Yougahara City

Yougahara City (妖ヶ原-市 Yōgahara-shi) is the city the cures of Fairy Pretty Cure! live in.

Name
'You' (妖) is part of the word 'yousei' (妖精) which means 'fairy', the season's main motif. 'Ga' (ヶ) is meaningless and just a filler syllable and 'hara' (原) means 'plains, field, original).

History
Fairies came to explore Earth once, a long time ago. They came across a town surrounded by plains. The fairies met the people and befriended them, this was the only place the fairies came to outside of their kingdom and also due to the surrounding plains, the people named the area Yougahara. However, the cheer and fun between the two beings didn't last long, as there were sudden food shortages and many people starved, some starving to death. As a result of the shortages, people despaired, which made the area for the fairies unsuitable to reside in due to despair being the equivalent of pollution when it came to fairies. Then there was war in Japan shortly afterwards, which made Yougahara even more unsafe so the fairies couldn't explore anywhere further on Earth and had to go back to their Kingdom of the Fairies.

In modern days, the town of Yougahara expanded into a city so it was eventually named Yougahara City.

Places in the city

 * Private Hane School
 * Sakura forest
 * Yougahara Elementary School
 * Saku Hana (the Hanamori family's flower shop)