Lavender Town | |
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Pokémon location | |
First appearance | Pokémon Red and Blue |
Last appearance | Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee! |
Genre | Japanese role-playing game |
In-universe information | |
Type | Village |
Location | Kanto |
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.
The background music of Lavender Town is renowned for adding to the town's creepy atmosphere. In the 2010s, it gave rise to the "Lavender Town Syndrome" creepypasta, a fictional story about hundreds of Japanese children dying by suicide after listening to the track from high pitched tones that only they could hear. Lavender Town has become well-known for the variety of creepypastas associated with it, which has been the subject of analysis.