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Nacrene City (Japanese: シッポウシティ Shippou City) is a city in southeastern Unova. It is the location for the second Gym that the player visits in the region.
Nacrene City is described as having a peculiar cityscape, as it reuses its warehouses built about a century ago.
Places of interest
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Nacrene Museum
A museum showing various historical treasures, most prominently a skeleton of a Dragon-type Pokémon (resembling Dragonite), is located in Nacrene City. At the back of the museum there is a library room which also operates as the Nacrene Gym. There is also a meteorite exhibit that will change Deoxys's Forme when examined. By talking to the woman on the right hand desk inside, the player can restore fossils.
Nacrene Gym
- Main article: Nacrene Gym
The Nacrene Gym is the official Gym of Nacrene City. It is based on Template:Type2 Pokémon. The Gym Leader is Lenora. The Nacrene City Gym is a Gym consisting of a library that require Trainers to find the right answers to opponents' questions through the readable books, before engaging them in battle. For defeating Lenora, Trainers receive the Basic Badge and TM67 (Retaliate).
Café Warehouse
Demographics
Nacrene City has a population of 50. It is among the Unova region's largest cities in terms of population.
Poké Mart
Items
Pokémon
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15
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Trade
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15
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Trade
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class="roundybottom" style="background: #Template:City color light; color: #000000" colspan="14" | A colored background means that the Pokémon can be found in this location in the specified game. A white background with a colored letter means that the Pokémon cannot be found here.
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Trainers
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Reward: $1300
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This battle will only occur after the trade for her Petilil has taken place.
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This battle will only occur after the trade for her Cottonee has taken place.
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In the anime
Nacrene City in the anime
Nacrene Museum in the anime
Nacrene City is shown to be a very colorful and artistic city in the anime with water fountains, stained glass windows and an unused railway track. The buildings and warehouses are painted in a variety of different colors. It is also shown to have a Pokémon Center and Battle Club. Weird things are also shown to be sold here.
In BW013, Jessie, James and TRMeowth ([[{{{2}}} (move)|{{{2}}}]]) arrived there, planning to go to the Nacrene Museum.
In BW014, Ash and his friends visited the Nacrene Museum looking for the Nacrene Gym which is closed. The Museum is quite a historical building and features a range of exhibits such as fossils, skeletons, knight's armor and tombs. Hawes is the vice-curator of the museum. Near the back is a library where the gym's entrance is. There was a Yamask causing havoc in the museum.
In BW015, Ash battled Lenora in the gym, but was defeated; Team Rocket stole a meteorite from the museum, replacing it with a dummy.
In BW016, Ash had rematch against Lenora and finally won. Its last appearance was in BW017 where Team Rocket got orders by Flint to visit Professor Seger. They went there and he examined the meteorite which was shown to have materials found nowhere on earth.
Trivia
- Nacrene's Japanese motto is シッポウは 七つの 宝物.
- 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 the Pinwheel Forest.
- Nacrene City shares its Japanese name, Shippou, with Sevault Canyon in the Sevii Islands.
Name origin
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Name
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Japanese
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シッポウシティ Shippou City
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七宝 shippō, both the seven treasures (gold, silver, pearls, agate, crystal, coral, and lapis lazuli) and a mon that uses interlocking circles in such a way that the intersections resemble flowers (example).
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English
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Nacrene City
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From nacreous cloud, polar clouds that have iridescent luster. Also from nacre (mother of pearl).
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French
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Maillard
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Possibly a reference to Maillard reaction, a type of nonenzymatic browning process that produces a diverse range of odors and flavors.
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German
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Septerna City
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From the Latin septem (seven).
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Italian
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Zefiropoli
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From zefiro, an Italian name for Poniente.
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Spanish
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Ciudad Esmalte
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From esmalte, vitreous enamel.
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Chinese (Mandarin)
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七寶市 Qībǎo Shì
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From 七宝 shippō. Literally means "seven treasures", possibly referencing the seven treasures in Buddhist scripture.
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