Location from Pikmin 2 by Nintendo / Shigeru Miyamoto
The first area of the expedition — a snow-covered landscape that was once a paved road or sidewalk, now buried and beautiful and very cold.
The Valley of Repose opens in winter. The quiet is the first thing — a muffled, snow-specific silence where sound doesn't carry far and the world feels paused. Olimar has been here before; this is not the same place he remembers, because nothing about PNF-404 is quite the same on the second visit. The area is a gentle tutorial in contrast: the surface is dangerous but knowable, the caves beneath are a different matter. The Emergence Cave here is the first cave of the game — small, easy, and the place where Purple Pikmin are discovered, which changes everything. The debt counter runs the entire time.
Frost-white on every surface: trees stripped bare, ground crunching underfoot. Through the snow, shapes emerge that don't belong — the geometry of a crosswalk, the curve of a manhole cover, a road sign half-buried. Snowmen stand in the field, inexplicably. There is no civilization here. There are its remnants. Three caves cut into the terrain, and the Hocotate Ship sits at the landing site like a very small, very expensive mailbox.
Also known as: Valley of Repose, Friedvolles Tal