Lavender Radio Tower Crystal · Kanto landmark
Lavender Radio Tower is Kanto’s broadcasting station, which replaced the Pokémon Tower in Lavender Town. Only the ground floor can be visited. In Pokémon Crystal the station is off the air until the Power Plant is repaired, after which its founder gives you the EXPN Card for tuning in to Kanto radio.
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Connects to: Lavender Town
Lavender Radio Tower on the Kanto map
Wild Pokémon
No wild Pokémon here.
Items
No items to pick up here.
Tips
- After you return the Machine Part to the Power Plant, the man on the ground floor gives you the EXPN Card.
- The EXPN Card unlocks Kanto stations on the Pokégear radio, including the Poké Flute channel.
- Play the Poké Flute channel next to the Snorlax in Vermilion City to wake it.
- Security keeps visitors on the ground floor.
Walkthrough: Part 16: Power Plant, Cerulean City and Misty
FAQ
How do you get the EXPN Card in Pokémon Crystal?
Return the Machine Part to the Power Plant, then talk to the man on the ground floor of Lavender Radio Tower.
What is the EXPN Card for in Crystal?
It lets your Pokégear pick up Kanto radio, including the Poké Flute channel that wakes the Snorlax outside Diglett’s Cave.
Sources & picture credits
- Lavender Radio Tower (Bulbapedia)
- pret/pokecrystal (decompiled game data and graphics)
- Map drawn from maps/LavRadioTower1F.blk
Guide text is original retrogameindex writing, checked against the game’s own scripts and Bulbapedia. Wild Pokémon and encounter chances for all three times of day, fishing, Headbutt and Rock Smash tables, items, trainers, gifts, trades and shops come from the pret/pokecrystal decompilation (pret/pokecrystal 3bc8daa417). Maps, sprites and the Johto and Kanto Pokégear maps are drawn by retrogameindex from the game’s own graphics in that decompilation (listed on the image gallery). Pokémon © Nintendo / Creatures / GAME FREAK.