Cherrygrove City

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Cherrygrove City ヨシノシティ Yoshino City "The City of Fragrant Flowers"

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Map description A city where you can smell small flowers and a sea breeze.

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Connecting locations   ↑ Route 30   Cherrygrove City Route 29 →

Location Location of Cherrygrove City in Johto.

Other generation maps Gen II

Cherrygrove City (Japanese: ヨシノシティ Yoshino City) is located in south-central Johto. Though the city has no Gym, it is frequently passed through by Pokémon Trainers on their way to Violet City from New Bark Town via Route 29 in the east. The city acts mainly as a tutorial, introducing the player to the main tools of the game (the Pokémon Center, the Poké Mart, etc.).

Slogan

Generation II

The City of Cute, Fragrant Flowers (Japanese: かわいい　はなの　かおる　まち The city of cute, fragrant flowers.)

Generation IV

The City of Fragrant Flowers (Japanese: はなのかおり　ただよう　まち The city with a waft of fragrant flowers.)

Places of interest

City Tour

Guide Gent (Japanese: あんないじいさん Guide Old Man), who first stands near the east entrance of Cherrygrove City, will offer the player a tour of the city. The tour route includes the Pokémon Center, the Poké Mart, the exit to Route 30, the sea, and Guide Gent's house. Upon the conclusion of the tour, the player will receive the Map Card for their Pokégear. In HeartGold and SoulSilver, he instead gives the player the Running Shoes, and only gives them the Map Card upon leaving Cherrygrove City to the north.

Guide Gent's House
Full-of-Energy, High-Speed Old Man

Off-shore island

There is an off-shore island to the west of the town. Trainers are unable to reach the island when they first reach the town, due to the fact they are unable to use Surf. There is a man who will give the player the Mystic Water. In Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver, a strip of land north of the island has a hidden Nugget, which requires HM08 (Rock Climb) to reach.

Demographics

Pokémon Gold, Silver, and Crystal

In Pokémon Gold and Silver and Pokémon Crystal, Cherrygrove City has a total population of 18.

Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver

In Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver, the population of Cherrygrove City is 22, making it the second-smallest settlement in Johto, the smallest being New Bark Town. It is the smallest city in the Pokémon world.

Poké Mart

The Poké Mart is to the left of the Pokémon Center.

Generation II
Poké Ball After receiving Poké Balls from Elm's aide $200	Potion $300
Antidote $100	Parlyz Heal $200
Awakening $250

Lower cashier (Generation IV)
Poké Ball After catching tutorial on Route 29 $200	Great Ball3 Badges $600
Ultra Ball5 Badges $1200	Potion $300
Super Potion1 Badge $700	Hyper Potion5 Badges $1200
Max Potion7 Badges $2500	Full Restore8 Badges $3000
Revive3 Badges $1500	Antidote $100
Parlyz Heal $200	Awakening1 Badge $250
Burn Heal1 Badge $250	Ice Heal1 Badge $250
Full Heal5 Badges $600	Escape Rope1 Badge $550
Repel1 Badge $350	Super Repel3 Badges $500
Max Repel7 Badges $700

Upper cashier (Generation IV)
Air Mail After catching tutorial on Route 29 $50	Heal Ball After catching tutorial on Route 29 $300

Items

Item		Location	Games
	Map Card	Gift from Guide Gent after giving a tour around the town	G  S  C
	Running Shoes	Gift from Guide Gent after giving a tour around the town	HG  SS
	Map Card	Gift from Guide Gent at the entrance to Route 30	HG  SS
	Mystic Water	Gift from the man on the island in the water (requires Surf)	G  S  C  HG  SS
	Nugget ×2	East of the Pokémon Center, accessed from Route 30's lower pond (requires Surf) (hidden) On the cliff north of the off-shore island (requires Surf and Rock Climb) (hidden)	HG  SS

Pokémon

Generation II

Pokémon	Games						Location	Levels	Rate
Surfing
Tentacool	G		S		C		Surfing	20-24	60%
Tentacool	G		S		C		Surfing	15-19	30%
Tentacruel	G		S		C		Surfing	20-24	10%
Fishing
Krabby	G		S		C		Fishing Old Rod	10	15%
Magikarp	G		S		C		Fishing Old Rod	10	85%
Krabby	G		S		C		Fishing Good Rod	20	55%
Staryu	G		S		C		Fishing Good Rod	20	0%	0%	10%
Magikarp	G		S		C		Fishing Good Rod	20	35%
Corsola	G		S		C		Fishing Good Rod	20	10%	10%	0%
Krabby	G		S		C		Fishing Super Rod	40	60%
Kingler	G		S		C		Fishing Super Rod	40	10%
Staryu	G		S		C		Fishing Super Rod	40	0%	0%	30%
Corsola	G		S		C		Fishing Super Rod	40	30%	30%	0%
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.

