Jabu-Jabu's Belly

Drop a fish to get sucked into another fish

Enter Jabu Jabu’s Belly

Walk into Jabu Jabu after dumping a fish in a bottle in front of him. In the first room, I personally would run to the door, turn around, and shoot the switch on the ceiling with your slingshot.

Shoot the switch on the ceiling with your slingshot

Follow Princess Ruto down a Hole

Walk through the next room, and open another door. Eventually you will see Princess Ruto (a lovely and nice Zora Lady). Talk to her, and she will decide to walk away and then fall into a hole. Jump into the hole after her. Talk to her again a few times until she lets you carry her.

Talk to Princess Ruto until she lets you carry her

Carry her through the door right next to you. Carry her past the bubbles through the passageway until you get to a room with a switch in the middle of it. Throw Ruto to the other side of the room before stepping on the switch.

Throw Ruto to the Ledge before hitting the button

You can shoot the Gold Skulltula on the wall before pressing the button if you’d like. The water should raise and allow you to cross over to Ruto’s side.

Keep carrying her down the hallway, shooting yet another ceiling switch in the process.

Take Princess Ruto up the Elevator

In the next room, you can either swim under the tunnel to get to a Deku Scrub who is selling Deku Nuts, or just go up the elevator. Wait until the elevator comes down, then jump onto it and ride up to the next level (with Ruto).

Go past the room with the holes into a fork in the road (so to speak). Your ultimate goal is to kill the tentacle that is blocking that hole on the left (the green tentacle). We’ll need to kill a couple other tentacles first.

Back in the room with holes, carefully make your way to the far hallway and through the door

Enter the 5-pronged Fork room and get the Boomerang

This area is shaped like a giant 5 pronged fork. If you’re counting left to right, 1-5, you will go all the way right (room #5) first. Go to the right and step on the switch and the door should open. Drop Ruto on the switch to hold it down. You must kill all the monsters on the floor.

I would suggest using Deku Nuts to stun the floor-stingray-things so they pop up faster (then you can hit them with your slingshot twice). Alternatively you could wait until they pop up (get close to them) and use your sword charge attack when they dive bomb you.

Find the boomerang after killing all the monsters on the floor

The Boomerang will appear in a treasure chest. Leave this room, and go back to the fork in the road. You might need to go back to the main room to get Princess Ruto.

You might need to get Princess Ruto from the main room

Get the map in room #1 (left)

Once back at the fork, (numbered 1-5 left to right), I would go to the #1 room (all the way left, basically opposite of where the Boomerang was). Go to the left and step on the switch that doesn’t stay down. Place Ruto on this switch. Then walk through the door that unlocks.

Lock onto the tentacle with your boomerang and hit it several times

Lock on to the tentacle’s weak spot and fire your boomerang at it. Keep doing this until it is dead. Get the map from the chest that appears.

Get the compass in room #2 (2nd from left)

If you want to grab the Compass (optional), head back out and then immediately turn left to room #2 (closest room to the Map room). You have to kill a bunch of bubbles within 30 seconds to get the Compass.

Quickly destroy all these bubbles to get the compass

Kill the last two tentacles (#4 then #3)

Now you can head to room #4 (the 2nd room from the right in the fork). This will be another tentacle room, so use your tentacle-boomerang skills to destroy this one as well. This tentacle was blocking the middle room (room #3).

Head over to room #3 (the middle path in the big fork), and kill the final tentacle.

Fall down the hole in the main hole room

This will unlock the hole that you need to fall through in he main room with all the holes. Head out of the fork and then fall through the hole just to the right.

Fall through the hole to the right, which is now unblocked

Be sure to grab the double Gold Skulltulas with your Boomerang

Grab Ruto again and go through the cave and through the door. Throw Ruto on the platform so she can get her nice blue gem… Hey wait, I wanted that.

Mini-boss: Big Octo

When Big Octo appears, throw your boomerang at him to stun him.

Stun Big Octo and hit his back side for massive damage

Then hit him with your sword. You may have to do this many times.

Strategy: Big Octo will randomly either run away from you or towards you after stunning. But he will always run away from you after hitting you. Taking damage might be worth it to have a guaranteed facing-away stun afterwards where you can actually hit his backside with your sword.

Hit wobbly platforms with Boomerang

Jump on the lowered platform and ride it to the top. Now walk to the end of the hallway, go to the next room, where you find the huge moving wobbling things. Hit them with the boomerang to stun them. Now you can jump on them, so jump over to the other hallway and open the door.

Hit these wobbly platforms with your boomerang to stun them

Now jump over to the other platform, which will move downwards.

Put box on switch

Now you can access another switch. This one won’t stay down, either, so find one of the small crates nearby. Now place it on the switch, and walk through the door.

After going down the elevator, take one of these boxes and place it on the switch

Climb up the platform to the right. There is a Gold Skulltula on the far side of the vines if you’d like to collect it. When you get to the top, go to the ledge with the glass.

Lock onto switch with Boomerang

Lock on to the switch that you should see, and move close to the left edge of the platform. Fire your boomerang. It should move to the side of the glass and hit the switch. Now the door opens, so go through it.

Lock onto this switch and throw your boomerang to open the door

Boss: Barinade

This is the tough part.

This boss can be divided into a few phases.

Phase 1: Tentacles on top Aim for the tentacles and keep going around in circles. After killing all the tentacles on top, you can hit stun Barinade with a boomerang and hit it a few times, before it moves into another phase.

Lock on to the tentacles with the boomerang and destroy them all, and then stun the body and hit it with your sword

Phase 2: The jellyfish Now you have to try to stun the body (might need to wait until the boss calms down), and then kill all the floating jellyfish. Once you do that, you can stun and hit the body again a few times.

Now you'll need to wait until it calms down a bit, and then stun the body with your boomerang and then kill the jellyfish with your boomerang — Now you’ll need to wait until it calms down a bit, and then stun the body with your boomerang and then kill the jellyfish with your boomerang

Phase 3: The lasers Now you will need to wait until it stops shooting you with lasers, and then stun it with the boomerang again and hit it.

Wait until the lasers stop, and then stun it again and hit it some more

After finally defeating Barinade, you’ll walk into the light with Princess Ruto.

Sorry, what was your name, Princess Rude-oh?

Now that you have all three spiritual stones, you should make your way back to Hyrule Castle to tell Princess Zelda!

After the Dungeon

After you beat Jabu Jabu’s dungeon, there’s a few nice things to grab on the way back to Hyrule Castle.

First, there’s a Great Fairy Fountain right inside Zora’s Fountain (near Jabu Jabu). You should see some rocks on a platform on the Southeast side of Zora’s Fountain. You will get a teleport spell, Farore’s Wind. Pretty nifty. There’s also a gold Skulltula if you roll into a tree on that little island as well.

Blow up this wall to reveal a Great Fairy Fountain

On the way out of Zora’s Domain, just outside of the waterfall, you can grab a Heart Piece sitting on the ledge with your Boomerang.

Grab this Heart Piece with your Boomerang

Also, be sure to buy your Magic Beans from the Magic Bean guy (in fact, you can plant one right there as well)

Now, let’s head to Hyrule Castle to bring the Spiritual Stones to Princess Zelda!

Jabu-Jabu's Belly ✓ Completed