Petalburg City

Petalburg City (Japanese: Touka CityPokémon Center Original Souvenir Jacket pokémon time Rayquaza (Daisuki Club, Amazon)) is located in southwestern Hoenn. Despite Petalburg being the first city with a Gym, the Gym is not accessible until after obtaining four Badges. Norman, the father of the s, is also the Petalburg Gym Leader.
East of Petalburg City is and Oldale Town. To the west is where Mr. Briney's Cottage and the Petalburg Woods are found.
When a player first arrives at this city, they are prevented from heading out into Route 104 until they go to the Gym and talk to Norman. A boy named Wally will come in asking for help to catch a Pokémon. Using , a Pokémon Norman lends, and the player's support, Wally catches his first Pokémon: a . 
In Generation III, the Pokémon Center has a man near the PC who will let players put key words on their s.
==Slogan==
Where people mingle with nature. (Japanese: The city where people mingle with nature.)
==Places of interest==
===Wally's house===
Wally's house is located in the west section of the town, next door to the Gym. Wally, the main rival of Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald, and his family live here. It cannot be visited until after the player has helped Wally catch a Pokémon. After defeating Petalburg Gym, Wally's family will give the player .
===Petalburg Gym===
The Petalburg Gym is the official Gym of Petalburg City. It is based on . The Gym Leader is Norman. Norman is the father of the in , and . He uses Normal Pokémon and gives out the . Between the entrance and Gym Leader Norman are a series of rooms, each containing a Trainer. The Trainers have special ways to battle, as displayed on the doors leading to their rooms. Once three rooms in a row are completed, they can access the Gym Leader Room with Norman. When defeated, Norman will give the player the Balance Badge as well as or as a reward.
==Role==
===Delta Episode===
During the Delta Episode, after Zinnia has stolen the neighbor /'s Mega Bracelet from them in their house, Courtney/Matt is here trying to steal Wally's Key Stone from him outside his house, despite Wally insisting he doesn't have it anymore. Upon seeing the player, the villainous team admin decides to battle the player in order to take their Key Stone instead. Upon defeating villainous team admin, they say they are going to head to Meteor Falls.
After the battle, the player receives an Entry Call on their PokéNav Plus from , and requests that the player meet him at the Devon Corporation in Rustboro City to discuss some urgent business.
==Demographics==
===Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald===
In and the population of Petalburg City is 30. Compared to other Hoenn towns and cities Petalburg City is an average-sized city.
===Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire===
In , Petalburg City has a total population of 26.
==Poké Mart==
==Items==
==Pokémon==
===Generation III===
===Generation VI===
==Trainers==
===Pokémon Omega Ruby===
| style="margin: auto;" |
===Pokémon Alpha Sapphire===
| style="margin: auto;" |
==Appearance==
 	 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	 
==Music==
Games	Situation 	Song name (Japanese) 	Song name (English) 	Composition 	Arrangement
 	Overworld 	トウカシティ 	Petalburg City 	Morikazu Aoki 	Morikazu Aoki
 	Overworld 	トウカシティ 	Petalburg City 	Morikazu Aoki 	Minako Adachi
 	When Norman and Wally's dad are chatting	いつか来た道 	A Path We All Must Walk 	Shota Kageyama	Shota Kageyama
 	When encountering Courtney/Matt 	一触即発！～赤やら、青やら 	Explosive Encounters! Red and Blue	Shota Kageyama	Shota Kageyama
 	When battling Courtney/Matt 	戦闘！アクア団・マグマ団 	Battle! (Team Aqua / Team Magma) 	Junichi Masuda	Shota Kageyama
 	After defeating Courtney/Matt 	アクア団・マグマ団に勝利！ 	Victory! (Team Aqua / Team Magma) 	Go Ichinose 	Minako Adachi
==In animation==
===Pokémon the Series===
In , Petalburg City is the hometown of Norman and Caroline, and their children and Max. It has a sister city to the north of it, called North Petalburg, where the citizens are obsessed with Norman and his family.
