The best Soft Cream (Hokkaido Milk Soft Serve) in Sapporo
Also spelt soft cream, ソフトクリーム, sofuto kurimu and soft serve. A curated shortlist, shaped by your votes.
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Number 1.KINOTOYA BAKE, Marui Imai branch
- Open
- 10.30am to 8pm with the department store
- Where
- Marui Imai Sapporo Honten Odori-kan B2, Minami 1-jo Nishi 2, Chuo-ku, Sapporo
Gokujo Gyunyu Soft is the order, dense enough to hold its shape, or take the version with a warm financier pressed into it. The department store basement shuts at eight and there is nowhere to sit.
What to orderGokujo Gyunyu Soft, cone only
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Number 2.Hakko Gakuen Farm Stand
- Open
- 10am to 4pm, shut Thursdays; soft cream Apr to Nov
- Where
- Hakko Gakuen Hokkaido Agricultural College, Tsukisamu-Higashi 2-jo 13-1-12, Toyohira-ku, Sapporo
The Tsukisap soft cream, 400 yen, from the agricultural college's own herd, restrained and very milky. It is sold from mid April to early November only, the stand shuts at four, and Thursday is the closed day.
What to orderTsukisap soft cream, cone or cup
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Number 3.Maruyama Gyunyu Hanbaiten (Maruyama honten)
- Open
- 11am to 6pm, shut Tuesdays
- Where
- Minami 1-jo Nishi 24-1-14, Chuo-ku, Sapporo
Two soft creams here: the milk one made without any cream at all, from Betsukai raw milk, and a richer sibling. Tuesdays are closed. The Urasando queue is real, so go before noon or after four.
What to orderGyunyu soft cream, the no-cream one
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Yukijirushi Parlour Sapporo Honten (Snow Brand Parlour)
- Open
- 10am to 7pm, last orders 6.30pm
- Where
- 1F Taiyo Seimei Sapporo Building, Kita 2-jo Nishi 3-1-31, Chuo-ku, Sapporo
The Hokkaido milk soft is the one to order here, not the sundaes. The kitchen stops at 6.30pm though the shop stays open until seven, so an evening detour can arrive too late.
What to orderHokkaido Gyunyu Soft (Hokkaido milk soft cream)
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Kitakaro Sapporo Honkan
- Open
- 10am to 6pm; 2nd floor cafe 11am to 4pm
- Where
- Kita 1-jo Nishi 5-1-2, Chuo-ku, Sapporo
Soft cream comes from the ground floor counter of a converted library building, worth pairing with a Baumkuchen offcut. Doors close at six and the upstairs cafe stops serving at four, so come early for a seat.
What to orderHokkaido raw milk soft cream at the ground floor counter
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Shiroi Koibito Akarenga sweets labo
- Open
- 10am to 6pm, to 7pm in high summer
- Where
- Akarenga Chosha (former Hokkaido Government Office) 1F, Kita 3-jo Nishi 6-1, Chuo-ku, Sapporo
Ask for the Shiroi Koibito soft cream at the counter inside the red brick building, 500 yen. Weekend afternoons queue. Closing is 6pm for most of the year, later only in high summer.
What to orderShiroi Koibito soft cream, with the chocolate worked through
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BARNES
- Open
- 10am to 6pm or until sold out, shut Thu and Fri
- Where
- Miyanomori 4-jo 10-4-16, inside the Jokoku-ji temple car park, Chuo-ku, Sapporo
Nakashibetsu milk goes into the standard rich soft cream, sold from a hut in a temple car park. It closes when the mix runs out, often before six, and the closed days recently moved to Thursday and Friday.
What to orderNoko Milk, the standard rich milk soft cream
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Museum Cafe Polus (Hokkaido University Museum)
- Open
- 10am to 5.30pm, shut Mondays with the museum
- Where
- Hokkaido University Museum, Kita 10-jo Nishi 8, Kita-ku, Sapporo
Grass-fed milk from the Hagihara farm in Nishiokoppe goes into the soft cream, eaten inside the university museum. The museum shuts on Mondays and the cafe with it, so pick a weekday that is not one.
What to orderHagihara Bokujo grass-fed milk soft cream
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SUN MILK JAPAN
- Open
- 10am to 9pm daily
- Where
- COCONO SUSUKINO B1F, Minami 4-jo Nishi 4-1, Chuo-ku, Sapporo
One minute off the Susukino crossing, down in the COCONO basement, the soft cream is made with grass-fed milk from 550 yen. Skip the 888 yen Twin Tower unless two of you are sharing it.
What to orderGrass-fed milk soft cream, single
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Machimura Farm
- Open
- 10am to 8pm
- Where
- Odori Bisse 1F, Odori Nishi 3-7, Chuo-ku, Sapporo
Milk from the Ebetsu dairy, churned into a soft cream that reads gentle rather than heavy. Carry it over to Odori Park, because the seating inside Bisse is shared and fills up at lunchtime.
What to orderMachimura Farm milk soft cream
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Milk Moustache Challenge
- Open
- 10am to 5pm, irregular closures
- Where
- Toyohira 3-jo 9-2-6, Toyohira-ku, Sapporo
Additive-free soft cream from a contract farm's milk, sold out of a small Toyohira shopfront from ten until five. Closing days are irregular, so check the shop's Instagram on the morning you plan to go.
What to orderThe plain milk soft cream, no additives
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Tsuki Terrace
- Open
- 11am to 6pm, irregular closures
- Where
- Hassamu 8-jo 11-1-32 1F, Nishi-ku, Sapporo
Hamanaka milk blended for the soft cream, first sold off a van and now from a Hassamu shopfront. Closing days are irregular, so check the Instagram feed before crossing the city; last orders 5.30pm.
What to orderThe original Hamanaka milk blend soft cream
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Queen's Soft Cream Cafe
- Open
- 10am to 9pm, soft cream last order 8.55pm
- Where
- moyuk SAPPORO 1F, Minami 2-jo Nishi 3-20, Chuo-ku, Sapporo
Yamanaka farm's low-temperature pasteurised milk, served on a floral cone for 500 yen just inside moyuk's ground floor. Soft cream last orders are at 8.55pm, a few minutes before the building itself shuts.
What to orderYamanaka Bokujo soft cream on the floral cone
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Komichi
- Open
- 9.30am to 5pm, 4pm November to March
- Where
- Sapporo Nijo Market, Minami 3-jo Higashi 1, Chuo-ku, Sapporo
Low temperature pasteurised Hokkaido milk under a whole strawberry, the Ichigo Marugoto On at 600 yen. Queues form inside the market by mid morning, and the shutters come down at five, four in winter.
What to orderIchigo Marugoto On, soft cream with a whole strawberry
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