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The stone city — home to Roxanne's Gym, Devon Corporation, and the Pokémon Trainers' School. Industry and education built on bedrock.
Rustboro City is Hoenn's first major urban center for trainers heading north. Roxanne runs both the Gym and the Trainers' School here. Devon Corporation — Mr. Stone's technology empire and Steven's family business — has its headquarters here. Sapphire earns her first badge (Stone Badge) by defeating Roxanne here. The city represents institutional power — education, industry, and traditional training. It's everything Ruby finds boring and everything Sapphire finds challenging.
A city of stone buildings and paved streets, dominated by the Devon Corporation headquarters and the Pokémon Trainers' School. More urban and developed than the towns to the south. Roxanne's Gym is integrated into the school building. The architecture feels solid, permanent, certain.
Also known as: Rustboro City, Rustboro