========
 and May first arrived there in There's no Place Like Hoenn. After meeting up with May's family and having an unofficial at the local Gym, which Norman won, Ash left together with May and Max. They returned to Petalburg City in Love, Petalburg Style!, where they had a confrontation with . Ash had an official Gym battle with Norman in the following episode. He was successful in defeating Norman this time, earning the .
May and Max returned home in The Scheme Team, following May's participation in the Hoenn Grand Festival and Ash's efforts in the Ever Grande Conference. By The Right Place and the Right Mime, both May and Max had left home again to rejoin Ash in the Kanto region. However, May left behind her and to keep her mother company. In Home is Where the Start Is!, following Ash's victory at the and May's participation in the Kanto Grand Festival, May and Max headed back to Petalburg, where Max would go on to stay at his father's Gym, while May soon departed to Johto alone in order to participate in the local Pokémon Contests.
==In the manga==
===Pokémon Adventures===
========
In Nixing Nuzleaf, arrived in Petalburg City. After defeating a group of wild Pokémon trying to attack him, he discovered , whose attempts to one of them had caused them to be startled. Ruby offered to help him catch a Pokémon, but Wally told him that someone else was already coming to help him do that. Said person turned out to be Norman, much to Ruby's horror, as he was trying to avoid his father after running away from home to participate in Pokémon Contests. Wally asked Norman to teach him how to catch Pokémon, but Norman refused, since he hadn't been informed of Wally's illness before he had made his promise.
In Brushing Past Breloom, after Ruby had escaped his father's detection and taken Wally back home, Wally told him that his parents didn't want him to catch a Pokémon, so they must've told Norman to refuse helping him. Angered by this, Ruby took Wally to Petalburg Woods to teach him how to catch himself a Pokémon.
In Lombre Larceny, helped to free Mr. Stone's Castform after it had gotten stuck in a fountain in Petalburg City. Shelly, Matt, and of Team Aqua, who had sabotaged the fountain on purpose in order to secretly steal the Devon Parts that Mr. Stone was carrying while "saving" Castform, decided to abandon stealth and directly attacked Mr. Stone, escaping with the parts while Sapphire pursued them to Petalburg Woods.
==Trivia==
*In , , a female NPC in the city claims that Norman (and, indirectly, the rest of his family, which includes the ) moved to Hoenn from Johto.
**In , the NPC instead simply says that Norman came from "somewhere far away".
**In the Pokémon World Tournament in , Norman says that he is from Olivine City.
===Name origin===
Language 	Name 	Origin
Japanese 	トウカシティ Touka City 	From 橙花 tōka () or 頭花 tōka (flower head)
English, Danish 	Petalburg City 	From and placename suffix
German 	Blütenburg City 	From Blüten (blossoms) and the suffix -burg (castle)
Spanish 	Ciudad Petalia 	From pétalo (petal)
Spanish 	Ciudad Petalburgo 	From its English name
French 	Clémenti-ville 	From clémentine () and ville (city)
Italian 	Petalipoli 	From petalo (petal) and the suffix -poli (city)
Korean 	등화도시 Deunghwa Dosi 	From 등화 (橙花) deunghwa (orange blossom)
Korean 	등화시티 Deunghwa City 	From 등화 (橙花) deunghwa (orange blossom)
Chinese () 	橙華市 / 橙华市 Chénghuá Shì 	From 橙 chéng / cháang (orange) and 華 / 华 huá / wàh (flowery, splendor)
Chinese () 	橙華市 Cháangwàh Síh 	From 橙 chéng / cháang (orange) and 華 / 华 huá / wàh (flowery, splendor)
Norwegian 	Petalburg-by 	From its English name
Polish 	Petalburg 	From its English name
Braziian Portuguese	Cidade de Petalburg 	From its English name
Russian 	Петалбург Сити Petalburg Siti	Transcription of its English name
Swedish 	Petalburg-staden 	From its English name
Vietnamese 	Thành phố Touka 	Transcription of its Japanese name
==References==
==Related articles==
Category:Ruby and Sapphire locations
Category:Emerald locations
Category:Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire locations
Category:Cities
de:Blütenburg City
es:Ciudad Petalia
fr:Clémenti-Ville
it:Petalipoli
ja:トウカシティ
zh:橙华市