Celadon City
Celadon City (Japanese: タマムシシティ Tamamushi City) is located in central Kanto. It is one of the largest cities in Kanto, second only to the giant Saffron City in the east. It is home to Erika, the Celadon City Gym Leader.
Places of interest
Celadon Department Store
On the east side of town, a decorative fountain rests before the large Celadon Dept. Store.
Celadon Gym
- Main article: Celadon Gym
Celadon Mansion
Next to the town's Pokémon Center is the Celadon Mansion, where staff members of Game Freak rent a room from an old lady.
Game Corner
- Main article: Rocket Game Corner
The southern part of the city caters to travelers and tourists. In addition to a hotel and a restaurant, the Game Corner is a popular spot. The citizens take pride in the city's beauty and think the casino is bad for their image.
The Rocket Game Corner sold very rare Pokémon such as Dratini and Porygon in exchange for coins.
In the Generation I games, the player must go into the underbelly of the Game Corner and defeat Team Rocket. In Generation II, it has been renamed the Celadon Game Corner and is no longer run by Team Rocket.
Perfume Shop
Attached to the Celadon Gym is a perfume shop, run by Erika herself.
In the anime, Ash Ketchum expressed disgust at the fragrances and was banned from the perfume shop and thus the Gym.
Scissor Street
Scissor Street, famous for its Pokémon Breeders, including Suzy, is also located here.
Pokémon that appear in Celadon City
Wild Pokémon can be found in a lake in the center of the city.
Generation I
| Name | Games | Location | Levels | Rate | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poliwhirl | R | B | Fishing | 23 | 50% | |
| Slowpoke | R | B | Fishing | 15 | 50% | |
| Goldeen | Y | Fishing | 5-20 | 100% | ||
Generation II
Generation III
Name origin
Celadon is a light green color, as well as a style of pottery developed in medieval China, Japan, and Korea. Tamamushi iro (玉虫色) refers to the iridescent colors of the jewel beetle. Jewel beetles reflect a rainbow of colors, most noticeably green.
Trivia
- In Chikorita's Big Upset, it is mentioned that Celadon City has a university, where the episode's Nurse Joy studied Pokémon psychology. In a later episode it is revealed that Professor Oak used to teach there. In Pokémon Special, the university is where Erika teaches on top of her Gym duties.
- Celadon City has a population of 70 people, if Team Rocket members are not included.
- In Generation I, there was an invisible PC in the hotel, this fact is explained by the close resemblance between the hotel and a Pokémon Center. This was less a glitch, and more likely an oversight by the programmers, who may have forgotten to remove the code to activate the PC at that particular point, though the sprite of the PC itself is no longer there.
