Many tourists from Hong Kong and Taiwan tend to go to the same restaurants that are listed on the guide books. In Sapporo, the Kaiten-sushi Nemuro Hanamaru in Stella Place at JR station is one of the most popular kaiten-sushi restaurants. The queue for dinner has been extended from an average of 45 minutes when I first went 10 years ago to 1 hour to 1.5 hours recently. Most of the customers in line are tourists.
There is a good reason for the long queue: convenient, good taste and inexpensive. Nemuro is a sea port where most of the fish are caught fresh from the sea. That’s also where Hanamaru sushi chain started. However, the long queue of tourists has made the restaurant less appealing.
In search for another good sushi restaurant near the Sapporo JR station, I found a good alternative: same restaurant chain, good food, freshly made sushi (not from the conveyor belt), and in the same JR station.
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