Generation IV

Pokémon	Games						Location	Levels	Rate
Surfing
Tentacool	HG			SS			Surfing	10-25	90%
Tentacruel	HG			SS			Surfing	15-25	10%
Fishing
Krabby	HG			SS			Fishing Old Rod	10	15%
Magikarp	HG			SS			Fishing Old Rod	10	85%
Krabby	HG			SS			Fishing Good Rod	20	50%
Staryu	HG			SS			Fishing Good Rod	20	0%	0%	10%
Magikarp	HG			SS			Fishing Good Rod	20	40%
Corsola	HG			SS			Fishing Good Rod	20	10%	10%	0%
Krabby	HG			SS			Fishing Super Rod	40	60%
Kingler	HG			SS			Fishing Super Rod	40	10%
Staryu	HG			SS			Fishing Super Rod	40	0%	0%	30%
Corsola	HG			SS			Fishing Super Rod	40	30%	30%	0%
Headbutt Group A
Exeggcute	HG			SS			Headbutt	2-3	20%
Hoothoot	HG			SS			Headbutt	2-3	50%
Pineco	HG			SS			Headbutt	2-3	30%
Headbutt Group B
Exeggcute	HG			SS			Headbutt	4-5	20%
Hoothoot	HG			SS			Headbutt	4-5	50%
Ledyba	HG			SS			Headbutt	4-5	30%
Spinarak	HG			SS			Headbutt	4-5	30%
Headbutt The four trees on the hill by the sea. Accessible by surfing west into the water, then using Rock Climb.
Exeggcute	HG			SS			Headbutt	18-20	65%
Taillow	HG			SS			Headbutt	18-20	30%
Taillow	HG			SS			Headbutt	21-25	5%
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.

Trainers

Generation II

If the player chose Chikorita:

??? Cherrygrove City Gold, Silver, and Crystal Reward: $300
Type: Fire Unknown Held item: None Cyndaquil♂ Lv.5 Tackle Normal   --       Leer Normal   --       Struggle Normal   --       Struggle Normal   --

If the player chose Cyndaquil:

??? Cherrygrove City Gold, Silver, and Crystal Reward: $300
Type: Water Unknown Held item: None Totodile♂ Lv.5 Scratch Normal   --       Leer Normal   --       Struggle Normal   --       Struggle Normal   --

If the player chose Totodile:

??? Cherrygrove City Gold, Silver, and Crystal Reward: $300
Type: Grass Unknown Held item: None Chikorita♂ Lv.5 Tackle Normal   --       Growl Normal   --       Struggle Normal   --       Struggle Normal   --

Generation IV

If the player chose Chikorita:

Passerby Boy Cherrygrove City HeartGold and SoulSilver Reward: $500
Type: Fire Unknown Ability: Blaze Held item: None Cyndaquil♂ Lv.5 Tackle Normal Physical   --       Leer Normal Status   --       Curse Unknown Status   --       Curse Unknown Status   --

If the player chose Cyndaquil:

Passerby Boy Cherrygrove City HeartGold and SoulSilver Reward: $500
Type: Water Unknown Ability: Torrent Held item: None Totodile♂ Lv.5 Scratch Normal Physical   --       Leer Normal Status   --       Curse Unknown Status   --       Curse Unknown Status   --

If the player chose Totodile:

Passerby Boy Cherrygrove City HeartGold and SoulSilver Reward: $500
Type: Grass Unknown Ability: Overgrow Held item: None Chikorita♂ Lv.5 Tackle Normal Physical   --       Growl Normal Status   --       Curse Unknown Status   --       Curse Unknown Status   --

Walking Pokémon effects

When interacting with walking Pokémon in HeartGold and SoulSilver, the Pokémon may occasionally show an altered mood specific to this location.

• The walking Pokémon smells the scent of the flowers.

In the anime

Cherrygrove City in the anime

Cherrygrove City appeared in Once in a Blue Moon, where Ash, Misty, and Brock visited it along the way to Violet City. The riverside location prides itself on its clean and green image. Officer Jenny ensures the integrity of the area's large Quagsire population, which are illegal to catch under the local Quagsire Preservation Restrictions. The Quagsire are highly revered by locals as bioindicators of water quality and symbols of good fortune. Every year, the Quagsire swim down from nearby Blue Moon Falls and take round objects from around the city as a part of a special lunar festival. The items float downstream and are believed to be blessed once returned; the final item is considered particularly lucky.

One of the round objects the Quagsire were interested in was the GS Ball. Ash was reluctant to let them have it, but ultimately, the slippery Quagsire made away with the item, though it was eventually returned by the river, along with the rest of the taken items, allowing Ash to recover it.

In Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea, Samiya was temporarily located in the sea south of Cherrygrove.

Alex Davis from Power Play! is from Cherrygrove City, as is Salvador, a Trainer who Ash battled in A Claim to Flame!.

