Recommended by locals

The store that started Sapporo’s shime-parfait (closing parfait) fashion. The parfaits and sandwiches look almost like artworks!

This store started the shime-parfait, or closing parfait fashion - finishing up after a few drinks with a nice parfait. Inside, you can be soothed by the warm light of the Edison lamps, taking in the both retro and modern atmosphere, while eating the artwork-like parfaits that put seasonal fresh fruit to use in huge amounts for their distinct designs, or the limited sandwiches popular for their cute cross-sections. The parfaits are sticklers for quality, making sure of high-grade sweet fruit, soft-serve made from rich Hokkaido milk, and original fluffy, simple cream made to bring out the taste of the fruit. The unusual taste of alcohol and herbs blended together is another secret to its popularity. You can enjoy this to the last bite.

The 800,000 light bulbs across five sites glitter in a beautiful, dreamlike winter view of Sapporo. From Odori 1st to 6th streets, the differently themed light constructs are worth a look.

The Sapporo White Lightup started with just 1,048 light bulbs, back in December 1981. Today it spans from 1st to 6th street of Sapporo Odori Park, Sapporo Station’s south exit station front field, the Sapporo Station Pasage, the Sapporo City North Sanjo "Akapla"site, and Minami Ichijo Passage, for a total of 5 sites, making a massive event with 800,000 bulbs. The Odori Park site has themed light constructs from first to sixth streets, each with a different theme. Additionally, the Munich Christmas Market is held until Christmas in the Odori Site. In a recreation of the German Advent, Christmas goods, hot wine and German foods are sold from stalls. *The 19th Munich Christmas Market in Sapporo for 2020 was cancelled.

Start your Hokkaido food trip right with a nice meal of local Italian food, eaten with chopsticks.

An Italian restaurant dedicated to local production and consumption, based on French and northern Italian home cooking, and themed around enjoying the best of Hokkaido’s food. Cooked with favoured Hokkaido ingredients. The seasonal bounties of the Sea of Japan, the Southdown lambs grown on the seaside, the young yezo sika deer brought down with clean kills,the vegetables brought in from Naganuma or kept over the winter from Makari village, the wide white and green asparagus from Nikkou, and more depending on the season make a variety of excellent course and standalone meals. The meals, bread and desserts are all made by hand and use at least one ingredient from within Hokkaido. The wine selection spans about 200, in small numbers and wide variety, from across France, Italy, and Hokkaido.

Enjoy lunch in a natural cafe, with special care given to keeping everything handmade. Spend a happy, relaxed time with this warm welcome.

The edge of the Yukanboshi river, surrounded by untouched forest. A slow cafe in an easy-going location, themed around handmade goods and food. The lunch menu includes pasta with ingredients that change by the season and day, a hamburger patty that draws repeat customers from far away, and so on. There’s also a big dessert menu, and several coffees, including the deep-roasted Fukuza Blend Coffee, which has a rich, sweet taste like chocolate. All of this is eaten with dishes from the Pottery Workshop Yuragi, where all of this was made by hand. The food and coffee are both made with great care. It can take a while, so you can spend that time browsing the goods sold around the store. Some of the exotic goods from overseas, as well as the one-of-a-kind works made by particular craftspeople, are must-sees.

This restaurant prides itself in dishes made from the oysters it brings in direct from Akkeshi. Its special zantare is also popular. The first floor sells fresh fish and processed products.

This locally beloved izakaya brings in fresh seafood from ports like Akkeshi and Nemuro, offering them in the style that tastes best for that time of the year. The first floor sells fresh products. The second floor’s restaurant is bright and open, a perfect space to relax in. The oyster fries and oyster steak use oysters brought straight in from Akkeshi, adding to the lineup of dishes such as the classic Akkeshi Oyster Rice Bowl, monthly recommended menus, the reasonably priced and satisfying lunch menu, and so on. A local favourite is the zantare, a Kotobukiya speciality, where sweet sauce is pouerd on Zangi, or fried bird.

Lunchtime in a farmer’s eatery that makes the most of home-grown vegetables and local ingredients

The restaurant"NOMU Kitchen"is operated by the north Hiroshima Nomura Garden, which grows all kinds of crops. The location is surrounded by nature. Here you can enjoy handmade meals from local ingredients, and organic vegetables grown by the Nomura Garden. The popular menu is a lunch plate with a main dish you can choose and lots of side dishes, such as a piping hot hamburger patty on a skillet. A few days per month are designated as soba days, with handmade soba provided. Some people come for the soft-serve, not meals. People can be seen around the building enjoying the soft-serve, seated on the many benches made by local university students. Sweets and foods are also sold for takeout, with a Nomura Garden produce stand nextdoor as well.

