How to unlock shops at Harv’s Island Plaza in Animal Crossing: New Horizons

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There are a lot of shops to discover at Harv’s Island Plaza in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, so here’s every shop available in the game, and how you can unlock them all. 

One of the most exciting new features in Animal Crossing: New Horizons is the shops that you can visit on Harv’s Island. Once you unlock everything, the Plaza will eventually become a bustling place filled with locales for some of the game’s temporary shops.

Harv’s Island Plaza is unlocked after you get a photo studio in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, which happens when you have at least three villagers living on your island if you’re just starting out.

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You can start working on the Plaza after your first visit, once you’ve spoken to Harv and Harriet. So, here’s every shop available at Harv’s Island Plaza and how you can unlock them in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

Shops available on Harv’s Island Plaza

An image of one of the shop's at Harv's Island Plaza in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.Nintendo (via Twitter: @triforcemeg)
Leif is just one of the vendors who can set up shop on Harv’s Island Plaza.

The full list of stores that can be built on Harv’s Island Plaza is as follows:

  • Shampoodle: Harriet’s Hair Salon
  • Redd: Paintings and sculptures
  • Sahara: Rugs and wallpapers
  • Katrina: Fortune Teller
  • Re-tail: Reese and Cyrus’ customization shop
  • Leif: Bushes, flowers, trees
  • Tortimer: Storage access on the Plaza

Unfortunately, not every single traveling shopkeeper can set up a permanent location on Harv’s Island Plaza. For example, CJ and Flick cannot be made permanent, and neither can Turnip hustler Daisy Mae.

Quite a few can be unlocked, though, and it’s definitely worth building each one for the convenience of not having to wait around for them to show up.

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How to unlock different shops on Harv’s Island Plaza

An image of one of the Harv Island shops at the Plaza in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.Nintendo
Katrina’s fortune-telling can be unlocked on Harv’s Island too.

To build the various vendors on the Plaza, you’ll need to contribute 100,000 Bells for each one. This is done by donating to the Gyroid standing where each shop will go.

Each shop takes a day to build, so you’re looking at a minimum of seven days to get it all filled out. Harriet’s salon is automatically added once you build the first shop.

That’s everything you need to know about Harv’s Island shops in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. For more advice on how to improve your island paradise, check out our guides below: