Nacrene City

Nacrene City (Japanese: シッポウシティ Shippou City) is a city in southeastern Unova, connected to to the east and bordering Pinwheel Forest to the west. In , it is the location for the second Gym that the visits in the region, led by Lenora.
Nacrene City is described as having a peculiar cityscape, as it reuses its warehouses built about a century ago. According to the Pokémon Adventures , the unique cityscape makes it a popular place for avant-garde artists and is usually the place where trends begin. Due to this, Nacrene City is called the "city of art". Castelia City's Gym Leader Burgh is a renowned artist whose hometown is Nacrene City. Nacrene City houses the Nacrene Museum which happens to include the Nacrene Gym.
==Slogan==
A Pearl of a Place (Japanese: Shippou is the Seven Treasures.)
==Places of interest==
===Nacrene Museum===
A museum showing various historical treasures is located at the heart of Nacrene City. Upon entering the museum, the player may talk to the woman on the right hand desk to restore Fossils. The ground floor of the Nacrene Museum is where all of its showcases are located, arranged symmetrically along the left and right sides of the walls. The museum's most prominent display is the skeleton of a Pokémon (resembling ), which is nestled at the center of the main exhibition room. Over to the left of the skeleton is an Fossil. There is a meteorite exhibit located above the Fossil that, when examined, can change into any of its four forms, depending on which one it is currently in. The Dark Stone or Light Stone is located here and initially regarded as an "ordinary old stone" before Lenora discovers what it actually is and gives it to the player. On the right side of the museum is an ancient tablet with an unknown script carved into it. Beneath this is a mask that was worn by ancient people at festivals, and three large bones that were once carried as weapons by a certain Pokémon (possibly or ). By ascending the flight of stairs at the back of the museum, the player can access a library room, which also operates as the Nacrene Gym.
In Pokémon Black 2 and White 2, the player can choose to obtain either a Plume Fossil or a Cover Fossil (neither of which are obtainable at Twist Mountain) from Lenora upon visiting the Nacrene Museum for the first time. A replica of the Dark Stone/Light Stone is now substituted in place of the real ones, which were originally given to the protagonist by Lenora in Black and White.
===Nacrene Gym===
The Nacrene Gym is the official Gym of Nacrene City. It is based on . The Gym Leader is Lenora. The Nacrene City Gym is a Gym consisting of a library that require s to find the right answers to opponents' questions through the readable books, before engaging them in battle. For defeating Lenora, Trainers receive the and .
In , Lenora has retired as a Gym Leader to focus on her research and the Gym has been changed into a library.
===Café Warehouse===
The Café Warehouse is a diner on the westernmost end of the city, just past the Nacrene Museum. The place has a special every Wednesday, where the player can receive a free Soda Pop. In , the player may also receive a free Lemonade every Saturday.
In Black 2 and White 2, on Sundays, the player may speak to a on the lower level of the café who offers the player a misplaced Grubby Hanky with the intention of it being returned to its owner. If the player accepts, the handkerchief can be returned to a customer with a who visits the café on Thursdays. After doing so, the player can speak to the Waitress again on a Sunday to receive a Fluffy Tail.
===Loblolly's studio===
Loblolly's studio is located in the southeast of Nacrene City. After visiting the at least once, Loblolly will talk about Décor that "people will dream of". Players may choose one of five pieces of Décor that will be unlocked in the Dream World the next time the Game Sync is used. Each day another piece may be chosen.
===Dye's house===
Dye's house is located in the southeastern side of Nacrene City. In it, Dye will offer to trade the player for in Black, and for in White. After trading with Dye and stopping Team Plasma at N's Castle, Dye will challenge the player to a battle in which she uses the evolved form of the or that the player traded to her.
In addition, downstairs in Dye's house, a woman will evaluate the friendship of the first Pokémon in the player's party.
===Battle item shop===
In the house west of the Pokémon Center, a man will sell battle items out of his house.
===Move Tutor===
In , a Move Tutor in the city will teach the player's Pokémon moves in exchange for six, eight, ten, or twelve Green Shards. In these games, he is the only Shard Move Tutor to not teach a special move, or to teach a move for less than 6 Shards.
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===Nacrene Gate===
The Nacrene Gate connects to Nacrene City. In Pokémon Black 2 and White 2, a in the Gate gives the player a Egg.
==Demographics==
===Black and White===
Nacrene City has a population of 51. It is among the Unova region's largest cities in terms of population.
===Black 2 and White 2===
Nacrene City's population increases to 54.
==Variable scoring==
An accordion track will be added to the background theme if the player is near a street performer west of the Gym, on the patio of the Café Warehouse.
==Poké Mart==
==Items==
==Pokémon==
===Pokémon Black and White===
===Pokémon Black 2 and White 2===
==Special encounters==
===Pokémon Black 2 and White 2===
A appears here after speaking to Professor Juniper in the Cave of Being. If defeated or run from, it respawns after entering the Hall of Fame.
==Trainers==
===Pokémon Black and White===
====First visit====
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==In animation==
===Pokémon the Series===
In , Nacrene City is shown to be a very colorful and artistic city with water fountains, stained glass windows and an unused railway track. The buildings and warehouses are painted in a variety of different colors. It was also shown to have a Battle Club. The famous Nacrene Museum houses many rare exhibits and also includes the city's library and Gym.
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In Minccino-Neat and Tidy!, arrived in the city, intending to go to the Nacrene Museum to steal the Meteonite under 's orders. They successfully hacked into the museum's security to steal the artifact in The Battle According to Lenora! and replaced it with a replica.
In A Night in the Nacrene City Museum!, and arrived at Nacrene City and visited the museum while looking for the Nacrene Gym. There, they found it to be closed due to it being haunted. The Museum's vice-curator Hawes revealed that the supernatural occurrences began last night. Lenora showed up in time and was able to calm down the that was causing havoc in the museum after its mask had been sealed away in a glass case.
