Shopping Mall Nine (Japanese: ショッピングモール アールナインShopping Mall R9) is the largest shopping center in the Unova region. It is located on Route 9, just outside Opelucid City. The store, like the department stores before it, offers a wide variety of items on its three floors. Also, the player can encounter trainers to battle.
Like Department Stores in other regions, all the individual stalls are located on different floors. Unlike these stores, Shopping Mall Nine is fitted with stairs rather than escalators or elevators. As a result, accessing different floors is quicker in Shopping Mall Nine than in other department stores.
On the lower level of the store, there is a storage room on the right filled with boxes, each filled with old electrical appliances that Shopping Mall Nine can no longer sell. The player can interact with any box to change Rotom's form, similar to Rotom's Room in the Generation IV games.
Trivia
This is the first large store not to carry the Department Store name.
It is also the first to be in a location other than a city.
Despite Department Stores having been known for their TM selection, Shopping Mall Nine only sells twoTMs.
