Ranking
An editorial ranking: grades from A+ to F, price range, and the Tabelog score where one exists.
Places ranked: 143
Hokkaido · Steakhouse
Enjoy prime teppanyaki with a stunning 26th-floor view over Sapporo. Located in the ANA Crowne Plaza Hotel, Teppanyaki Ishikari specializes in A-5 Shiraoi Wagyu and live Ezo abalone, cooked before your eyes.
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Hokkaido · Casual Dining
A Kushiro breakfast institution where you select fresh Hokkaido seafood from a market-style display and have it charcoal-grilled for you on the spot. It's famous for its perfectly cooked salmon belly and generous salmon roe bowls.
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Hokkaido · Izakaya
Specialising in individual lamb shabu-shabu, this moody basement restaurant in Sapporo's Susukino district offers a refined experience. Diners praise the high-quality lamb cuts and the house-made udon served to finish the meal.
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Hokkaido · Fine Dining
A dedicated fugu specialist in Sapporo, serving multi-course meals centred on live tiger pufferfish. Located on the 7th floor of the Sanjo Bisho Building, it offers an authentic fugu experience in private rooms for a surprisingly reasonable price.
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Hokkaido · Casual Dining
A specialist restaurant in Sapporo's Susukino district dedicated to mu gata, the Thai combination grill and hotpot. Guests praise the hands-on experience and authentic flavours, making it a favourite for a taste of home.
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Hokkaido · Fast Casual
A popular standing sushi bar inside a seafood market at New Chitose Airport. It's known for exceptionally fresh, thick-cut Hokkaido seafood, served quickly for travellers wanting a high-quality meal before or after a flight.
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Hokkaido · Casual Dining
Enjoy high-grade wagyu sukiyaki in a registered cultural property dating to 1901. Located in Hakodate's Horaicho district, this restaurant offers private tatami rooms and table-side service, with meat from its own butcher shop.
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Hokkaido · Dessert Shop
A fourth-generation wagashi shop in Sapporo, celebrated for its regional, handcrafted sweets. Visitors come for the signature 'zukume dango'—soft rice dumplings you dig out of a box of fragrant black sesame powder.
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Hokkaido · Casual Dining
Experience Osaka-style okonomiyaki made with premium Hokkaido ingredients in Kitami. Staff cook signature dishes like the Akatsuki-yaki and rich seafood monja at your table in this lively, family-friendly spot.
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Hokkaido · Casual Dining
In Sapporo's lively Susukino district, Shuan Godai (酒庵 五醍) offers a classic robata experience. Chefs grill fresh Hokkaido seafood and vegetables over a traditional charcoal irori hearth right before your eyes.
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Hokkaido · Casual Dining
In the city of Date, Hokkaido, this acclaimed soba shop of the Takahashi school (Okina Daruma lineage) serves house-milled, hand-cut noodles. It's a destination for soba purists, drawn by its refined dashi and popular multi-item sets.
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Hokkaido · Casual Dining
The 1954 original of Sapporo's most famous jingisukan chain, serving charcoal-grilled mutton on dome-shaped pans in the Susukino district. Expect long queues for its intense, old-school atmosphere.
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Hokkaido · Coffee Shop
A popular gyoza spot in a renovated house in Zenibako, Otaru, known for its signature jumbo dumplings. Visitors come for the huge, juicy gyoza with a distinctively chewy skin and the hearty, affordable set meals.
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Hokkaido · Casual Dining
Gyoza Suguruya (餃子 すぐるや) is a tiny counter in Susukino, Sapporo, on the ground floor of the New Koraku Building. A former sweets maker folds each gyoza to order, including a molten curry gyoza.
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Hokkaido · Wine Bar
A sophisticated Sapporo yakitori bar pairing precisely grilled Hinai jidori chicken with a vast wine selection. Known for creative skewers and its signature blue-cheese fried rice, it's a top choice for a special night out.
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