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Harv's Island Plaza: What to Do and How to Unlock

Animal Crossing: New Horizons (ACNH) - Harv

Version 2.0 of Animal Crossing: New Horizons (ACNH) brings with it some rather radical changes: Harv's Island now has a plaza and he wants your help in helping it flourish! Read on for more information about Harv's Plaza, including what to do at Harv's Plaza, how to unlock Harv's Plaza, and more!

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How to Unlock Harv's Plaza

ACNH - The player talks to Harv and Harriet

Step Direction
1 Reach 3 Stars on your island and open your mailbox the day after.
2 Visit Harv's Island.
3 Head to the newly opened plaza.
4 Raise money to construct shops.

1. Pick Up the Letter

ACNH - Harv

Pick up Harv's letter in your mailbox to find out that he has something to tell you once you visit his island. He will only mail you this letter after you've reached a 3-star rating on your island.

How to Quickly Raise Your Island Star Rating to 3 Stars & 5 Stars

2. Travel to Harv's Island

ACNH - Visit Harv

Head to your island's airport and talk to Orville to visit Harv's Island.

3. Head to the Newly Opened Plaza

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Once you arrive to Harv's Island, head to the new area with the wooden gate to find Harv and Harriet in the middle of the plaza. After the cutscene, you can start donating Bells to the Gyroids to construct the shops.

4. Raise Money to Construct Shops

ACNH - Lloid the gyroid asks for funds

Raise money for Gyroids and construct permanent shops for NPCs like Saharah, Kicks, and Redd!

There are a total of seven shops to construct, each costing 100,000 Bells. Talking to the Gyroids lets you know which shop to construct. See the table below to learn which description corresponds to each special character.

List of Shop Descriptions

Special Character Shop Description
Redd Legitimate art dealer
Sahara Merchant offering rugs and mysterious wallpapers
Kicks Dapper dealer of fine shoes and handbags
Leif Botany expert with the greenest of thumbs
Tortimer Old-timer who'll give you access to your home storage
Reese and Cyrus Talented husband-and-wife furniture-refurbishing team
Katrina Mysteriously accurate fortune-teller

How to Get Bells Fast

Harv's Plaza Map

Need to find your way around Harv's Island? You can use our map to check all the shops and facilities in the island.

List of Harv's Plaza Shops

ACNH - A resident comes across Harv and Harriet

With the new Version 2.0 update Harv's Island is underwent some extreme changes!

With the help of Harriet, Harv's longtime friend, shops have risen in Harv's Plaza!

List of Shops in Harv's Plaza
Reese and Cyrus' Customization Shop Harriet's Hair Salon
Katrina's Fortune Shop Tortimer's Storage
Saharah's Shop Kicks' Shop
Redd's Shop Leif's Garden Shop

Reese and Cyrus' Customization Shop

ACNH - Reese and Cyrus customize furniture

You can bring ready-made furniture to Reese and Cyrus to customize items that you can't customize on your own!

How to Find Reese & Cyrus' Customizations

Harriet's Hair Salon

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Version 2.0 brings seven new hairstyles and Harriet's the gal to gussy your hair up for you! Sit in her chair for the makeover of your life!

How to Find Harriet's Hair Salon

Katrina's Fortune Shop

ACNH - Katrina reads a player

Feeling (un)lucky? Learn what your lucky stars have to say for you by getting your fortune read by Katrina for 1,000 Bells!

In addition to fortune reading, Katrina lets you check your friendship level with a certain villager for a 1,000 Bells. She also allows you to increase your friendship further for 10,000 Bells.

How to Find Katrina's Fortune Shop

Tortimer's Storage

ACNH - Tortimer offers storage

Got your hands full? Tortimer's here to help out by offering you to put your items in storage! No more need for pesky flights back-and-forth islands just because you picked up more items than you could handle!

How to Find Tortimer's Storage

Saharah's Shop

ACNH - Saharah sits in front of her shop

Saharah is a camel who sells mysterious rugs and mysterious flooring. Sometimes, you can even get some moving wallpaper and moving wallpaper from Saharah!

How to Find Saharah's Rugs, Wallpaper and Flooring

Kicks' Shop

ACNH - A resident stares at Kicks while at Harv

Kicks is a skunk who sells shoes, socks, and bags. He's always up to date with the coolest swag, so be sure to not miss him when he comes!

How to Find Kicks' Shop on Harv's Island

Redd's Shop

ACNH - Redd fixes something up in Harv

Redd is a sly fox who sells artwork (sometimes real, sometimes fake!) and furniture. He also holds his raffle while he is in the plaza!

How to Find Redd's Shop on Harv's Island

Leif's Garden Shop

ACNH - A resident runs towards Leif

Leif is a sloth who sells shrubs, starts, and flowers to the player. He also buys weeds at twice the price!

While in the plaza, Leif offers a new weeding service allowing you to pay him to remove all the weeds in your island for 100,000 Bells!

How to Find Leif's Garden Shop

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Comment

2 Anonymousover 2 years

same and I haven’t had my first kk concert so I can’t get to the plaza

1 Passersbyabout 3 years

I started my island over when 2.0 was released and it seems you can't have Harv's plaza until after you have had your first KK concert.... should probably put that in. :) Thanks for the hard work

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