Traverse Town

Traverse Town
Japanese	トラヴァースタウン
Romaji	Toravāsu Taun
Games	Kingdom Hearts; Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories; Kingdom Hearts coded; Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance
KH tracks
	Field theme - Traverse Town
	Battle theme - Night of Fate
	Battle theme - Hand in Hand
KHCOM tracks
	Field theme - Traverse Town
	Battle theme - Hand in Hand
KHREC tracks
	Field theme - Traverse Town
	Battle theme - Night of Fate
KH3D tracks
	Field theme - Traverse in Trance
	Battle theme - Hand to Hand
Other worlds
Introduced in Kingdom Hearts
	Dive to the Heart \| Destiny Islands \| Disney Castle; Traverse Town \| Wonderland \| Olympus Coliseum; Deep Jungle \| Agrabah \| Monstro; Atlantica \| Halloween Town \| Neverland; 100 Acre Wood \| Hollow Bastion; End of the World \| Realm of Darkness
Introduced in Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories
	Castle Oblivion \| Twilight Town
Introduced in Kingdom Hearts II
	Mysterious Tower \| Radiant Garden; The Land of Dragons \| Beast's Castle \| Timeless River; Port Royal \| Pride Lands \| Space Paranoids; The World That Never Was \| End of Sea \| Keyblade Graveyard
Introduced in Kingdom Hearts coded
	Datascape
Introduced in Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep
	Land of Departure \| Mirage Arena; Dwarf Woodlands \| Enchanted Dominion \| Castle of Dreams; Disney Town \| Deep Space
Introduced in Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance
	La Cité des Cloches \| The Grid \| Symphony of Sorcery; Country of the Musketeers \| Prankster's Paradise
Introduced in Kingdom Hearts χ[chi]
	Daybreak Town
Introduced in Kingdom Hearts Union χ[Cross]
	Game Central Station \| Niceland \| Cy-Bug Sector \| Candy Kingdom
Introduced in Kingdom Hearts III
	The Final World \| Secret Forest \| Olympus; Toy Box \| Kingdom of Corona \| Monstropolis; Arendelle \| The Caribbean \| San Fransokyo; Scala ad Caelum \| Quadratum

Oh no! The water! I'm in big trouble if I don't fetch it!

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Traverse Town is a world in the Realm Between introduced in Kingdom Hearts, where it serves as the game's main hub. It is a unique world that consists of the remnants of worlds which have been lost to darkness, and serves as a haven to those whose worlds no longer exist in the Realm of Light.^[1] In order to serve as a new home, it is able to reshape its own layout to meet their needs.^[2] However, in all appearances it remains a quaint and calm town with a sky of unending night, in which stars can be clearly seen.

Settings and Areas

Traverse Town is similar to a Victorian-age town in terms of design and layout. It is divided into five major districts along with several minor locations such as alleyways and caves. Besides being created from fragments of destroyed worlds and serving as a home to those whose worlds have been destroyed by the Heartless, Traverse Town is also a great place to shop.

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Kingdom Hearts coded

Within the data representation of the town, the Keyhole itself is accessible, containing the 1st District, 2nd District, 3rd District and Terminus, which are placed in a linear formation.

Area Map in Kingdom Hearts Re:coded

No

Story

Between Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep and Kingdom Hearts

Maleficent invades Radiant Garden with her army of Heartless, and Cid takes young Leon, Yuffie, and Aerith to Traverse Town in a Gummi Ship.

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Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories

When Sora enters Castle Oblivion, Marluxia gives him a world card, which leads Sora into a memory-based Traverse Town. Here Marluxia teaches Sora how to fight while in the castle.

While exploring the town, Sora, Donald, and Goofy encounter Leon, Yuffie, and Aerith, who do not remember them, but paradoxically know their names. Aerith speculates that their memories are resonating with Sora's.

Sora continues exploring the town, and he encounters Cid, who also recognizes Sora, but doesn't remember him. He tells Sora about the giant Heartless that appears when the Gizmo Shop bell rings. When the bell does after Cid leaves, the Guard Armor appears, and Sora fights and defeats it. After the battle, Sora says goodbye to the others, ready to continue on his way through the castle, but Aerith tells him that the town and its inhabitants are figments of Sora's mind, and that he should careful about trusting his memory.

Later, Riku explores the memory-based Traverse Town, but he only encounters the Guard Armor. He promptly defeats the Heartless and takes his leave.

Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days

Although Roxas never visits this world, he sometimes sees it in his dreams and flashbacks reliving Sora's memories.

Kingdom Hearts II

While Sora's memories are being restored, Roxas continues to dream of his memories from Traverse Town, including his meeting Leon, Yuffie, and Aerith, and teaming up with Donald and Goofy.

Although Sora does not visit this world during his second journey, Merlin claims that he retrieved Winnie the Pooh's storybook out of the town's Zero District.

Traverse Town is mentioned several times in the Secret Ansem Reports.

Kingdom Hearts coded

In the datascape, Data-Sora is sent to Traverse Town after debugging the Destiny Islands. He is woken up by Pluto in the First District, paralleling when the real-world Sora first arrived at the real town. Data-Sora finds the town overrun with Bug Blox and Heartless, and he is asked by Cid to search for Huey, Dewey, and Louie in the other districts. He finds them one by one, and each of them gives Sora a shiny object they found while exploring. Sora notices that the objects fit together to make an incomplete Keyhole.

