Lavender Town

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Lavender Town (Japanese: シオンタウン, Hepburn: Shion Taun; Shion Town) is a fictional village in the 1996 video games Pokémon Red and Blue. Stylized as a haunted location, Lavender Town is home to the Pokémon Tower, a burial ground for deceased Pokémon and a location to find Ghost-type Pokémon. A subplot in the town involves the tower being haunted by the ghost of a dead Marowak, with the story of its orphaned child Cubone being explored in the games' 2018 remakes Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!. Lavender Town also appears in the 1999 games Pokémon Gold and Silver, 2000's Pokémon Crystal, and the remakes of those games. Lavender Town has also appeared in various spin-off media for the series. The background music of Lavender Town is renowned for adding to the town's creepy atmosphere, and has been remixed in a variety of fashions across the series. In the 2010s, the music gave rise to an urban legend about a fictional incident in which hundreds of Japanese children were led...

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