In The Battle According to Lenora!, Ash battled Lenora in the Gym, but was defeated. After doing some special training with Don George at the local Battle Club, Ash returned for a rematch in Rematch at the Nacrene Gym!. He defeated Lenora with the help of his Pokémon's improved speed and some newly learned attacks, earning himself the .
In Scraggy-Hatched to be Wild!, Team Rocket received orders from Pierce to visit Dr. Zager. They went there, and he examined the Meteonite, which was found to contain materials of an extraterrestrial origin.
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==In the manga==
===Pokémon Adventures===
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Nacrene City first appeared in Wheeling and Dealing when and arrived there. After White had advertised her company, the BW Agency, at Café Warehouse, and Black had solved the case of a stolen accordion, the latter went to challenge Lenora at the Nacrene Gym in Battle at the Museum. While Black battled, White and the director of the BW Agency had a Xtransceiver call with the mayor of Nimbasa City, who was worried of his city's lowering tourism rates, and wanted White to help in inventing new attractions to solve the issue. White suggested establishing a Pokémon Musical, which the mayor thought to be an excellent idea.
In Defeating Stoutland, Black managed to defeat Lenora and earn himself the . As Black left, Lenora received a phone call from Clay, who told her about the mysterious item he had recently discovered at the Desert Resort, which was revealed to be the Dark Stone. In The Mystery of the Missing Fossil, the Nacrene Museum's Dragon Fossil was stolen by Team Plasma, but Black and Burgh were able to get it back.
In The Battle Within, most of Unova's Gym Leaders set up an ambush on Team Plasma in Nacrene City as they attempted to steal the Dark Stone from the museum. However, in Museum Showdown, the Gym Leaders were caught off-guard when the Shadow Triad unleashed the upon them, completely overwhelming them. In Finding Truth, Ghetsis tricked Black into revealing the Dark Stone's hiding place in the museum's basement, allowing him to steal it. The Gym Leaders who had tried to defend the museum were subsequently taken captive by Team Plasma, except for Brycen, who had managed to replace himself with an ice duplicate before being caught. It was then revealed that the museum had also been hiding the Light Stone, which Team Plasma had not been aware of. As Brycen saw the Light Stone rolling towards Black and thus choosing him as the Hero of Truth, he decided to take him to the Tubeline Bridge for a session.
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In Pink Slip, Nacrene City was revealed to be one of the settlements frozen over by the Plasma Frigate.
==In the TCG==
This listing is of cards mentioning or featuring Nacrene City in the Pokémon Trading Card Game.
==Music==
Games	Location 	Song name (Japanese)	Song name (English)	Composition	Arrangement	Variable Scoring
 	Everywhere	シッポウシティ 	Nacrene City 	Go Ichinose	Go Ichinose	Accordion track is added in when the player is near the NPC musician outside Café Warehouse
==Trivia==
* Nacrene City has a train track running through the south side of the city.
** However, it is nonfunctional, as there is no train visible and the track ends abruptly in Pinwheel Forest.
* Nacrene City shares its Japanese name, Shippou, with Sevault Canyon in the Sevii Islands.
* A boy in Nacrene City mentions that Dire Hit is called Dire Hit in Unova. This is a reference to the change in the Japanese name of Dire Hit from クリティカッター Criticutter to クリティカット Criticut, in order to make room for the number-level reference of Wonder Launcher items. Because "Dire Hit" is much shorter than the 12-character limit on English item names, this issue does not come up in the translated games.
* Due to having a variable level, Dye's Whimsicott/Lilligant can potentially be the highest-leveled Trainer-owned Pokémon outside of a battle facility. Depending on the level of the Cottonee/Petilil traded to her, the resulting Pokémon may be higher than 's in and Cynthia's in Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl (both of whom are at level 88) and can potentially reach all the way to level 100. This trait is shared with Kyle in the same games and Diana in .
** In addition, if the nicknames the Cottonee/Petilil that is traded to her, the nickname will carry over into the battle, making her the only Trainer to use a nicknamed Pokémon in battle, excluding the Pokémon World Tournament's Mix Tournament.
* Among the exhibits of the museum, there is an African mask, referring to a place in the real world, in addition to being different from other exhibitions, which are related to the history of the Pokémon.
===Name origin===
Language 	Name 	Origin
Japanese 	シッポウシティ Shippou City 	From 七宝文 shippō-mon (a consisting of ), 七宝 shippō (Saptaratna, the referenced in ), and 七宝焼 shippō-yaki ()
English 	Nacrene City 	From (polar clouds glowing with iridescent colors), which is derived from (mother of pearl)
German 	Septerna City 	From septem (Latin for seven)
Spanish 	Ciudad Esmalte 	From esmalte ()
French 	Maillard 	From maille (, an armor consisting of interlocking metal rings), émail (), and suffix -ard
Italian 	Zefiropoli 	From zefiro (, another name for ) and the suffix -poli (city)
Korean 	칠보시티 Chilbo City 	From 칠보문 (七寶紋) chilbo-mun (pattern consisting of overlapping circles) and 칠보 (七寶) chilbo (seven treasures)
Chinese () 	七寶市 / 七宝市 Qībǎo Shì 	From 七寶 / 七宝 qībǎo / chātbóu (seven treasures)
Chinese () 	七寶市 Chātbóu Síh 	From 七寶 / 七宝 qībǎo / chātbóu (seven treasures)
Polish 	Nacrene 	From its English name
Brazilian Portuguese	Cidade de Nacrene 	From its English name
Croatian 	Grada Nacrene 	From its English name
Vietnamese 	Thành phố Shippo 	Transcription of its Japanese name
==Related articles==
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