Twinleaf Town

Twinleaf Town (Japanese: フタバタウン Futaba Town) is situated in the southwestern part of the Sinnoh region. It is the hometown of the Sinnohan player character and their rival, , 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 , 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 to reach it.
==Slogan==
Fresh and Free! (Japanese: Where new leaves breathe.)
==Places of interest==
===Player's house===
This is the house where the 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 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, or 's PC only gives hints on how to play the game. A sign on the wall next to the stairs reads:
===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==
===Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, Platinum, Brilliant Diamond, and Shining Pearl===
The population of Twinleaf Town is 8 (excluding the and their rival), making it the least populated town in Sinnoh.
==Items==
==Pokémon==
===Generation IV===
===Generation VIII===
==Gallery==
===Artwork===
Concept art from
==Appearance==
 	 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	 
==Music==
Games	Situation 	Song name (Japanese) 	Song name (English) 	Composition	Arrangement
 	Overworld (Day) 	フタバタウン (昼) 	Twinleaf Town (Day) 	Hitomi Sato	Hitomi Sato
 	Overworld (Night) 	フタバタウン (夜) 	Twinleaf Town (Night) 	Hitomi Sato	Hitomi Sato
 	Watching TV at start of game	とくべつばんぐみ「あかいギャラドスをおえ！」 	Special Report: "Search for the Red Gyarados!"	Go Ichinose	Go Ichinose
 	Watching TV at start of game	特別番組「ナナカマド博士に聞く」 	Special Program: "Let's Ask Prof. Rowan!" 	Hitomi Sato	Hitomi Sato
 	When encountering 	ライバル 	Rival 	Go Ichinose	Go Ichinose
==In animation==
===Pokémon the Series===
Twinleaf is the hometown of , Johanna, , , and Palmer. Izzy, Cara, and Sayer also live here.
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Twinleaf Town 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 first partner Pokémon and begin her . Her mother Johanna, a former Top Coordinator, offers a course in town for young s. 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.
 and arrived to Twinleaf Town 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 Barry's father and Sinnoh 's , Palmer. However, the Frontier Brain proved to be much stronger than him and defeated him. During the festival, Twinleaf was also visited by , who gave a lecture on "the interrelation of and Evolution 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 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 DPS01, Dawn chose to leave Twinleaf as well and compete in Pokémon Contests in Hoenn.
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In The Gates of Warp!, Dawn and Goh visited an alternate universe version of Twinleaf Town, where they met Dawn's alternate world counterpart, who is an accomplished who had achieved the runner-up placement in the Sinnoh League . The three then headed to Sandgem Town together.
====Gallery====
's	Twinleaf Auditorium
 	
===I Choose You!===
In I Choose You!, which is set in an alternate continuity from the , Twinleaf Town is the hometown of Verity.
==In the manga==
===Pokémon Adventures===
Twinleaf Town is the hometown of , his mother Johanna, , and supposedly his father Palmer. According to Rad Rickshaw, koshipikari rice (a of and pika) can only be found here.
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In Stopping Sableye, Diamond returned to Twinleaf Town on his way to protect at Lake Verity from Team Galactic. As he stopped by at his home, he found a note left by his mother, informing him that she had left to gather at Lake Verity. Alarmed, Diamond immediately headed to the lake to alert his mother of the impending danger.
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Twinleaf Town made a cameo in All About Arceus IX, depicting the beginning of the Diamond & Pearl arc from Johanna's perspective.
==Trivia==
* In , footprints can be seen after walking on the snow, but bicycle tracks cannot.
* In , 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, , a set of two leaves)
English 	Twinleaf Town 	From twin and leaf
German 	Zweiblattdorf 	From zwei (two), Blatt (leaf), and the suffix -dorf (village)
Spanish 	Pueblo Hojaverde 	From hoja verde (green leaf)
Spanish 	Pueblo Hojas Gemelas 	From hojas (leaves) and gemelas (twin)
French 	Bonaugure 	From bon augure (good omen)
Italian 	Duefoglie 	From due foglie (two leaves)
Korean 	떡잎마을 Tteogip Maeul 	From 떡잎 tteogip (cotyledon)
Chinese () 	雙葉鎮 / 双叶镇 Shuāngyè Zhèn 	From 雙葉 / 双叶 shuāngyè / sēungyihp (double leaves)
Chinese () 	雙葉鎮 Sēungyihp Jan 	From 雙葉 / 双叶 shuāngyè / sēungyihp (double leaves)
Polish 	Twinleaf 	From its English name
Brazilian Portuguese	Cidade de Twinleaf 	From its English name
European Portuguese 	Aldeia da Folha Verde 	Direct translation of its Spanish name
Vietnamese 	Thị trấn Futaba 	Transcription of its Japanese name
==Related articles==
Category:Sinnoh locations
Category:Diamond and Pearl locations
Category:Platinum locations
Category:Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl locations
Category:Towns
Category:Hometowns
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