Casino control room

Sae’s palace is very straightforward in Persona 5. While the hallways may twist and turn, there is frequently only one path. It is broken up into a couple of different floors that you will progress through.

No matter how you feel about him as a character, Goro Akechi is an invaluable member of the Phantom Thieves throughout this dungeon. He is strong, and his Persona’s abilities are very helpful. Take him with you.

Disclaimer: This guide was originally written for Persona 5, which Atlus released stateside in 2017. If you’ve found your way to this guide and are playing Persona 5 Royal — the 2020 update with additional content that’s hitting Xbox and Switch later this year — you can still follow along. However, note that Royal did introduce changes to several parts of the game, adding grapple points and reworking certain boss encounters. So while the paths are generally the same, you may run into some inconsistencies.

If you’re looking to find Persona 5 Royal’s new Will Seeds hidden in this dungeon, use our guide on Niijima’s Palace Will Seeds of Greed locations to locate them.

Table of contents

Member’s Card

Return to the Main Floor Safe Room. Once you have fast traveled, go up the stairs and onto the balcony that held the chest from earlier. Look for a grey door on the right side of the balcony. It will be covered in posters. Enter through this door and into a small room. Exit this small room through the door across from you.

Head forward along the hall until you reach some stairs. Head down the stairs and follow the right path for a treasure chest.

Return to the stairs and follow the left path instead. Enter the next door that you come across. Once through, follow the path and look left for some machinery to climb over. Do this now.

Follow the path from here and hug the right wall. Go through the second door on your right for a chest.

Walk out of the chest room and go straight to find the Staff Passageway Safe Room.

Instead of going up the stairs and fighting the scary shadow head on, climb up the mechanical looking boxes to your right. Once you reach the top of the boxes, you will see a vent opening. Go through it.

Once out of the vent, jump down and take the door on your left. You will now be behind the scary shadow and can ambush it. You can take it down fairly easily with Wind spells. Once it falls, you will get a security keycard. This is a vital item.

Return to the previous room and go through the right door. Follow the path until you reach a gated door. Use your new keycard to open it. Once inside, crawl through the vent and emerge in the control room.

Approach the giant shadow and attack it. It will go down quickly if you use Psi abilities. He will drop a bunch of Member’s Cards. Futaba will approach the control panel and register you a new card. She will also procure a map of the floor.

Head through the vent that Ryuji finds. You will be in a small room. Use your keycard on the door to the right and return to the long hallway. Turn left up the stairs. Take the door in front of you and go up some more stairs.

Take a right off the stairs and go through the keycard door to your left. From here, return to the elevator that Sae went up. Use your keycard on the elevator and ride up to the Member’s Floor.

High Limit Card

Congratulations, you have reached the Member’s Floor. The first thing you need to do now is approach the counter in front of you. The cashier will explain the coin system and tell you what you need to do next. You need 50,000 coins before you can buy the next floor’s card. He will give you some starting coins and a map.

Dice Game

Before going to gamble your new coins away, take the first right from the elevator to find the Member’s Floor Safe Room. Now return to the counter and hang a left. Enter into the dice game area. You will be in a large game room. Ignore all of it for now and take a left out of the hall. Approach the vent and crawl through it.

Once you emerge out of the vent, take a right and follow the path. You will find some more climbable machines ahead of you. Climb them.

Once you cross the machine, hang right and enter a small room for a chest.

Take the left path until you reach a door. Enter through the door and head up the stairs to your right. You will now be on the second floor. Follow the second floor path until you reach another staircase. Take this staircase down and follow the path. Take a right and then a left. In front of you will be the entrance to the Dice Game Area Safe Room.

Hang a right out of the safe room and fallow the right side hall. Once you reach the door, go through it and continue along the path. Ignore the barred door for now and take two right turns. There will be a vent on the back side of the room. Crawl through it for a chest.

Continue along the hall once you leave the chest room. Take the door at the end of the hall and go left to unlock a shortcut. From the door, continue forward and enter the dice game control room. Attack the operator and use Bless skills to take him down quickly.

Once he is dead, Futaba will rig one of the game rooms. Exit into the game area through the shortcut you recently created. Approach the game room with an exclamation mark over it.

Approach the game master and bet on "Between 3-10." Do this four times and you will gain some coins. Take your winnings and attempt to leave the dice game area. Akechi will somehow get a bunch of extra coins for your team. Leave the area and walk straight forward into the slots area.

Slots

Walk along the slots and fight the hostess shadows along the way. At the end of the hall, take a left and go up the stairs. Fallow the path until you reach a very fancy room. Walk right and unlock a shortcut for yourself.

Return to the stairwell and take the door in the center of the room. You will now be in the room with the big slots. Approach the gigantic slot machine in the middle of the room and examine it.

From here, head up the left stairs and observe the middle wall. (You can climb it from the left side.) Doing so will net you a chest.

Follow along the back area until you reach the exclamation point. Reach the terminal the same way you reached the chest. Futaba will examine it and tell you that you need to find two new terminals. The instructions she gives you can be a little confusing. Leave this room in search of the red and green terminals.

Head right down the hallway with the pacing enemy. Go through the door and climb to your left to reach some treasure …

... and also the green terminal. It is located directly behind the chest.

The red terminal is also very easy to find. Back track your way to the start of the slot room area, where you first fought the hostess enemies. The red terminal will be on the wall by the entrance door.