Radio Tower Crystal · Johto landmark

Map of Radio Tower in Pokémon Crystal — 1F (in-game map)

Goldenrod’s Radio Tower is the five-floor station behind the programmes heard on your Pokégear radio. In Crystal, once you hold seven Badges Team Rocket seize it, and clearing them out is a long sequence that loops through the Goldenrod Underground. The rescued Director rewards you with the Clear Bell.

Wild Pokémon: None
Items: 9
Trainers: 16

Connects to: Goldenrod City

Where Radio Tower is on the Johto map Radio Tower on the Johto map

Wild Pokémon

No wild Pokémon here.

Trainers

Rocket Executive 5F

Koffing 30

Weezing 32

Koffing 30

Prize ₽540

Rocket Executive 5F

Houndour 33

Koffing 33

Houndoom 35

Prize ₽630

Trainer	Pokémon	Prize	Where
Rocket GruntGrunt	Raticate 24 Raticate 24	₽240	1F
Rocket GruntGrunt	Grimer 23 Grimer 23 Muk 25	₽250	2F
Rocket GruntGrunt	Rattata 21 Rattata 21 Rattata 23 Rattata 23 Rattata 23	₽230	2F
Rocket GruntGrunt	Zubat 26 Zubat 26	₽260	2F
Rocket GruntGrunt	Arbok 26	₽260	2F
Rocket GruntGrunt	Koffing 23 Grimer 23 Zubat 23 Rattata 23	₽230	3F
Rocket GruntGrunt	Weezing 26	₽260	3F
Rocket GruntGrunt	Raticate 24 Koffing 26	₽260	3F
ScientistMarc	Magnemite 27 Magnemite 27 Magnemite 27	₽675	3F
Rocket GruntGrunt	Zubat 22 Golbat 24 Grimer 22	₽220	4F
Rocket ExecutiveExecutive	Golbat 36	₽648	4F
Rocket GruntGrunt	Ekans 21 Oddish 23 Ekans 21 Gloom 24	₽240	4F
ScientistRich	Porygon 30	₽750	4F
Rocket ExecutiveExecutive	Arbok 32 Vileplume 32 Murkrow 32 Phone rematches (1) Rematch 1 · ₽450Arbok 23 Gloom 23 Murkrow 25	₽576	5F

Prize money is the trainer class’s base payout times the level of the trainer’s last Pokémon. Trainers with phone rematches call you when they want another battle; their teams grow as you progress.

Items

Item	How	Where
Master Ball	Gift First prize in the Lucky Number Show: a Pokémon’s ID No. matches all five digits of the weekly number, which changes on Fridays.	1F
Exp. Share	Gift Second prize in the Lucky Number Show: a Pokémon’s ID No. matches the last three digits of the weekly number, which changes on Fridays.	1F
PP Up	Gift Third prize in the Lucky Number Show: a Pokémon’s ID No. matches the last two digits of the weekly number, which changes on Fridays.	1F
Blue Card	Gift Buena gives it to you the first time you talk to her, to collect points from her Password Show.	2F
TM11 Sunny Day	Gift A woman on 3F gives it to you as thanks after you free the Radio Tower from Team Rocket.	3F
Pink Bow	Gift DJ Mary gives it to you as thanks after you free the Radio Tower from Team Rocket.	4F
Ultra Ball	Item ball	5F
Basement Key	Gift The Rocket Executive disguised as the Director gives it to you after you defeat him on 5F.	5F
Clear Bell	Gift The Director gives it to you after you defeat the Rocket Executive on 5F and free the Radio Tower.	5F

Hidden items can be found with the Itemfinder from Ecruteak City.

Tips

Answer the 1F receptionist’s quiz Yes, Yes, No, Yes, No to win the Radio Card for your Pokégear.
The Lucky Number Show picks a new number every Friday; matching all five digits of an ID wins a Master Ball, the last three or four digits an Exp. Share and the last two digits a PP Up, and Pokémon in your PC boxes count.
During the takeover the fake Director on 5F uses five Koffing and a Weezing with Selfdestruct and Explosion; beating him gives the Basement Key.
After the takeover, the real Director gives you the Clear Bell, the woman on 3F gives TM11 Sunny Day and Mary on 4F gives a Pink Bow.
Meet Buena on 2F for the Blue Card; her Password show runs from 6 p.m. and earns points to spend on prizes.

Walkthrough: Part 10: Radio Tower Takeover and Suicune at Tin Tower

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FAQ

What are the Radio Card quiz answers in Pokémon Crystal?

Yes, Yes, No, Yes, No.

When does Team Rocket take over the Radio Tower in Pokémon Crystal?

After you earn your seventh Badge; Goldenrod City fills with Rockets, who hold the tower until you drive them out.

Where do you get the Clear Bell in Pokémon Crystal?

From the Radio Tower Director on 5F once Team Rocket has been driven out; it lets you pass the sages guarding Tin Tower.

Sources & picture credits

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.