Town of Beginnings

The Starting City (はじまりの街), also known as "Town of Beginnings", is the main settlement on the 1st floor of «Aincrad», the beginning point of all players and is also the largest town in Aincrad. It is also where a majority of the non-players in «Sword Art Online» reside.

Appearance
The Starting City takes up 20% of the 1st Floor's surface, large enough to hold a Tokyo district, thus it is capable of housing over six thousand people. It has large stone paved roads, surrounded by street-lights.

Notable Locations

 * Black Iron Castle - Home Base of the Aincrad Liberation Force
 * Monument of Life (Official SAO)
 * Room of Resurrection (SAO Closed Beta)
 * Monument of Swordsmen (ALO)
 * Black Iron Castle Dungeon

Aincrad Arc
When the game is cleared, Kirito and Asuna watch as the «Starting City» and Aincrad crumble into the clouds along with the other floors.

Trivia

 * Although the city has a lot of facilities essential for adventuring with generally low prices and all sorts of inns, thus in terms of efficiency, it is the best town to be used as a home base, none of the higher level players have stayed in this city till the end. One of the reasons for this is the oppression from «The Army», but the main reason is that while standing at the central plaza, most people recall the events of the first day in the SAO official service.

Gallery
Pueblo de los Inicios