A Sapporo morning bowl of vinegared rice topped with the day's Hokkaido seafood, typically a three-colour stack of king crab, sea urchin and salmon ikura.
Kaisendon (mixed seafood over rice) is a national Japanese format, but the Sapporo version emerged at Nijo Market and the Sapporo Curb Market in the 1980s as the markets' donburi shops codified a three-colour topping rule: king crab, sea urchin and salmon ikura. By the 1990s, sanshoku-don (three-colour) was the postcard order at every market shop; the 2010s saw the formats expand to four-colour and seven-colour configurations at Nijo Market's Ohiso shop and others. The bowl now defines Sapporo morning eating.
3 editor picks for Hokkaido Kaisendon (Three-Colour Seafood Bowl) in Sapporo, ranked by editorial score. All Sapporo signature dishes · Hokkaido Kaisendon (Three-Colour Seafood Bowl) across every city.
Sapporo Kani Honke Honten ★ 4.2
sapporo-station · Chuo-ku, Sapporo 060-0003, Japan
The seven-storey Honten near Sapporo Station, the city's reference crab restaurant since 1964, working all three Hokkaido crabs across course menus.
Hokkaido Kani Shogun ★ 4.2
susukino · Chuo-ku, Sapporo 064-0805, Japan
Susukino's other heavyweight crab house in Sapporo. Six floors of course menus across king, snow and hairy crab, plus a third-floor sushi counter.
Nijo Ichiba Ohiso ★ 4.1
nijo-market · Chuo-ku, Sapporo 060-0053, Japan
A Nijo Market sushi-and-donburi counter run by a Hakodate fishmonger. The Sapporo-style kaisendon stacks raw crab, uni and ikura over rice; market hours.