In the manga

Cherrygrove City in Pokémon Gold & Silver: The Golden Boys

Pokémon Adventures

Cherrygrove City in Pokémon Adventures

Gold, Silver & Crystal arc

Cherrygrove City first appeared in Elekid Incorporated, where Policeman Falkner took Gold to the Cherrygrove police station to be questioned regarding the Totodile theft from Professor Elm's laboratory. Gold was told to give a description of the culprit, Silver, but as Gold believed Silver to be behind the theft of his backpack as well, he gave the police a false description so that he could deal with Silver by himself.

In Slugging It Out with Slugma, Professor Oak was revealed to have a second research center in Cherrygrove City, from which he sent Crystal out on her quest to complete the Pokédex for him in the next chapter. She completed the task by the time of The Last Battle XIV, though Professor Oak hesitated to inform her that over 100 new Pokémon had recently been discovered.

Pokémon Gold & Silver: The Golden Boys

Cherrygrove City appeared in Falkner The Bird Keeper's Challenge!!, where Gold arrived there to meet Mr. Pokémon regarding a discovery he had recently made. However, Mr. Pokémon's wife told Gold that her husband had left for Violet City, so Gold headed there as well.

Trivia

• Cherrygrove City is the smallest city of Johto, which is ironic since its location is based on Nagoya, which is the fourth largest city of Japan and the second largest city of the region Johto represents.
• In Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver, the pond behind the Pokémon Center that was present, but inaccessible in Pokémon Gold, Silver, and Crystal, is accessible through a new path on Route 30. However, this causes a strange phenomenon: due to there being only one set of data for all bodies of water in a given location, entirely different Pokémon can be caught depending on whether the player is in the water on the Cherrygrove City or Route 30 side of the pond. Even stranger is the fact that those found on the Cherrygrove side belong in the sea.
• In Pokémon Gold, Silver, and Crystal, the green lady in the Pokémon Center mentions that the Communication Center on the second floor was "just built" even though the facility is called the Cable Club. In the Japanese versions, she correctly refers to the Cable Club, in which it is called the Link Club (Japanese: つうしんクラブ). In the Korean versions, she mentions the club by its English name (Korean: 통신센터 Communication Center).
  • Ironically enough, in the Japanese version of Pokémon Crystal, there is an NPC inside the Pokémon Communication Center in Goldenrod City who mentions that the center was also "just built".

Name origin

Language	Name	Origin
Japanese	ヨシノシティ Yoshino City	From 吉野草 Yoshino-gusa (alternate name of the cherry blossom) and 染井吉野 Somei Yoshino (natural hybrid of the Japanese cherry tree).
English	Cherrygrove City	From cherry blossom or cherry and grove
German	Rosalia City	From rosa (pink) and Rose
Spanish	Ciudad Cerezo	From cerezo (cherry tree)
	Ciudad Cherrygrove*	From its English name
French	Ville Griotte	From griotte (sour cherry)
Italian	Fiorpescopoli	From fiore di pesco (peach flower)
Korean	무궁시티 Mugung City	From 무궁화 (無窮花) mugunghwa (Hibiscus syriacus)
Chinese (Mandarin)	吉花市 Jíhuā Shì* 吉野市 Jíyě Shì*	From the Japanese name 吉野 Yoshino and 花 huā (flower) From the Japanese name 吉野 Yoshino
Chinese (Cantonese)	吉花市 Gātfā Síh* 吉野市 Gātyéh Shì*	From the Japanese name 吉野 Yoshino and 花 fā (flower) From the Japanese name 吉野 Yoshino
Finnish	Kirsikkalehto*	From kirsikka (cherry) and lehto (grove)
Polish	Cherrygrove* Miasto Cherrygrove*	From its English name
Brazilian Portuguese	Cidade de Cherrygrove	From its English name
Vietnamese	Thành phố Yoshino	Transcription of its Japanese name

Johto
Settlements New Bark Town • Cherrygrove City • Violet City • Azalea Town • Goldenrod City • Ecruteak City Olivine City • Cianwood City • Mahogany Town • Blackthorn City • Safari Zone Gate • Frontier Access Routes 29 • 30 • 31 • 32 • 33 • 34 • 35 • 36 • 37 • 38 • 39 • 40 • 41 • 42 • 43 • 44 • 45 • 46 • 47 • 48 Landmarks Dark Cave • Sprout Tower • Ruins of Alph • Union Cave • Slowpoke Well • Ilex Forest • Radio Tower • Global Terminal Goldenrod Tunnel • National Park • Pokéathlon Dome • Bell Tower • Bellchime Trail • Burned Tower • Moomoo Farm • Olivine Lighthouse Battle Tower (Crystal • HGSS)/Frontier • Cliff Edge Gate • Cliff Cave • Embedded Tower • Safari Zone • Whirl Islands Mt. Mortar • Lake of Rage • Team Rocket HQ • Ice Path • Dragon's Den • S.S. Aqua • Mt. Silver (Cave) Access to Sinjoh Ruins • Kanto

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