Futaba Town redirects here. For the anime-exclusive town with the same Japanese name, see Foothill Town.
Twinleaf Town
フタバタウン Futaba Town
"Fresh and Free!"
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Map description
A small town with the fresh scent of new leaves in the air. It feels like a place where adventures start. Your own home and your best friend's house are located here.
Twinleaf Town (Japanese: フタバタウンFutaba Town) is situated in the southwestern part of the Sinnohregion. It is here that the protagonist of the Generation IV games Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum, and several other notable Trainers begin their Pokémon journeys. Twinleaf is the hometown of the player and their rival, Barry, and the first town known to the player in the games. It is also the nearest town to Lake Verity, referred to by residents as their local lake. North of the town lies Route 201, a junction which leads to Verity Lakefront to the west, and Sandgem Town to the east.
In the southern borderline of trees of the town sits a small pond where an Odd Keystone can be found, where the player can surf to reach it.
This is the house where the player lives before beginning their journey. The player's mother lives here, and after the player has left town for the first time, going home and talking to her will fully rest/restore all of the player's Pokémon, just like a Pokémon Center.
There are two levels to the house, the first being a living room and kitchen area, while upstairs on the second level is the player's bedroom. It contains a Wii controlled with a Wii Remote, connected to a television, and a PC which reads: "Pokémon Basics... People live alongside Pokémon in this world. The people that battle Pokémon are called Pokémon Trainers." Due to the PC no longer having the item storage functionality, Lucas or Dawn's PC only gives hints on how to play the game. A sign on the wall next to the stairs reads:
The X Button
opens the menu!
The player's bedroom is located upstairs. The player begins the game in here
Rival's house
This is the house where the player's rival and his mother reside in. Like the player's house, there are two levels, the first being a living room and kitchen area, while upstairs on the second level is the rival's bedroom.
class="roundybottom" style="background: #Template:Town color light; color: #000000" colspan="14" | A colored background means that the Pokémon can be found in this location in the specified game. A white background with a colored letter means that the Pokémon cannot be found here.
The town was shown again in Memories are Made of Bliss!, where the group arrived there after resuming their journey through Sinnoh. At the end of the episode, Ash and Brock boarded a ship sailing towards the Kantoregion. As observed by Ash, Twinleaf Town is very similar to Pallet Town, having dirt trails and wide, open grass fields.
In I Choose You!, which is set in an alternate continuity from the main anime, Twinleaf Town is the hometown of Verity.
Twinleaf Town is the hometown of Diamond, Johanna who is Diamond's mother, Pearl, and supposedly Palmer, who is Pearl's father. The town itself features only once in the Diamond & Pearl arc, when Diamond returned to collect a new set of clothes from his home, before rushing to Lake Verity to find Johanna. It made a cameo at the end of HeartGold & SoulSilver arc.
According to Rad Rickshaw, koshipikari rice (a portmanteau of koshihikari and pika) can only be found here.
Trivia
In Pokémon Platinum, footprints can be seen after walking on the snow, but bicycle tracks cannot.
In Pokémon Platinum, a rearranged, music-box version of the background music of Twinleaf Town can be played on the Music Box that can be obtained at the Villa in the Resort Area.
Despite the player's and the rival's houses having two chimneys, neither of the houses have a fireplace.
The roads of this town form the kanji 土 (earth, soil).
Name origin
Language
Name
Origin
Japanese
フタバタウン Futaba Town
From 双葉 / 二葉 futaba (sprout, cotyledon, a set of two leaves)
English
Twinleaf Town
Literal translation of Japanese name
French
Bonaugure
From bon augure, good omen
German
Zweiblattdorf
From Zwei (two), Blatt (leaf), and the suffix -dorf (village)