The stand, operated by a farmer, always has fresh organic vegetables.

The Mieko Lake Park in Namporo Town is always filled with campers and people fishing for Japanese crucian carp, and next to it is the produce stand Minori. The manstays of the produce sold here are vegetables grown without pesticides or artificial fertiliser. Tomato, bell pepper, cabbage, zucchini, potato, watermelon and various herbs are just some of the vegetables and fruit you can buy here depending on the season. Apart from this, you can also buy quality eggs, and reduced-pesticide rice (only 1 batch of herbicide). A reliable store for people who want fresh, delicious, safe food. This will make searching for ingredients for the meal easy. Soft-serve and drinks are also on offer, so you can rest a while here.

A yakitori store with over 80 years of history. Motsu (organ) and sei (chicken breast) skewers, sake and many other options are on the menu!

An old hand at Bibai yakitori, they’ve been keeping the grills running for 80 years on the philosophy that "we want as many people as possible to eat as much delicious food as possible, cheaply and easily". The "original Bibai motsu" is their most popular item and one of the 7 greatest yakitori in the country. A single skewer has chicken meat, chicken liver, inner egg (the yolk before it’s laid), gizzard, heart, onion etc. on it. Flavoured simply with just salt and pepper, it’s then grilled slowly on a high-temperature charcoal fire. The next most popular dish is "Original Bibai Sei". A simple skewer of onion and adult chicken breast, it’s classic soul food that represents Bibai. Apart from that, the menu has a rich variety of dishes, including salad, soba, organ stew and so on.

3 markets, eateries, fashion and sundry stores all line up here, in the heart of Ebetsu’s food culture and lifestyle.

ËBRI is a brick-built shopping facility making use of a pipe factory built in the Meiji era. With FOODxEVENTxMARCHe as its central concept, it was designed as a basepoint for building food culture and new lifestyles, and a place for local people to mingle. After enjoying your lunch, you can shop at the marketplace and sundry stores as well.

Walk along the fashionable train street and take your breakfast surrounded by the scent of coffee

MORIHICO is popular as a cafe brand that started in Sapporo. They have many unique cafes in the city, and the second of them is Atelier Morihico. The name atelier comes from the fact that coffee was previously roasted here. The outside is a train street where trains rumble along the road, in a crossover of new and old. Inside continues that trend, with a blending of new and old in the interior, surrounding a single-board table from over a century ago, making a pleasant atmosphere mixed with the scent of coffee. The morning menu goes on until 11 AM, offering a bit of a late breakfast. Enjoy some MORIHICO. coffee with the delicious sandwiches that mix fruit, cheese and more.

For lunch, sample Otaru’s seafood and pick what suits your family from a wide menu

If you’re in Otaru, seafood is the obvious choice for lunch. The Aozuka Inn Shokudo, situated right in front of Shukutsu port, is a diner operated by the inn, popular with both tourists and local people as a place where you can always enjoy seasonal seafood. A single quaint house sitting at the side of Shukutsu port, if offers herring, tokubire (Podothecus sachi), and gives off the delicious scent of scallops and whelks cooking. The store offers both table seats, and convenient raised seats in case you came with children. The menu has sashimi, seafood rice bowls, sea urchin rice bowls, set meals with grilled fish and more, with a wide range of choices in both sets and single dishes for you to mix and match. Your appetite will only build while you’re deciding what to get. Enjoy Otaru-Shukutsu’s flavours while watching the sea in front of you.

Enjoy dolphin shows and exhibits of big northern fish,
then go to the marine animal park to meet seals and sea lions!

A historic aquarium situated on the higher parts of Shukutsu. The exhibition of enormous northern creatures shows off the Sakhalin Taimen (the biggest freshwater fish native to Japan), and the 1.2m halibut, a relative of flounders that can reach 2.5m in size! You can also meet the giant pacific octopus, which reaches as much as 20kg in weight. There’s also a pool kept at 3℃ where you can touch various marine animals, making it a very Hokkaido-like aquarium. One of the biggest traits here is the marine animal park, which makes use of the natural sea. Imposing sea lions and a full 50 seals live here. Additionally, there are multiple harbour porpoises, which are hardly ever seen in the country. Sea lion diving and dolphin shows are frequently held events here, so try to plan an efficient timeframe to match those. For souvenirs, we recommend the plushes of marine animals that can be bought in the gift shop near the exit.

