The Train Station

Hours: 24 hours a day, everyday
The first place you arrive when you enter the Animal Crossing world. If you wish to take a ride to another village you will need to stop off here first and talk to the train station attendant, a monkey named Porter. Don't forget to visit every Saturday from 8pm until midnight for a chance to hear a tune by the guitar playing dog, Totakeke.

Tom Nook and the Local Shop

Hours: 9am to 10pm (except Nook n' Go: 7am-11pm)
The local shop is run by a raccoon named Tom Nook. Tom is also the local loanbroker, and the one you start off in debt to. His original shop, Nook's Cranny, is very tiny and holds hardly any salable goods. The more money you spend in his shop, the larger it becomes. His shop will grow to Nook 'n Go after you spend 25,000 and Nookway once you spend 65,000. The final stage, Nookington's, will come after you spend 150,000 and have a friend from another village come visit the shop. The bigger Tom's shop gets, the more and wider variety of items he will offer to sell you.

Items available only from Tom Nook: saplings, paint, candy, flower Seeds, signs.

If you trade items, or get a passcode you can tell it to Tom to get the item. You can also exchange one of your items for a passcode at his shop. The last day of every month is a raffle, Tom will have 3 prizes to be won. These prizes, aside from during the raffle, can be extremely hard to find. You get one try at a prize for each set of five tickets you have.

Items that give you tickets: clothes, umbrellas, furniture, wallpaper, carpet

Items that don't give you tickets: stationary, paint, candy, flowers, saplings, signs

One of the more important functions of Tom's shop is buying things from you. Some items cannot be sold to Tom, like uncleaned fossils. Other items, like tires, he will take off your hands for no monetary compensation. Tom will only pay you a quarter of the actual value of the object so be careful not to make mistakes. Some items you sell you will not be able to buy back, always check your catalog before selling one of a kind items.

If you talk to Tom you will be able to see your catalog. Your catalog contains all the items you have had in your possession before. Items marked as "Not for sale" cannot be repurchased. These include: rare NES games, Gracie clothes, Wendell wallpaper, Saharah carpets, items from Gulliver, and many more.

Tom also holds bargain sales two or three times a month. He will give out free balloons at all his sales. However, only a limited amount of merchandise will be available for purchase.

Finally, you can check with Tom for the daily fluctuating price of turnips. If you decide to sell Tom will take them off your hands. Make sure you sell them by the end of the week or they will go rotten.

Bulletin Board

Hours: All the Time
The bulletin board is the place for all important announcements. Villagers often post clues to treasure hunts and upcoming events are advertised. Be careful what you write as you will not be able to change it once it is posted. One of Tom's jobs at the beginning of the game is for you to post a message on the bulletin board. The board holds fifteen entries before they start to save over the oldest ones.

Police Station

Hours: 24 Hours a Day
The police station is home to Officers Copper and Booker. Officer Copper will tell you about any special visitors that are scheduled to visit your town soon. He will also tell you how many items are currently in the lost and found. Officer Booker is in charge of the lost and found. The lost and found can hold up to 20 items and gets new ones regularly. If you leave something laying around your village on the ground it will eventually make its way to the lost and found. You can claim any lost and found items as your own. Additionally Officer Copper leads the summer aerobics classes.

The Post Office

Hours: 24 Hours a Day
The post office is an important town feature. It is the place where you mail all your letters. You can mail up to five letters at a time, then you have to leave and re-enter. You can also store up to 160 letters in the post office. If you wish to make a payment on your loan to Tom Nook you can also do it here. Once you have paid off your debt you can use the post office as a bank to store your extra money. If you reach peak amounts of money you will be awarded special prizes:

Post Office Rewards

1,000,000 Bells Tissue 10,000,000 Bells Piggy Bank 100,000,000 Bells Mailbox 999,999,999 Bells Post Office Model

The Farway Museum

Hours: 24 Hours a Day
The museum has four rooms, each for displaying a different type of exhibit: fish, insects, fossils, and paintings. You can donate an item by talking to the curator, Blathers. Fossils cannot be donated to the museum unless they have been sent away to be cleaned and identified first. Once you have dug up a fossil you wil be sent a letter from the museum. After you receive the letter you will be able to mail fossils to the museum for cleanign. Simply attach a fossil to an empty letter and address it to the museum. Only one item of each kind can be donated, even if more than one player lives in your town. The first person to donate the item will have their name put on the plaque. If you complete the collection of 40 fish, 40 insects, 25 fossils, and 15 paintings you will receive the Museum Model.

The Dump

Hours: Emptied at 6am on Monday and Thursday
The dump is the place to dispose of any unwanted items you may find or fish out of the river. Every day two items are placed in the dump, which you can take. Up to sixteen items can be contained in the dump at any one time.

The Melody Board

Hours: Available all the time
The town melody board is how you change the music that plays each hour and when you talk to villagers. You can set up to a sixteen note tune to play. For more suggestions check out the town melody section.

The Wishing Well

Hours: Available all the time
The wishing well is the center of many festival events. It can also give you advice on how to make your town a better place. The wishing well will usually give you a cryptic message followed by an acre number. If you are told that your village is "perfect" for two weeks you will receive a golden axe. If the wishing well tells you that the area has "little green" you should plant trees. If it comments on "shadows" you should cut down trees. If things are satisfactory, or they could be better, thin out your trees. Although weeds do not seem to play as large a role as originally thought it never hurts to thin them out. Make sure you plant flowers as well, they make your town look better and attract insects.

The wishing well can also allow you to apologize for items you cannot deliver. This is helpful for villagers that move away. You may have to wait several days before you are allowed to apologize for an item. If you are allowed to apologize you can leave the item there and free up your item slot.

The Lighthouse

Hours: When Tortimer takes a vacation
During the winter the mayor may ask you to watch the lighthouse while he is away. It will be up to you to light in every day. If you do a good job he may give you chocolates and the lighthouse model.

Animal Island

Requires Game Boy Advance and Link Cable
If you visit the dock when your game boy advance is hooked up and turned on Kapp'n will take you to the island in his boat. On the first trip you will be able to enter a name for your island. The weather on the island varies, it can be raining there and not on the mainland. You will find coconuts growing on the island as well as a beach house. You can store items inside your island home the same as you would your other house. You can also design a pattern for the flag. The island has summer year round and you will be able to catch many out of season bugs there. It is also home to an islander that you can interact with on your game boy advance. You can feed fruit to the islander receive bags of money. Your islander can use tools if you leave some behind. Often items float over the island, these can be retreived by getting your islander to use a net. If you bury items your islander can dig up new ones. Your islander can also fish for special treasure.

The Tailor Shop

Hours: 7am to 2am
Sable and Mabel Able run the local fashion shop. You can design patters there for a small material fee. These patterns can them be applied to clothes, the island flag, your door, signs, walls, floors, or umbrellas. You can use any one of sixteen different palletes to make your design, each containing fifteen colors. There are also some pattern and fill tools to use. If you use your game boy advance you can design patterns for free. While you can only carry eight patterns with you, you can store 96 other designs at the shop.