The best Yaki-Tokibi (Grilled Corn) and Jaga-Bata in Sapporo
Also spelt yaki tokibi, 焼きとうきび, tokibi and とうきび. A curated shortlist, shaped by your votes.
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Number 1.Tokibi Wagon, Odori Park Nishi 3-chome
- Open
- 9am to 7pm, mid April to mid October, open in rain
- Where
- Odori Park Nishi 3-chome (fountain end), Chuo-ku, Sapporo 060-0042
Order the grilled cob, brushed with a soy tare carrying kombu dashi, beet sugar and acacia honey. This is the wagon that trades in rain and until 7pm; it packs up for winter in mid October.
What to orderYaki-tokibi, the soy-basted grilled cob (500 yen)
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Number 2.Ajihyakusen
- Open
- 4.30pm to 10pm, shut Sundays and public holidays
- Where
- Miyazawa Building B1, Kita 7-jo Nishi 4-4-2, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0807
The jagaimo no batani is a whole May Queen simmered five hours in katsuo dashi and butter. It is a limited plate: book by the day before and arrive before 7pm, or you will not get it.
What to orderJagaimo no butter-ni, whole May Queen in dashi butter (770 yen)
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Number 3.Umi-aji Hachikyo Honten
- Open
- 6pm to midnight, from 5pm Sundays and holidays
- Where
- Miyako Building 1F, Minami 3-jo Nishi 3, Chuo-ku, Sapporo 060-0063
Come for the tsukko-meshi if you like, but order the hokuhoku jagabata with squid shiokara, built on Tokachi May Queen. Book ahead because it fills nightly, and a 500 yen cover charge lands on every table.
What to orderHokuhoku jaga-bata with squid shiokara (590 yen)
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Hitsujigaoka Observation Hill Takeout Corner
- Open
- 9am to 6pm June to September, to 5pm rest of year
- Where
- Sapporo Hitsujigaoka Observation Hill, Hitsujigaoka 1, Toyohira-ku, Sapporo 062-0045
The takeout counter by the Austria House grills corn and does a very large buttered potato, frozen cobs in winter and fresh from summer. Admission to the hill costs 1,000 yen, paid before you reach either.
What to orderYaki-tokibi from the Austria House takeout counter
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Kogai Shoten
- Open
- 3pm to 9pm weekdays, noon to 6pm Saturday, shut Sunday
- Where
- Kita 2-jo Higashi 11-23, Chuo-ku, Sapporo (one minute from JR Naebo Station)
A sake shop by Naebo station where drinking happens standing up. Order the shiokara jagabata, Kutchan potato under Hakodate squid shiokara. It opens at 3pm on weekdays and shuts on Sundays and holidays.
What to orderShiokara jaga-bata (550 yen)
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Sato Suisan Odori Park
- Open
- 9.30am to 6.30pm daily, shut 1 and 2 January
- Where
- Hokuyo Building 1F, Odori Nishi 3, Chuo-ku, Sapporo (Odori Station exit 15)
Ask for the jagabata shokunin and take the shiokara topping if you live here, the Ishikari salmon if you do not. Indoors, open all year, but the eat-in corner is only a few stools.
What to orderJagabata Shokunin with aki-zake Ishikari topping (380 yen)
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Iine
- Open
- 11am to 5pm, closing days vary
- Where
- Kita 11-jo Nishi 21-2-20, Chuo-ku, Sapporo (nine minutes from Nijuyonken Station)
Above a fishmonger near Nijuyonken, this one runs on daytime hours only. The shiokara jagabata is 600 yen and the plain version 400, so pay the extra. Twenty seats, and closing days move without notice.
What to orderShiokara jaga-bata (600 yen)
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Issho Hei-ten
- Open
- 5pm to 11.30pm, from 4pm at weekends
- Where
- Suzuran Building 6F, Minami 4-jo Nishi 4-5-2, Chuo-ku, Sapporo 064-0804
The stone-grilled jagabata arrives spitting at the table, potato chunks under butter and shiokara. Only the Hei branch on the sixth floor does it, so do not walk into the main shop by mistake.
What to orderAtsuatsu ishiyaki jaga-bata, stone-grilled (780 yen)
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