Kabuki: Central

Included area

For practical purposes, this guide treats the following as part of the Kabuki district:

The following are neighbouring locations, not subareas of Kabuki:

Game8’s Kabuki guide lists nine fast-travel dataterms for the broader district: Pinewood St, Allen St South, Kabuki: Central, Bellevue Overwalk, Creek Loop, Sutter St, Charter St, Kennedy North and Kabuki Market.

Suggested route from Kabuki: Central

Kabuki’s dense design makes it easy to mistake an inaccessible shopfront for an enterable building. A business sign alone does not establish that a shop has a working vendor, quest interior or purchasable service.

Kabuki Market

Kabuki Market is the district’s most important commercial zone. It is a crowded open-air market with food stalls, signs, informal services and a mixture of civilians and gang members. The market is both a social space and a gameplay hub. It is used as a meeting and search location in side content, including Woman of La Mancha, in which V looks for Anna Hamill around Kabuki Market.

The market is also a useful place to inspect the difference between:

Kabuki Roundabout

Kabuki Roundabout is a large circular market structure and one of the district’s clearest visual landmarks. It contains layered walkways, shops, food stalls and combat spaces. It is also associated with the Beat on the Brat: Kabuki boxing encounter.

The roundabout is not simply a fast-travel station. It is a navigational centre that connects several vertical routes. If you are lost, descend to the lower market levels and look for signs, stairways and the central ring rather than trying to cross the upper highway structures.

Kabuki’s elevated roads and unfinished structures

Kabuki contains several incomplete or elevated road structures. These spaces are used by random encounters, NCPD activities and at least one Cyberpsycho Sighting. Demons of War takes place on an unfinished highway bridge in Kabuki, while Mower occurs near the intersection of Abraham and Allen Street, east of Lizzie’s Bar, according to activity directories.

These areas are useful for exploration because they contain routes and vantage points that are not obvious from street level. They can also produce awkward combat encounters if V approaches from above and triggers enemies before finding the intended entrance.

Regina Jones

Regina Jones is Kabuki’s fixer and the source of the district’s gigs. She operates from Watson and coordinates jobs involving missing people, gang activity, stolen goods and dangerous individuals.

Kabuki’s activities include a mixture of low- and mid-tier fixer work. The exact order in which they appear depends on V’s progression, Street Cred and the game’s open-world unlock conditions. The district guide lists the following Kabuki gigs:

Game8 lists these as Kabuki gigs, while the wider Watson gig directories distinguish them from activities in Little China and Northside.

Tyger Claws

The Tyger Claws are the most visible organised gang in Kabuki. They appear in street encounters, guarded locations and some gig areas. Their influence is reflected in the district’s neon-heavy market culture, protection rackets and gang-controlled interiors.

Do not assume that every hostile group in Kabuki is Tyger Claw. Gig areas can contain Maelstrom, scavengers, hired security or other criminals depending on the job.

The Mox

The Mox are associated with Kabuki through venues and businesses connected to the district’s nightlife and sex-work economy. Lizzie’s Bar is their headquarters and a major early story location. It is commonly described as a Kabuki landmark, although players should treat the immediate bar area and the wider Kabuki market as separate places rather than assuming all Lizzie’s Bar content occurs at Kabuki: Central.

Ordinary NPCs

Most are atmosphere rather than named residents. Their presence is important to the district’s identity, but the game does not provide a complete canonical directory of Kabuki’s ordinary population.

Ripperdocs

Kabuki contains multiple ripperdoc entries in vendor directories, including Charles Bucks and Robert Rainwater, as well as a generic Kabuki ripperdoc listing. Because vendor directories sometimes separate named doctors from map labels, players should verify the shop’s name in their current game rather than assuming every listed entry is a different clinic.

Weapon vendors

The Kabuki weapon vendor is commonly identified as Straight Shooters. It sells firearms, ammunition, attachments, modifications and, depending on version and progression, crafting specifications. The stock is not fixed forever, so returning after levelling can reveal different rarity tiers.

Clothing

Kabuki has a clothing vendor entry. Clothing stock is level-dependent and should not be treated as a permanent list of unique Kabuki rewards. The district also contains numerous clothing signs and fashion storefronts that are scenery rather than shops.

Food, drink and informal stalls

Kabuki Market contains food and drink businesses, but not every visible stall has a purchase interaction. The safest approach is to approach the counter and look for a vendor prompt rather than relying on the shop sign.

Drop points

Drop points are present around Kabuki and can be used to sell unwanted items. They are not shops and do not offer the same services as vendors. Their placement is useful when clearing multiple gigs because Kabuki’s dense streets can leave V overburdened after repeated combat.

Kabuki gig directory

The following are the Kabuki-associated gig names listed by the district guides:

The objectives and approach options differ considerably. Some are rescue jobs, some are theft or recovery work, and others involve eliminating a target. Treat the list as a directory, not as a guaranteed order of appearance.

Woman of La Mancha

This gig is strongly associated with Kabuki Market. V searches for Anna Hamill, a police officer who has become involved with local corruption and gang pressure. The market’s crowded layout makes stealth and conversation-based approaches more practical than simply treating the area as a combat arena.

Hippocratic Oath

This rescue gig involves Lucy Thackery, who is being held by Maelstrom. Its location is listed in Watson gig directories as Kabuki-related, although the broader encounter area can feel more like an industrial or clinical backstreet than the central market.

Last Login

This is a thievery gig involving Alois Daquin’s laptop. The objective is a good example of Kabuki’s layered building design, where the marked destination may be above or below the most obvious street entrance.

Beat on the Brat: Kabuki

Kabuki is one of the locations used by the Beat on the Brat side-job chain. The encounter takes place around the Kabuki Roundabout. It is a close-quarters fist fight, so cyberware, healing items, body attributes and defensive timing matter more than ordinary firearm builds.

NCPD Scanner Hustles

Kabuki contains multiple NCPD Scanner Hustles. These include assaults, reported crimes and organised-crime activities. Scanner Hustles are generally permanent combat or investigation events rather than endlessly repeating encounters. Once completed, the marked activity disappears.

If a blue marker seems absent, check the map filters, change the time and revisit the area after completing nearby content. Avoid claiming that a missing marker proves the activity does not exist.

Cyberpsycho Sightings

Kabuki is associated with at least two Cyberpsycho Sighting locations in activity directories:

These form part of Regina Jones’s wider Cyberpsycho Sighting quest chain. Non-lethal damage is not always mandatory for progression, but players who want the non-lethal objective should avoid lethal finishing attacks and use blunt weapons, non-lethal modifications or controlled damage. The locations and names are listed in activity directories and Cyberpsycho guides.

Environmental hazards

Stealth is particularly effective in Kabuki’s shop-and-alley environments. Cameras, access points and side doors often allow a player to bypass the main entrance, but the correct route depends on the individual mission and the player’s attributes.

Fast-travel dataterms

These are listed as Kabuki fast-travel locations by the district map guide.

Landmarks and named places

Ho-Oh is described as a Tyger Claw-owned casino. Only its ground floor is normally accessible to customers, while other areas are associated with gang activity.

Named or identified vendors

Some directories use generic service names while others identify individual vendors. These should not automatically be counted as separate physical shops without checking the current game version.