So it’s fitting that when the rarest of Pokémon gets its own Pokémon manhole cover, or Pokéfuta, as they’re officially called, it’s in an extremely remote location: Ogasawara, Tokyo.
Unavailable in the original Pokémon Red/Green/Blue games and absent from the initial TV anime arc, it wasn’t until the first Pokémon movie that Mew made its official debut.
Out of the Generation I Pokémon, there’s no harder species to find than Mew.
While legally part of Tokyo, Ogasawara is obviously its own isolated community, and Mew making it its new home is a feather in the cap of the town’s roughly 2,500 residents.