Enjoy a casual French lunch with local pork,
vegetables and other ingredients

Little cafe restaurants dot the streets of the residential area. Using organic Ishikari vegetables, the Atsuda area’s "Mouraiton" brand pork and other local ingredients, the owner and chef puts his French cooking training from many years of hotel training to use. The lunchtime menu is a heap of vegetables and a mini-soup for an appetiser, followed by a main dish of either a seasonala fish dish or a Mouraiton meat dish, and finally a brown rice risotto. Here you can enjoy a delicious and healthy lunch. There are several types of optional desserts as well. The restaurant is loved by local people, and before lunchtime, it offers light meals and drinks for brunch, while after lunch it operates as a cafe offering drinks and sweets.

History and art mingle together.

Otaru prospered as the gateway to the sea and built the foundation of the Hokkaido's economy as the center of the economy. Otaru Art Base, which consists of three facilities utilizing the four buildings that are former Arata Trading Co., former Takahashi Warehouses, former Mitsui Bank Otaru Branch, and former Hokkaido Takushoku Bank Otaru Branch, built during the early 20th Century, when Otaru prospered greatly, is where you can appreciate domestic and foreign arts and crafts that have colored each era, and experience their cultures. “Nitori Museum of Art” begins with stained glass works of Louis C. Tiffany spreading in front of you, and you can appreciate a wide range of art works closely such as Japanese paintings by Taikan Yokoyama, Japanese and overseas Western paintings by Ryusei Kishida and Renoir, wood carvings by Koun Takamura and his disciples, and Art Nouveau and Art Déco glass works. At “The Former Mitsui Bank Otaru Branch”, you can see the inside of the heavy bank building built in 1927. At “Stained Glass Museum”, you can enjoy the beautiful and majestic space of light crafted by the use of stained glass of churches in England.

The delicious taste will remain in your memory! Please enjoy high-quality milk sweets unique to the directly managed store of a ranch.

"Machimura Farm Milk Garden" is a directly managed store of a long-standing ranch, "Machimura Farm″, which has a more than 100 year lasting history. The log-house style shop, which was made by reusing a cowshed, is in the area of a massive ranch of 165 hectares. The scenery of the shop standing in the snow is as cute as a picture book. There is an eating area on the second floor. You can enjoy sweets while viewing the snowy world. The most popular menu is the soft serve ice cream made from raw milk, which is delivered directly from the milk plant in the site. The milk richness and refreshing aftertaste of the soft serve ice cream made from extremely fresh ingredients is so impressive that you can't forget it! Although there are several shops of Machimura Farm all over Japan, Milk Garden has limited items that you can only buy / experience there as it's a directly managed store. Don't miss out! Rich and flavorful "Special Cheesecake" and "Tiramisu For Takeout″, using high-quality ingredients unique to a farm, and "Mini Donut″, which is a small-sized assortment of popular donut flavors, can be good souvenirs. Please also try the warm menu limited to winter such as fondue made with cheese that they are proud of.

Enjoy the feeling of becoming one with nature by jumping into a forest.

There is a nature-rich park with the theme of interaction between the city and rural areas, “Lulu Map Nature Park Fureland” in Eniwa City which is located about 40 minutes drive away from Sapporo. The park can be enjoyed across generations. Forest Adventure Eniwa opened on this site in 2018, and it's an outdoor park under the theme of coexistence with nature. The period of one year is divided into two seasons that are Green Season (mid-April to the end of November) and Winter Season (December to mid-April), and each attraction is designed to be enjoyable. In the Green season, you can enjoy experiencing exciting activities such as the one that you glide on trees like flying squirrels, “Zip Slide” that you slide down about 200 meters from the top of the tree to the ground, and “Tarzan Swing” that you fly in the air like Tarzan with the magnificent nature of Hokkaido. The highlight of winter is “Zip Trip Tour”. It's an activity where you can enjoy forest adventure. The guide staff bringing out the charm of winter will accompany you to the course. The charm is that you can enjoy an extraordinary experience that you can't experience anywhere else as gliding through a snowy field. You can also enjoy the survival game [Laser Tag] , and the [Snowshoe Tour] where you can take a walk while watching nature in the forest. Lulu Map Nature Park Fureland has a lot of facilities to enjoy such as a park golf course, a day camp, a soft-serve ice cream workshop, and a walking path. The whole family can enjoy the whole day.

