Saffron City is one of the larger cities of Kanto. It is most notable for housing Silph Co., a massive office complex that spans eleven floors. Silph Co. also has relations with Omega Corp, and the two are in business arrangements. The spokesman for Omega within Silph in Saffron is Miyuki, an upbeat girl with a head for numbers. It is also notable for having had two separate gyms, though one was unofficial.

Two Gyms exist in Saffron City. One is the official Pokémon League Gym, and next to it stands the Fighting Dojo, an unofficial gym made up of Fighting trainers. City residents say that the Fighting Dojo was once an official League Gym, but lost its status to the rival Psychic gym when Sabrina ran it. Since then, it has become just a Dojo, training man and pokemon alike in the martial arts.

Silph Co. is a very elaborate location that utilizes teleport pads to warp the employees from location to location. Utilizing the highest technology possible for quick movement in short bursts, Silph Co, with the help of Omega Corp, has become one of the five most prominent businesses in all of the world, and in terms of Pokemon materials and non-military transportation technology, it is the greatest. Of late, Silph has also been working on biological/medical technology in an underground complex under Saffron. Security is tight at the Silph building, and no one not employed by the company can go beyond the first two floors. Underground access is strictly prohibited and monitored. Since the partial merger, the symbol of Silph-Omega is a stylized Umbrella.


Saffron also houses the Magnet Train, which runs between Saffron and Goldenrod City in the Johto region.