Where Sapporo shops, snacks and lunches: the markets worth your morning.
Food markets, farmers markets and covered halls: where Sapporo shops, snacks and lunches.
Sapporo's reference fish market, founded around 1903 by Ishikari fishermen. Crab tanks, salmon counters, scallops, sea urchin and the morning donburi shops.
Go for: Crab, Uni, Salmon roe, Kaisendon
Tip: Walk in early; the queue stretches by 09:00 in summer. Most stalls take card.
The Sapporo Central Wholesale Market's retail side, around 60 stalls of Hokkaido seafood and produce. Morning sashimi-don shops open with the market.
Go for: Crab, Scallops, Salmon roe, Hokkaido produce
Tip: Arrive before 09:00; restaurants open 07:00 with the first market deliveries.
The basement food hall under Daimaru Sapporo, with Hokkaido's confectionery houses (Rokkatei, Ishiya, Kinotoya), bento counters and prepared takeaway food.
Go for: Hokkaido sweets, Bento, Wagashi, Souvenir food
Tip: The Hokkaido souvenir floor here is the closest source to the platforms.
Hokkaido's oldest covered shopping arcade since 1873. Seven blocks of cafes, izakaya, sake stands and souvenir food shops in the city's commercial spine.
Go for: Souvenir food, Casual eating, Snacks, Izakaya
Tip: Open through dinner; the arcade is the wet-weather walkable alternative to outdoor shopping.
Stellar Place 6F over Sapporo Station, around 40 restaurants from Boulangerie Coron to Hokkaido-themed conveyor sushi. The closest to the platforms.
Go for: Dining, Department-store food, Quick lunches
Tip: Stellar 6F has the easiest pre-train ramen and bakeries; the basement food hall is the souvenir floor.
The Sapporo Factory mall on the former brewery site, around 30 restaurants across a five-storey atrium plus a Hokkaido food court on the third floor.
Go for: Family eating, Casual lunches, Hokkaido souvenir food
Tip: Free parking weekends; the atrium hosts seasonal markets year-round.