A food theme park where delicious foods from all over Hokkaido gather around

Hokkaido Loco FARM VILLIGE is located on the 1st floor of the shopping mall “Kitahiroshima Mitsui Outlet Park” where 175 stores are gathered in a store area of about 30,000 square meters. It is a “Food Theme Park” where delicious foods from all over Hokkaido are gathered. This market is specialized in Hokkaido local foods, and offers a wide variety of fresh “Food” of Hokkaido, which you can't find anywhere else such as freshly harvested vegetables, sweets freshly made in the workshop, fresh fish just landed in the morning, and freshly baked bread. Its quality is also credible as well as the rich varieties including original products.Therefore, there are more local customers than tourists. The product we particularly recommend is “Sea Urchin Soy Sauce”. Even though its price is 1200 yen per bottle, which is high, it has become a big hit product that were sold more than 100,000 in two years after it released. The rich flavor of sea urchin is addictive, and has become very popular. We would like you to try it with the meal of rice with a raw egg, by all means. In addition, the service of the fish store, and the taste of all its fish including dried fish are great and popular.

A popular hot spring inn with a radon bath, which is beloved by the townspeople.

Nanporo Onsen Heart & Heart, which is 45 minutes drive away from Sapporo is a popular hot spring inn where springs flow directly from the source. Because it's beloved by the townspeople of Nanporo, always crowded on weekends. The one-day bathing fee is 650 yen, which is reasonable. Radon bath, which is still rare in Hokkaido, is said to be effective for autonomic imbalance and the circulatory system. Although the bathroom is filled with steam, it's said that inhaling it also promotes metabolism, and is good for your body. The natural hot spring is a moor spring of a sodium-chloride strong salt spring, which is light brown, transparent, salty, and odorless. It has a slippery feel, and is a bath that warms you from the core of your body as it is called "Heat Bath". In addition, there is an oxygen bath that is said to be effective for metabolic activity, fatigue recovery, and skin beautification. You can enjoy high-quality bathing in both the indoor and outdoor baths. There is a restaurant "Ajishin" and a shop in the building, and you can also enjoy one-day bathing. "Ajishin" shouldn't be regarded as just an ordinary restaurant in a hot spring facility. The famous menu with the massive volume, Cabbage Tempura Bowl is featured on national television broadcasts, and a lot of customers visit for the menu. In addition to a variety of menus such as noodles, rice bowls, and set meals, there are also many original menus that ingredients from Hokkaido are carefully selected for, so if you come to Nanporo Hot Springs, you should definitely try this restaurant!

Three buildings that stand in a row on a massive site. The "gigantic complex bookstore" is beyond the level of an ordinary "bookstore".

The"gigantic complex bookstore"consists of three buildings of "Food", "Knowledge", and "Living" on the concept of "slow life in a rural city". 12 stores are in the food park, the"Food Building". There are a lot of famous restaurants where you can enjoy a variety of foods such as curry, tantan noodles, dim sum, and hamburgers as well as the Italian restaurant, "nodo", produced by Chef Hideki Horikawa, who is a leading person of Hokkaido's Italian cuisine. The"Knowledge Building", located in the center, has a massive amount of books. You can read almost all books before buying them while having coffee there as they apply to the "Book＆Café" style. There are power receptacles and free WiFi available in the work space on the 2nd floor. You can use the space for extensive purposes such as opening your laptop for working, or preparing theses / reports by utilizing many books in the bookstore. Books for kids and creative items are available in the"Living Building". The kid's book section has one of the largest space with a wide assortment of items in Hokkaido. There are shops such as "BørneLund", which sells imported toys useful for education of kids, a select shop of lighting and furniture, and a shop that sells outdoor goods and sportswear in the building. You don't get bored even if you spend all day in the theme park of books and living.

Limited wine and soft serve ice cream are popular at the Hokkaido winery.

