Town Hall

The Town Hall is a building that first appeared in, replacing buildings and locations from previous games in the. It is once again featured in.

In Animal Crossing: Wild World and City Folk
In and City Folk, the Town Hall is the location of many of the town's civic duties. It is the center of the town, where almost all of the festivities take place in the plaza outside.

The Town Hall replaces the Wishing Well, Dump and Post Office in for the GameCube. Therefore, it is where players can deliver letters, recycle items, and is where Tortimer will stand outside during events in the plaza outside.

The inside of the building has a counter that divides it into two parts, the Civic Center and the Post Office. Anywhere behind the counter is inaccessible to the player, and contains bookcases, mail sacks and the Mayor's desk, where Tortimer can be found sleeping. Pelly works from 7am to 10pm and Phyllis works from 10pm to 7am in the Town Hall.

Civic Center

 * Environment- The player can hear the opinions of the townsfolk in regard to the environment of the town.
 * Town Tune- The town tune can be edited from here.
 * Town Fund (City Folk)- Money can be donated to aid the town.
 * Donation (Wild World)- Money can be donated to the town of Boondox in exchange for feathers.
 * Problem (City Folk)- Problems regarding villagers and accessing the Player's house are reported.
 * Moving (Wild World)- Players can be transferred from one town to another.

Post Office

 * Pay Mortgage (Wild World)- Player pay in bells towards their mortgage.
 * Withdraw (Wild World)- A Player can withdraw money from their account.
 * Deposit (Wild World)- A Player can deposit money into their account.
 * Save Mail- Saves selected mail, which can be accessed at any time.
 * Save Notes in bottles (Wild World)- Save selected notes in bottles that can be accessed at any time.
 * Send Letter- Post a letter to a fellow villager.

The Recycling Bin
The recycling bin can be used to leave any unwanted items here to be taken away at 6am every Monday and Thursday. This can be useful for any items which cannot be sold to Tom Nook for Bells.

Occasionally, items such as furniture, tools and clothing can be found in the recycling bin. These items may have previously been placed in the houses of villagers, who have obtained a new item in its place.

Automatic Bell Dispenser
The Automatic Bell Dispenser allows players to deposit or withdraw Bells, and to pay their mortgage. The bell dispenser was absent in and was replaced by Pelly during the day, and Phyllis during the night.

The Bulletin Board
The Bulletin Board is a message board outside of the hall, where messages can appear every day. The player can also post their own messages, and is where Tom Nook sends the player to post how "cool" his store is as a job at the start of the game. In games before Wild World, it is located outside the Post Office.

In, two changes are made to the Bulletin Board. A small yellow bird is perched on top of the board whenever there is a new notice, and a player can delete messages if they feel the need to do so. This bird can be seen on the cover of City Folk.

There are a number of different types of messages that feature on the Bulletin Board-

Events- Notices about events will usually appear one week prior to an event.

Message of the Week- In Wild World, small anecdotes or notes occasionally appear of the Board, usually with an humorous twist. These notes are suspected to have been written by either Pelly or Phyllis- there are often tales about the writer's sister, and their odd habits.

Talking To Myself- In Wild World, every so often, "Talking To Myself" little posts are posted to the Board. They are often remotely random, off-topic, and fairly non sequitur. For a compilation of "Talking To Myself" bulletins, please see this page.

Weather Warnings- For a full list of weather warnings, please see Weather Warnings.

Birthdays- These notices tell players of a Villager's birthday a week before their special day, and also wishes the player many happy returns when it's their own birthday.

Emergency Notice- These are notes that Tom Nook puts up to advertise an imminent Point Special or Spotlight Item. Point Specials are advertised a week before the event, whilst a Spotlight Item is only made known of the day of its sale.

In Animal Crossing: New Leaf
The Town Hall is now used by the player who is the mayor of the town. Inside, Isabelle can be found behind the counter and will help the player fulfill their duties as mayor. It has undergone dramatic changes in. This is in part due to the returning buildings which take on some of the responsibilities of the Town Hall. The Post Office has taken on the postal duties and banking, while Nook's Homes now control the mortgage payments. Both of which can be found in Main Street.

The Bulletin Board is now by the Train Station, recycling is done through Re-Tail and a Garbage Can public works project, and Isabelle will now provide the services of the Civic Center area.

Other appearances

 * Smashville in Super Smash Bros. Brawl has Town Hall's music (along with Tom Nook's Theme) playing in the background.

Trivia

 * In if a player is imported from, Tortimer will remember meeting them outside the town hall rather than in it, as occurs in Wild World. Pelly or Phyllis will mention the player is in fact a new resident, and Tortimer will dismiss it as déjà vu instead.
 * A Cranky villager will talk about donating bells and hearing Tortimer say "I'm having steak tonight!" or that Tortimer's installing a plasma TV at his house after the villager made a donation in.
 * In  and, a yellow bird rests itself on top of the Bulletin Board whenever there is a new message that has been posted. As soon as you attempt to approach the Board, it flies away.
 * When it is nightime in and the player has yet to read their new message there will be a white owl on top of the Bulletin Board instead, unlike  where a yellow bird would appear regardless of the current time. It also flies away when approached.