Snowpoint City
Template:Infobox town Snowpoint City (Japanese: キッサキシティ Kissaki City) is a city in the region of Sinnoh. Its temple is home to the legendary Pokémon Regigigas.
In the games
Geography
Snowpoint is located in the far north of Sinnoh, where snow blows down from the top of Mt. Coronet, causing low temperatures. Snowpoint City, and the three routes that lead to it (Route 216, Route 217 and Acuity Lakefront) are also completely covered in snow. To the northeast of Route 217, Lake Acuity can be found. A cave, which houses Uxie, is located in the middle of Lake Acuity. Being that the snow, which affects every battle on the two routes leading to the city, as well as the fact that to get to Route 216 from the rest of Sinnoh one must pass through Mt. Coronet, the most convenient way to get to the city is to Fly.
There is a house to the north of the Pokémon Center, in which an old man will teach the player new words to use in interviews once per day. In the opposite house, a girl will trade a Haunter holding an Everstone for a Medicham.
Snowpoint Temple
Although Snowpoint City is not home to much, a noticeable landmark in the area is Snowpoint Temple, which can only be accessed after the Sinnoh Elite Four have been beaten and the National Dex has been obtained. The temple contains five floors, with odd bits of slippery ice. At the very bottom of the temple lies a dormant Regigigas. To awaken this legendary Pokémon, the player must bring all three of the legendary golems along with them, which are all only available in the Generation III games.
Because of the location of the temple within a city, Regigigas is only the third legendary Pokémon that can be caught within city limits, the other two being Ho-Oh and Suicune in Ecruteak's Tin Tower during Generation II.
Diamond dust
On January 10, 2008, Junichi Masuda posted a blog entry urging players to play their Diamond or Pearl January 12. On that day, the same day as Masuda's birthday, a weather effect called diamond dust occurred in Snowpoint City, replacing the usual snow. It resembles glitter in the air. It is purely aesthetic, since it only occurs within the city where no battles are possible. It has been determined that other special weather conditions such as thunderstorms happen on predetermined days throughout the year, such as the diamond dust on April 22, 2007, when Diamond and Pearl saw their release in North America. It also appeared on February 29th, 2008, the extra day of the 2008 leap year. It appeared a third time on March 16, 2008 because of St. Patrick's Day, and a fourth on April 22, 2008, the first anniversary of Diamond and Pearl's US release. A video of Diamond Dust can be seen here.
In the anime
So far, Ash and his friends have not visited Snowpoint City; however, May calls him from there to tell him she has traveled to Sinnoh in DP075.
Name origin
Its name may be derived from the fact that it is a snow-covered city that is located at the northern-most point of Sinnoh. Its Japanese name is the same as that of the tip of a katana.
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