While searching the town, Sora encounters the black-coated figure, and after he finds the last of the triplets, the figure gives him one last piece of the Keyhole. From the Disney Castle library, Mickey tells Sora that the Keyhole probably leads to the source of the bugs. Inside the Keyhole, Sora traverses a strange space filled with bugs and Heartless. At the end, he encounters a Guard Armor, fights, and defeats it, clearing the town of bugs.

After Sora debugs Traverse Town, a new power awakens inside of him. Meanwhile, in the castle library, a new message appears in Jiminy's Journal, that reads "There are more hurts than the one you have just undone."^[3]

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Other appearances

A fragmentary passage

While not visitable, Traverse Town is briefly shown with Donald and Goofy walking through it.

Characters

Leon
^{[KH I]}^{[KH CoM]}
Yuffie
^{[KH I]}^{[KH CoM]}
Aerith
^{[KH I]}^{[KH CoM]}
Cid
^{[KH I]}^{[KH CoM]}^{[KH coded]}
Moogles
^{[KH I]}^{[KH CoM]}^{[KH coded]}^{[KH 3D]}
Huey
^{[KH I]}^{[KH coded]}
Dewey
^{[KH I]}^{[KH coded]}
Louie
^{[KH I]}^{[KH coded]}
Pongo
^{[KH I]}
Perdita
^{[KH I]}
99 Puppies
^{[KH I]}
Merlin
^{[KH I]}
Fairy Godmother
^{[KH I]}
Pinocchio
^{[KH I]}
Geppetto
^{[KH I]}
Cleo
^{[KH I]}
The Accessory Shop assistant.
^{[KH I]}
The man standing in front of the shop.
^{[KH I]}
The woman near the cafe bar.
^{[KH I]}
The boy roaming the First District.
^{[KH I]}
The boy near the mailbox.
^{[KH coded]}
The woman near the cafe bar.
^{[KH coded]}
The man near the Third District entrance
^{[KH coded]}
Neku Sakuraba
^{[KH 3D]}
Joshua
^{[KH 3D]}
Shiki
^{[KH 3D]}
Daisukenojo Bito
^{[KH 3D]}
Rhyme
^{[KH 3D]}
Julius
^{[KH 3D]}

Cameos

The Start of an Adventure 04 KH.png

Lady and Tramp on the fountain.

Enemies

Heartless


Shadow ^{[KH I]}^{[KH CoM]}^{[KH coded]} Soldier ^{[KH I]}^{[KH CoM]}^{[KH coded]} Air Soldier ^{[KH I]} Large Body ^{[KH I]}^{[KH coded]} Red Nocturne ^{[KH I]}^{[KH CoM]} Blue Rhapsody ^{[KH I]}^{[KH CoM]} Yellow Opera ^{[KH I]} Green Requiem ^{[KH I]} Sniperwild ^{[KH I FM]} Search Ghost ^{[KH I]} Darkball ^{[KH I]} Wyvern ^{[KH I]}^{[KH coded]} Defender ^{[KH I]} Eliminator ^{[KH coded]} Wizard ^{[KH I]} White Mushroom ^{[KH I]}^{[KH CoM]} Black Fungus ^{[KH CoM]} Gold Tricholoma ^{[KH coded]} Blox Bug ^{[KH coded]} Danger Bug ^{[KH coded]} Prize Bug ^{[KH coded]} Guard Armor ^{[KH I]}^{[KH CoM]}^{[KH coded]} Opposite Armor ^{[KH I]}

Nobodies


Unknown

Dream Eaters


Meow Wow ^{[KH 3D]} Komory Bat ^{[KH 3D]} Kooma Panda ^{[KH 3D]} Beat's Kooma Panda ^{[KH 3D]} Pricklemane ^{[KH 3D]} Hebby Repp ^{[KH 3D]} Yoggy Ram ^{[KH 3D]} Fin Fatale ^{[KH 3D]} Tama Sheep ^{[KH 3D]} Tatsu Blaze ^{[KH 3D]} Cera Terror ^{[KH 3D]} Hockomonkey (Sora's Side) (Sora only) ^{[KH 3D]} Hockomonkey (Riku's Side) (Riku only) ^{[KH 3D]} Spellican (Sora only) ^{[KH 3D]} Wargoyle (Sora only) ^{[KH 3D]} Char Clawbster (Sora only) ^{[KH 3D]}

Other


Leon ^{[KH I]} Julius ^{[KH 3D]}

Notes and references

^ Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance, Joshua: This town has a little secret. It only appears when someone out there has need of shelter.
^ Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance Ultimania, Tetsuya Nomura: "In the first place, the worlds in the rift between darkness and light have different rules than other worlds. The Mysterious Tower isn't always standing in a fixed place. Traverse Town too reforms its shape every time, which is why the version that appears in this title is clearly different than the version in KH1."
^ In the original Kingdom Hearts coded, the message reads, "Their torment has been lessened."

Traverse Town

Contents

Settings and Areas

Kingdom Hearts coded

Story

Between Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep and Kingdom Hearts

Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories

Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days

Kingdom Hearts II

Kingdom Hearts coded

Other appearances

A fragmentary passage

Characters

Enemies

Heartless

Nobodies

Dream Eaters

Other

Notes and references

See also

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