The best Kaisendon (Seafood Rice Bowl) in Sapporo
Also spelt kaisendon, 海鮮丼, kaisen don and seafood bowl. A curated shortlist, shaped by your votes.
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Number 1.Kaisen Shokudo Ajino Niko
- Open
- 7am to 3pm, Wednesdays usually shut
- Where
- 2-16, Kita 10-jo Nishi 21-chome, Chuo-ku, Sapporo (Sapporo Curb Market)
The market's original kaisendon counter, trading since 1970 and now on its third generation. Order the medium kaisendon, eight seasonal cuts. Wednesday closures are irregular rather than fixed, so ring first.
What to orderKaisendon, medium size, with miso soup
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Number 2.Nijo Ichiba Ohiso (flagship)
- Open
- 7.30am to 3.30pm, shut Wednesdays
- Where
- Minami 3-jo Higashi 2-chome, Chuo-ku, Sapporo (Nijo Market, corner of Minami 2-jo-dori and Nakamachi-dori)
The longest queue in Nijo Market forms at this corner shop. Order the Ohiso-don, ten-odd cuts sliced thick, and add the bafun uni if funds allow. Wednesdays are closed.
What to orderOhiso-don, with bafun uni added
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Number 3.Kaisen-dokoro Sakanaya no Daidokoro (Nijo Ichiba honten)
- Open
- 7am to 5pm, or until the fish runs out
- Where
- Konishi Building 1F, Minami 2-jo Higashi 2-chome, Chuo-ku, Sapporo
Yellow awning across from Ohiso, run by a man who buys his own fish each morning. Take the omakase kaisendon jo, roughly twenty cuts. They close when the fish goes, not at five.
What to orderOmakase kaisendon (jo), around twenty cuts
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Kaisen Shokudo Kita no Gurume-tei
- Open
- 7am to 2.30pm, open daily
- Where
- 4-1, Kita 11-jo Nishi 22-chome, Chuo-ku, Sapporo (Sapporo Curb Market)
Three hundred seats attached to a seafood shop, so you rarely wait. The kaisendon carries about fifteen toppings including the house ikura in soy. Kitchen winds down mid-afternoon; the free hotel shuttle needs booking.
What to orderKaisendon, about fifteen toppings
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Sakanaya Gannen
- Open
- From 8am until sold out, shut Wednesday and Thursday
- Where
- Alpha Court 1F, Minami 3-jo Higashi 1-chome 5, Chuo-ku, Sapporo
Locals and people in town on business eat breakfast here rather than tourists. The six-colour bowl brings tuna, scallop, snow crab, salmon, octopus and Kushiro ikura. Two closed days, Wednesday and Thursday.
What to orderRokushoku-don, the six-colour bowl
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Donbei (Sapporo Asaichi branch)
- Open
- 7am to 1pm, shut Sundays; bara-chirashi gone by 8am
- Where
- 1-20, Kita 12-jo Nishi 20-chome, Chuo-ku, Sapporo (inside Sapporo Asaichi)
Market traders eat here before any tourist finds the place. The kaisen bara-chirashi costs 550 yen, but only five or six are made and they go by half past seven. Closed Sundays and holidays.
What to orderKaisen bara-chirashi, 550 yen
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Donburi Chaya (Sapporo Nijo Ichiba branch)
- Open
- 7.30am to 4.30pm summer, 8am to 5pm winter
- Where
- Minami 3-jo Higashi 1-7, Chuo-ku, Sapporo (inside Shin-Nijo Market)
Started by a fishmonger, and the board still lists forty-odd bowls. The okami no kaisendon changes with the boats each day. In winter it opens at eight rather than half seven, so check before an early start.
What to orderOkami no kaisendon, about ten daily cuts
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Shihachi Sengyoten (Tanuki COMICHI branch)
- Open
- 10am to 11pm, closing days vary
- Where
- Tanuki COMICHI 1F, Minami 2-jo Nishi 2-chome 5, Chuo-ku, Sapporo
A fishmonger's own counter inside the Tanuki COMICHI hall on the arcade. Ask for the meibutsu kaisendon, the daily multi-cut bowl. The Kita 24-jo original is cheaper, and this branch cannot make everything on the menu.
What to orderMeibutsu kaisendon, the daily multi-cut bowl
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Teishoku Meshiya
- Open
- 7am to 3pm, shut Wednesdays
- Where
- 1-26 Oroshiuri Center, Kita 11-jo Nishi 22-chome, Chuo-ku, Sapporo
Buried in the Oroshiuri Center building, which is why visitors walk past it. Ask for the kaisen yonhin don, crab, ikura, salmon and scallop, though it stops at eleven. Shut Wednesdays.
What to orderKaisen yonhin don, before 11am
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Kaisendon-ya Oguma Shoten
- Open
- 7am to 2pm, open daily except 1 January
- Where
- Minami 3-jo Higashi 1-chome 8, Chuo-ku, Sapporo (inside Nijo Market)
Seven seats at the counter and six tables out on the lane, so come early or stand about. The premium tairyo ten-topping bowl arrives with ara-jiru. Last orders are quarter to two, not two.
What to orderPremium tairyo ju-shu-mori, ten toppings
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Ofunazushi
- Open
- Lunch noon to 2pm only, shut Mondays
- Where
- Kotoni Corpo 1F, Nijuyonken 2-jo 1-chome, Nishi-ku, Sapporo
Ten minutes from Nijuyonken station, and the shop Sapporo's own food writers send people to first. The nama-chirashi set B comes in under 2,000 yen with soup and chawanmushi. Booking is not optional here.
What to orderNama-chirashi set B
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Oshasami Izakaya Ruku & Uohei
- Open
- 11.30am to 11pm, closed 2.30 to 4pm on weekdays
- Where
- Minami 2-jo Nishi 6-chome, Chuo-ku, Sapporo (west end of Tanukikoji 6-chome)
Forty years at the west end of the arcade, full of Sapporo people drinking through lunch. The tokumori kaisendon is 2,280 yen and the ara-jiru refills are free. Weekdays it shuts between half two and four.
What to orderTokumori kaisendon
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Daiichi Kaisenmaru
- Open
- 7am to 2pm, noon Mondays and Fridays, shut Wednesdays
- Where
- Minami 3-jo Higashi 1-8-2, Chuo-ku, Sapporo (inside Nijo Market)
Forty-four bowls on the board, which slows every table down. Go for the Shakotan-don, plus the crab soup that changes kind daily. Small room, and on Mondays and Fridays it stops serving at noon.
What to orderShakotan-don with the crab soup
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Miyuki-chan Teishoku
- Open
- 11am to 9pm, or until the food runs out
- Where
- Kita 18-jo Nishi 5-2-35, Kita-ku, Sapporo
Student territory near Hokkaido University, and the portions follow. The kaisendon teishoku is 1,320 yen and buries the rice entirely. Pairing it with the tokujo sushi saves 770 yen. Kitchen closes when supplies go.
What to orderKaisendon teishoku, paired with tokujo sushi
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