in Unbent Village and one in Coal Town, each of which offers you six trades per day that you can complete, for a total of 12 across both boards.

• Unbent Village's Bulletin Board becomes available once you've completed the main mission, The Old Lady's Family Court, and you've witnessed the scene at the Open Air Market.
• Coal Town's Bulletin Board becomes available after completing the main mission, The Strange Masked Man, and unlocking access to the In Front Of Public Bath area.

Most of the time, these trades will request one item for another, like a certain amount of a specific bug for a few vegetables or fish, but sometimes you'll come across ones that reward you with Yen instead.

Your reward money ranges from 120 to 200 Yen per trade, and with 12 chances to get offers like this per day, once you have both boards unlocked, you can turn excess items like Ostrich Ferns into a nice profitif you get lucky with the number of those trades you get.

How To Get Yen From Sub-Missions

Later in the game, once you complete the main mission, The First Victory, by beating Yuta in a Trolley Race, you'll be able to get a series of sub-missions from Toroku's brother, Jyuroku, Trolley Shop Parts.

Another late-game sub-mission, It's Hard Out Here For A Butterfly Bro, also rewards you with 900 Yen for completing it.

These sub-missions require you to get certain materials for Jyuroku, and not only will these unlock more types of trolley parts and upgrades for all of them, but each of them also gives you a monetary reward.

Sub-Mission

Yen Reward

Trolley Shop's New Parts 1

300 Yen

Trolley Shop's New Parts 2

400 Yen

Trolley Shop's New Parts 3

800 Yen

Trolley Shop's New Parts 4

900 Yen

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