Ready for an adventure before DrupalCon Nara 2025 even begins?
Nara - famous for its rich collection of art, history, architecture, scenery, and beauty - transforms on Sunday November 16 for the first ever DrupalCon Treasure Hunt!
DrupalCon Nara 2025 が始まる前に、ひと足早く冒険に出かけませんか?
芸術、歴史、建築、自然、そして美しさに彩られた奈良が、11月16日(日)に「DrupalCon 宝探し」の舞台へと変わります!
Teams of up to three people race across the city. From bowing with sacred deer to solving riddles at ancient temples, this four-hour competition offers a completely new way to connect with the community while exploring one of Japan's most beautiful cities.
This isn't your typical conference activity. Starting at 11am, teams will navigate through UNESCO World Heritage sites, interact with Nara's famous deer, and tackle creative challenges that will have you posting selfies, hunting for hidden landmarks, and testing your Drupal trivia knowledge—all while competing for exciting prizes.
For just AUD $30 per person, you'll experience Nara in a way that no guidebook could ever offer, creating memories and friendships that will last a lifetime.
Each team can consist of up to 3 people. You can absolutely play as a duo or solo if you want, but no more than 3 people per team. Your team is there to support each other, and cannot separate during the event.
Each team must have at least one member with a valid DrupalCon Nara ticket. That ticket holder can invite up to two family members or friends to join their team, even if they don't have conference tickets themselves.
Although not every team member needs a DrupalCon ticket, every team member must register for the Treasure Hunt as it is a separate event.
You need to come up with a unique name for your team, which you can let us know when each team member registers for the event.
If you want to join a team but don’t know anyone else who is coming, don’t worry! We encourage you to post in the #drupalcon_asia channel in the official Drupal Slack to see if anyone else is looking to join a team.
Registrations close on November 7, 2025, 23:59 JST. Teams must be registered before the event so you cannot join a different team on the day.
These offer the fewest points but are easy to do; All your team has to do is show up. Some check-in locations will have an Official who can stamp your scorecard right away, while others will need you to take photographic or video evidence to prove you were there, which you can show to an Official at another checkpoint later on.
Checkpoints which are further away from the starting location will award more points, and some offer serious bounty.
These offer different rewards based on the complexity of the challenge. For example, a challenge might require you to get a video of a deer bowing to you in exchange for a delicious cracker. Easy! But another challenge might require you to visit a museum and answer a tricky question about Nara’s history. Yet another challenge might offer a riddle at a certain location, to give you a clue about how to answer.
The more challenging the challenge, the more points are awarded!
A tribute to DrupalCon Trivia Night’s from around the world. Visit a special checkpoint, find an Official, and ask them to test your knowledge. If your team can answer correctly, you’ll receive points.
Trivia questions will focus on general knowledge, Nara, Japan, DrupalCons, and of course Drupal itself.
As a participant you not only get to do exciting activities, have hours of fun, and complete challenges that will keep you on your toes. On top of all that, you’ll get some awesome goodies to make the experience even more memorable:
🎟️ Exclusive participation button
🏃 Race bib with your contestant number
🏆 Chance to win great prizes
🎁 Welcome bag with goodies from Nara and Japan
Officials are the DrupalCon Nara organising team and volunteers who are donating their time to make this DrupalCon Nara possible. Because Nara is so big, and our ranks so few, officials will only be at certain checkpoints. Officials will be identifiable from bright yellow DrupalCon Nara t-shirts and we’ll be wearing our conference badges already.
Find us, show us your completed challenges, or ask us for trivia quests, and we will reward you!
We are also looking for more volunteers to be Officials!
We’ve designed the Treasure Hunt so that everyone can have fun and take part with a chance to win. While some challenges might be harder to get to (such as up hills or trails), many challenges will be easy to reach via public transport.
We will be paying close attention to the Rules (below) and will be making sure that all teams adhere to them and the spirit of fun, fairness, and inclusion. Teams found to be breaking the rules or making for an unpleasant experience may be disqualified.
If you are concerned about accessibility or fairness at this event, please contact us via events@drupalasia.org.