The winery is the first winery in Iwamizawa. It's located in Hosui district, which has beautiful scenery and rich nature, The building with a red triangular roof was built using old materials. There are both a winery and a direct sales depot in the building. The scenery is coupled with the vineyard next to it, and it's like a rural town in southern France. The "RICCA" series using grape of own vineyard, the "Snow Genealogy" series of high-class brands, and wines limited to the shop are sold at the direct sales depot on the 1st floor. If you have questions about the characteristics of wine or how to choose wine, etc., please ask the staff, and they are more than happy to answer you! Since the brewery is in the same building, you can also tour around it while shopping. Art works inspired by the brewing process, etc. are displayed in the gallery on the 2nd floor of the building.When you get tired, you can also sit on a chair equipped, and take a break. Soft serve ice cream with homemade grape juice on it is very popular at the soft serve ice cream shop "Vieagrest", which is located next to the direct sales depot. You can select from two types of sauces - white grape sauce and red grape sauce. The soft serve ice cream is even tastier while viewing the vineyard of the winery! You should definitely try the sweet at least once! (Soft serve ice cream is on sale during a limited time.)

The Hokkaido's rural landscape with vivid colors spreads out on a gentle hill.

When heading towards the direction of Higashioka from Route 337, you can see a gently undulating hill at an altitude of 60 to 100 m. This place is called Palette Hill. Flowers of brassica hirta bloom in early summer, and sunflowers planted for green manure bloom in autumn there. The agricultural products make a patchwork, and you can also look out over the mountains of Yubari from a distance ... You can enjoy the Hokkaido's beautiful and grand rural landscape with the contrast between the sky and the earth. Please be noted that because the sunflower field is a private property, entering there is not allowed.

Enjoy fresh fish and fireside dishes with specially selected wine in a stylish restaurant where you can feel the warmth of wood.

This bar, which was opened as a “neo general public Izakaya” in Febyuary 2020, is a collaboration bar between “GAKU inc.”, which handles popular stores such as risotto specialty stores and night parfait specialty stores in Hokkaido, and the fishery intermediate wholesaler, “Ichiuroko Cooperative Fisheries”. Enjoy fresh seasonal fish and shellfish, which are judged by “fish selection craftsmen” who identify good quality fish in the fish market, with sashimi, fritto, meuniere, pasta and such. “Fish selection craftsman, Honma-mon Sashimi” is also fun to pair with the recommended high-quality sake selected by sake advisors. The dish particularly recommended is “Charcoal-Grilled Aqua Gozza” made by a chef who has trained in the Apulia region of southern Italy as a fusion of the Naples fishermen's dish, “Aqua Pazza” and “Robata (a fireside used for Japanese‐style barbecue, Robatayaki.)”. Every time you go, you will discover something new with the “Today's Fresh Fish” lineup, which varies from day to day, and the “Chef's Recommendation Course” chosen by an Italian chef.

Kamameshi that is making the most of fresh ingredients unique to Hokkaido

A popular restaurant that customers make a long queue for offers Kamameshi making the most of seasonal ingredients from Hokkaido. Kamameshi that is making the most of fresh ingredients unique to Hokkaido such as hair crabs, scallops and salmon roe. Although the Ichie's Special Kamameshi that contains gorgeous seafood ingredients as much as it can lift the lid is particularly popular out of more than 30 types of menus, you can't miss the seasonal Kamameshi using ingredients of each season. “Rebun Hokke Mackerel & Botan Shrimp Kamameshi”, “Raw Surf Clam Mushroom Butter Kamameshi”, “Salmon Roe Kamameshi”, “Sweet & Spicy Flavored Boiled Kamameshi”, “Thick-Sliced Salmon & Salmon Roe Kamameshi”. Just reading these names of the dishes make us hungry! It's not just seafood. There are also plenty of menus of Hokkaido meat such as “Hitomai Beef Steak Kamameshi” using Tokachi brand beef “Hitomai Beef”, “Kakuni Kamameshi of Eniwa Grazing Pork”, and “Hokkaido Local Chicken & Spicy Cod Roe Kamameshi”. In order to taste fresh, and rich ingredients most deliciously centered on Hokkaido ingredients, we use local rice of Eniwa, and start cooking Kamameshi only after receiving orders. In addition to Kamameshi, there are also plenty of extensive menus such as Ankake Fried Noodles which are popular for their crispy noodles, Assorted Nigiri Sushi, and skewered and fried foods. We cherish every single encounter, and in order to deliver safe and secure seasonal Hokkaido dishes, we are particular about not only the condition of seasoning and cooking, but the way of serving and staff service too. There are a wide variety of alcoholic beverages too, so you can enjoy it as an Izakaya restaurant at night. (The menu varies depending on the season)