Further ahead were the next five sites:
6-chome: Rest Area
It’s a place thoughtfully provided for people to spend their money on more souvenirs and for smokers to tar their lungs inside closed rooms. I didn’t spend much time over here.
7-chome: "The Parthenon"
This was one of the more impressive snow sculptures at the festival. It looked positively monolithic, yet the people who constructed it had obviously paid a lot of attention to the tiniest details, like the frieze above the columns. Good thing they provided a viewing platform to allow tourists to actually see the sculpture.
8-chome: "Magistrate’s Office in Hakodate"
Although locals might take an interest in the historical significance of this sculpture, I wasn’t too impressed. Although it was large, it didn’t seem all that spectacular to me, but maybe the cold was just getting to me by this time.
9-chome: "Ski Slope at 9-chome"
A rather amusing sculpture of animals skiing down a gentle snow slope. I felt that this one was rather plain, though, partly because I was distracted by the display at the 10-chome site up ahead.
10-chome: "Dinosaurs!" and "101 Snowmen"
"Dinosaurs!" was the most popular with the crowd, and rightfully so. This one was also my personal favourite. All the dinosaurs were roughly life-size and no detail was spared in their construction, which meant that the display was simply colossal. Unfortunately, these snow dinosaurs will also meet the same fate as the rest of their kin – eventual extinction brought about by rising temperatures.