There are many things to do and items to collect in Kakariko Village before proceeding to the next part of the game.

Collect Golden Skulltulas at Night

You can find five golden skulltulas in Kakariko Village at night.

• Roll attack the tree in town.
• Check the back wall of the house that is close to the entrance to Death Mountain Trail.
• Use the slingshot to kill the one on the ladder to the lookout tower.
• Check the window of the House of Skulltula.
• Find one on the pile of bricks on the house under construction in the middle of town.

Find Anju's Cuccuos

Talk to the girl near the graveyard entrance. The girl there has lost her cuccos and asks you to find them for her.

Be sure not to attack cuccos too much. If you do, a bunch of cuccos will swarm around and attack you until you either die or escape to another area.

Here is how to find the girl's cuccos:

1. The first cucco is close to where the girl is standing. Don't throw it into the pen yet. Instead, carry it up the stairs near the girl. At the end of the ledge, there is no fence. There is a ledge across the way that is fenced in. With the help of the cucco that you are carrying, you can jump from here to the fenced-in ledge on the left to reach that area. When you get over the fence, throw the cucco back over the fence so you can go get it later.
2. Go down the stairs, turn around, and be sure not to fall into the hole in the ground. Pick up the cucco that is hiding here and go up the stairs and throw it over the fence.
3. Before leaving this area, climb up the ladder to reach the cucco walking around near the windmill. Take it to the cucco pen, then go get the first two cuccos and throw them in as well.
4. Next to the house of skulltula, there is a fence with a Cucco behind it. You can hit it with the slingshot to make it run off of the edge, or you can take another cucco and float down to it from the house being built.
5. Roll attack the box at the base of the tall stairs near the tree.
6. Go toward the entrance of Death Mountain Trail to find a cucco nearby.
7. The last cucco can be found somewhere around the tree and the entrance to Kakariko Village.

After putting all 7 of the cuccos back into the pen, talk to the cucco girl to receive an empty bottle. If you leave town and go back, you can put the cuccos into the pen to receive 50 rupees from Anju.

Get a Graveyard Skulltula

Go to the graveyard. It's east of the town well. There is a rock just outside of the wooden fence gate of the graveyard. Pick it up and some bugs will appear. Catch one in your empty bottle. Then go to the left wall of the graveyard and go past the leftmost grave to find a spot of soft soil. Stand on the edge of the spot and drop the bugs into the soil. If you can, try to scoop up one of the bugs that fall out so you can have another in your bottle. The bugs on the ground will crawl into the soft soil, then a moment later a gold skulltula will pop out. Kill it and get the token.

Get a Hylian Shield

In the graveyard, look for a grave with flowers in front of it near the front of the graveyard. If it's night time and nobody is around, get behind the grave and pull it backward to reveal a hole. Jump in. Open the chest at the end of the room to receive a Hylian Shield. Equip it.

Learn Sun's Song

Go all the way to the grave at the far end of the graveyard. Stand on the Triforce symbol and play Zelda's Lullaby to make lightning shatter the grave. Drop in.

Inside the grave, there are keese on the walls. There is one near the door, another on the right wall, and two more on the statue on the far wall. You can use your slingshot to hit them from a distance or just run up and hit them with your sword. Once you kill them all, the door will open. Climb the stairs and go through.

Stay along the left wall. The ReDeads in this room can freeze you by looking at you, then they can grab onto you and drain your life. If you stay near the far left wall, you should be far enough away to run away even if you get frozen.

Go to the passage in the far wall and follow the path. Read the wall to learn Sun's Song.

Go back the way you came. Play Sun's Song in the room with the ReDeads to temporarily freeze them all, then exit the grave.

Get a Piece of Heart

If you are standing on the Triforce Symbol in the graveyard and looking toward Kakariko Village, look to the left at the row of graves there. In the row of graves on the left, pull the grave that is the second from the right (if the game doesn't let you, play Sun's Song to change the time of day. You might need to leave town to change it to a time of day when Dampé and the boy are not in the graveyard.) Inside, play Sun's Song to freeze the ReDead, then kill it with your sword or other weapons, then stand on the platform and play Sun's Song again to reveal a chest that contains a piece of heart.

Play Dampé's Heart-Pounding Gravedigging Tour

Between 6:00 PM and 9:00 PM, Dampé will run the Heart-Pounding Gravedigging Tour in Kakariko Graveyard. You can talk to the soldier at the entrance of the village to find out the current time. Pay Dampé 10 rupees to dig in dirt piles around the graveyard. Make sure that he is standing on the edge of a dirt pile when you ask him to dig. Don't ask him to dig the same spot twice in a row; wait for him to go all the way around before asking him to dig at that spot again. The longer you play, the more likely it becomes that he will dig up the piece of heart, so don't give up. Keep playing and you will get it eventually.

Get the Adult Wallet

If you have at least 10 gold skulltula tokens, go into the house of skulltula and talk to the one human in the house to receive the Adult Wallet, which lets you carry up to 200 rupees.

Open the Path to Death Mountain Trail

Read the earlier section on this page about how to get a free Hylian Shield from the graveyard. Equip it. Then talk to the soldier guarding the Death Mountain Trail entrance. Show him Zelda's Letter and he will open the way. You can now get masks from the Happy Mask Shop in Hyrule Castle Town.

When you're ready, go to Death Mountain Trail through the entrance that the soldier opened for you.