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A loaf of soft bread baked around a tube of chikuwa fish cake stuffed with tuna-mayo salad and topped with more mayo. The Sapporo bakery icon, invented 1983 at Donguri.
Chikuwa pan was invented in 1983 by the founders of Donguri bakery on Odori, looking for a way to use chikuwa (a Japanese fish cake tube) in a bakery context. The bread became the city's signature bakery item within a decade; Donguri now sells around 2,300 a day across its nine Sapporo branches. The pan is also a souvenir export to Tokyo and Osaka through department-store food halls, although Sapporo's version stays the canonical bake.
2 editor picks for Chikuwa Pan (Fish-Cake Bread) in Sapporo, ranked by editorial score. All Sapporo signature dishes · Chikuwa Pan (Fish-Cake Bread) across every city.
Donguri Odori ★ 4.4
odori · Chuo-ku, Sapporo 060-0042, Japan
The bakery that invented chikuwa pan in 1983. Donguri sells around 2,300 of the fish-cake-and-mayo loaves a day across its nine Sapporo branches.
Donguri Susukino ★ 4.1
susukino · Chuo-ku, Sapporo 060-0063, Japan
Donguri's Susukino arcade branch, open later than the Odori shop with the same chikuwa-pan menu plus an extended evening curry-pan and pizza-pan line.
Learn to cook it, or eat it with a guide
Chikuwa Pan (Fish-Cake Bread) makes more sense with someone from Sapporo explaining it. These are the classes and tours we have checked, with booking links.
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