Water route

A sea route or water route (Japanese: 水道 water route), is a route that crosses a body of water, and may be made up nearly entirely of water, with only a few islands. Sea routes typically begin to appear late in the game.

Sea routes usually require the use of the HM field move Surf for traversal, or in later games, the Poké Ride Lapras Paddle or Sharpedo Jet^SMUSUM, the Secret Technique Sea Skim^PE or the Pokétch's Hidden Moves App^BDSP. In games starting from Generation VIII (excluding remakes), there are no specific water routes, with bodies of water present directly in the open world setting.

Characteristics

Sea routes are often among the longest routes in the games, often densely-populated with Swimmers who use Water-type Pokémon. Unlike land routes, wild Pokémon can attack the player on sea routes at any time. Typically, Tentacool and Tentacruel are common sights.

Some sea routes in Johto have whirlpools blocking the way, while some in Hoenn have spots where it is deep enough to dive underwater. Certain sea routes also contain currents which force the player to move in a single direction.

List of sea routes

The following is a list of sea routes in the Pokémon world. This list includes those routes which are numbered sequentially in a region as well as those which do not have numbers, but names instead, and help to link between numbered routes.

Numbered sea routes

Route		Termini				Notes
English	Japanese	North	East	West	South
Kanto
Kanto Route 19	カントーの １９ばんすいどう Kanto Water Route 19	Fuchsia City			Route 20	None
Kanto Route 20	カントーの ２０ばんすいどう Kanto Water Route 20		Route 19	Cinnabar Island		None
Kanto Route 21	カントーの ２１ばんすいどう Kanto Water Route 21	Pallet Town			Cinnabar Island	None
Johto
Johto Route 40	ジョウトの ４０ばんすいどう Johto Water Route 40	Olivine City			Route 41	None
Johto Route 41	ジョウトの ４１ばんすいどう Johto Water Route 41		Route 40	Cianwood City		Location of the Whirl Islands.
Hoenn
Hoenn Route 105	ホウエンの １０５番水道 Hoenn Water Route 105	Route 104			Route 106	Contains underwater areas.E
Hoenn Route 106	ホウエンの １０６番水道 Hoenn Water Route 106	Route 105			Dewford Town	Location of Granite Cave.
Hoenn Route 107	ホウエンの １０７番水道 Hoenn Water Route 107		Route 108	Dewford Town		Contains underwater areas.ORAS
Hoenn Route 108	ホウエンの １０８番水道 Hoenn Water Route 108		Route 109	Route 107		Location of the Abandoned ShipRSE/Sea MauvilleORAS.
Hoenn Route 109	ホウエンの １０９番水道 Hoenn Water Route 109	Slateport City		Route 108		None
Hoenn Route 122	ホウエンの １２２番水道 Hoenn Water Route 122	Route 121			Route 123	Location of Mt. Pyre.
Hoenn Route 124	ホウエンの １２４番水道 Hoenn Water Route 124		Mossdeep City	Lilycove City	Route 126	Contains underwater areas.
Hoenn Route 125	ホウエンの １２５番水道 Hoenn Water Route 125	Shoal Cave			Mossdeep City	Contains underwater areas.E
Hoenn Route 126	ホウエンの １２６番水道 Hoenn Water Route 126	Route 124	Route 127			Contains underwater areas, entrance to Sootopolis City.
Hoenn Route 127	ホウエンの １２７番水道 Hoenn Water Route 127	Mossdeep City		Route 126	Route 128	Contains underwater areas.
Hoenn Route 128	ホウエンの １２８番水道 Hoenn Water Route 128	Route 128	Ever Grande City		Route 129	Contains underwater areas, entrance to Seafloor Cavern.
Hoenn Route 129	ホウエンの １２９番水道 Hoenn Water Route 129	Route 128		Route 130		Contains underwater areas.EORAS
Hoenn Route 130	ホウエンの １３０番水道 Hoenn Water Route 130		Route 129	Route 131		Location of Mirage Island. Contains underwater areas.ORAS
Hoenn Route 131	ホウエンの １３１番水道 Hoenn Water Route 131		Route 130	Pacifidlog Town		Location of Sky Pillar.
Hoenn Route 132	ホウエンの １３２番水道 Hoenn Water Route 132		Pacifidlog Town	Route 133		None
Hoenn Route 133	ホウエンの １３３番水道 Hoenn Water Route 133		Route 132	Route 134		None
Hoenn Route 134	ホウエンの １３４番水道 Hoenn Water Route 134		Route 133	Slateport City		Contains underwater areas. Location of Sealed Chamber.
Sinnoh
Sinnoh Route 220	シンオウの ２２０ばんすいどう Sinnoh Water Route 220	Route 219	Route 221			None
Sinnoh Route 223	シンオウの ２２３ばんすいどう Sinnoh Water Route 223	Pokémon League (Sinnoh)			Sunyshore City	None
Battle Zone
Sinnoh Route 226	シンオウの ２２６ばんすいどう Sinnoh Water Route 226	Route 227	Route 228	Survival Area		Location of Meister.
Sinnoh Route 230	シンオウの ２３０ばんすいどう Sinnoh Water Route 230		Route 229	Fight Area		Only accessible after obtaining the National Pokédex and visiting the Battle ParkDP/Battle FrontierPt.
Unova
Unova Route 17	イッシュの １７番水道 Unova Water Route 17		Route 1	Route 18		Unova's only sea route in Black and White.
Unova Route 21	イッシュの ２１番水道 Unova Water Route 21	Humilau City			Seaside Cave	None
Alola
Alola Route 15	アローラの １5番水道 Alola Water Route 15	Route 16			Tapu Village

Named sea routes

Route		Termini				Notes
English	Japanese	North	East	West	South
Sevii Islands
Water Labyrinth	みずのめいろ Water Maze	Resort Gorgeous			Five Island (town)	None
Resort Gorgeous	ゴージャスリゾート Gorgeous Resort		Lost Cave		Water Labyrinth	None
Outcast Island	はずれのしま Outskirt Island	Altering Cave			Green Path	None
Water Path	みずのさんぽみち Water Promenade	Green Path		Six Island (town)	Ruin Valley	None
Tanoby Ruins	アスカナいせき Asukana Ruins	Sevault Canyon				None
Kalos
Azure Bay	アズール湾 Azure Bay				Route 12	Location of Sea Spirit's Den

In other languages

Language Title Chinese Cantonese 水路 Séuilouh Mandarin 水路 Shuǐlù Czech Vodní stezka Finnish Meritie* / Vesireitti* French Chenal* / Voie d’eau* German Wasserweg Wasserroute Italian Percorso acquatico Korean 수로 Sulo Brazilian Portuguese Canal Marinho* Rota Marítima* Estrada Aquática* Spanish Vía marítima Vietnamese Đường thủy

This article is part of Project Routes, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on every route in the Pokémon world.