Twinleaf Town

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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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.
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Route 201
 
Twinleaf Town


Location
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Location of Twinleaf Town in Sinnoh.
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Gen I Gen II Gen III

Twinleaf Town (Japanese: フタバタウン Futaba Town) is situated in the southwestern part of the Sinnoh region. 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.

Slogan

Fresh and Free! (Japanese: わかばが いぶく ばしょ Where new leaves breathe.)

Places of interest

Player's house

Main article: Player's house → Sinnoh
 
Inside the player's house

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.


Demographics

 
Twinleaf Town in Diamond and Pearl

Pokémon Diamond, Pearl and Platinum

In Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum, Twinleaf Town has a population of 8 (excluding the player and rival), making it the least populated town in Sinnoh.

Items

Item Location Games
  Running Shoes Obtained from player's mother after receiving the starter Pokémon  D  P  Pt 
  Journal Obtained from player's mother after returning from Sandgem Town  D  P  Pt 
  Parcel Obtained from Barry's mother after returning from Sandgem Town  D  P  Pt 
  Odd Keystone In a tree along the left side of the pond (requires Surf) (hidden)  D  P  Pt 

Pokémon

Pokémon Games Location Levels Rate
Surfing
  Psyduck
D P Pt
  Surfing
20-40 90%
  Psyduck
D P Pt
  Surfing
20-30 90%
  Golduck
D P Pt
  Surfing
20-40 10%
Fishing
  Magikarp
D P Pt
  Fishing
Old Rod
3-10 100%
  Magikarp
D P Pt
  Fishing
Old Rod
3-15 100%
  Goldeen
D P Pt
  Fishing
Good Rod
10-25 45%
  Goldeen
D P Pt
  Fishing
Good Rod
15-35 45%
  Magikarp
D P Pt
  Fishing
Good Rod
10-25 55%
  Gyarados
D P Pt
  Fishing
Super Rod
30-55 55%
  Seaking
D P Pt
  Fishing
Super Rod
20-50 45%
  Seaking
D P Pt
  Fishing
Super Rod
30-55 45%
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.


In the anime

 
Twinleaf Town in the anime

In the anime, Twinleaf Town is the hometown of Dawn, her mother Johanna, and her childhood friend and rival Kenny, as well as Barry and his father Palmer. Izzy, Cara, and Sayer also live there. It first appeared in Following A Maiden's Voyage!, where Dawn left town to go to Professor Rowan's laboratory in Sandgem Town to receive her starter Pokémon and begin her journey. Top Coordinator Johanna offers a course in town for young Coordinators. She has a battlefield behind her house for instructing her students, where she teaches them about the basics of Pokémon Contests, and gives them performance tips and Contest Battle techniques. Noelle is one of her students.

Dawn returned for the town's annual festival in Strategy Begins at Home!. The group spent four episodes in Twinleaf, where they, together with Barry, participated in the Festival Battle Challenge. Ash eventually won the tournament, thus earning the chance to battle Palmer, the head of Sinnoh's Battle Tower. However, the Frontier Brain proved to be much stronger than him and defeated him. During the festival, Twinleaf was also visited by Professor Oak, who gave a lecture on "the interrelation of Pokémon and Evolutionary stones" at the town's auditorium.

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 Kanto region. 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.

Gallery

Dawn's house Twinleaf Auditorium
   

In the manga

In the Pokémon Adventures manga

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 (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)
Italian Duefoglie From due foglie, two leaves
Spanish Pueblo Hojaverde From hoja verde, green leaf
Pueblo Hojas Gemelas* Direct translation of English name
Korean 떡잎마을 Tteog-ip Maeul From 떡잎 tteog-ip, cotyledon
Chinese (Mandarin) 雙葉鎮 / 双叶镇 Shuāngyè Zhèn From 雙葉 / 双叶 shuāngyè, double leaves
Chinese (Cantonese) 雙葉鎮 Sēungyihp Jan From 雙葉 shuāngyè, double leaves
Polish Twinleaf From its English name
Portuguese Aldeia da Folha Verde Direct translation of Spanish name
Vietnamese Thị trấn Futaba Transliteration of Japanese name



Sinnoh
               
Settlements
Twinleaf TownSandgem TownJubilife CityOreburgh CityFloaroma TownEterna CityHearthome City
Solaceon TownVeilstone CityPastoria CityCelestic TownCanalave CitySnowpoint CitySunyshore City
Pokémon LeagueFight AreaSurvival AreaResort Area
Routes
201202203204205206207208209210211212213214215
216217218219220221222223224225226227228229230
Landmarks
Lake Verity (Lakefront) • Oreburgh GateOreburgh MineOreburgh Mining MuseumGlobal Terminal/Global Wonder Station
Ravaged PathFloaroma MeadowValley WindworksEterna ForestOld ChateauUnderground/Grand Underground
Wayward CaveMount CoronetAmity SquareLost TowerHallowed TowerSolaceon RuinsManiac TunnelLake Valor (Lakefront)
Great MarshPokémon MansionTrophy GardenFuego IronworksIron IslandLake Acuity (Lakefront) • Spear PillarVictory Road
Pal Park/Ramanas ParkContest HallBattle ZoneBattle ParkBattle Tower/Battle FrontierStark MountainSnowpoint Temple
Spring PathSendoff SpringTurnback CaveFullmoon IslandNewmoon IslandSeabreak PathFlower ParadiseHall of Origin
Access to
Distortion World
See also
Hisui


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