Hokkaido

Hanamaru Sushi from Nemuro

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.

Sushi Hanamaru 四季花まる
Siki Hanamaru is in the basement (restaurant floor) of Paseo West shopping Mall in Sapporo JR station. It’s the same restaurant chain as the Kaiten-sushi in Stella Place. There was a queue but no where near the long line for Kaiten-sushi in Stella Place. Everyone in the queue were Japanese.
四季花まる在札幌站 Paseo West 商場地下(餐廳層),是根室迴轉壽司同一集團餐廳,門口有長龍但沒有Stella Place 的迴轉壽司那麼誇張,而且差不多所有排隊的都是日本人。
Sushi Hanamaru 四季花まる
The authentic sushi bar setting offers counter seats and tables. But there is no conveyor belt, all sushi are served on a-la-carte base and hand-made by the chefs at the sushi bar.
傳統的壽司吧除了有吧檯,也有較舒適的座椅,有些店更有和式座位。而壽司則是單點,師傅在你面前即叫即做,十分新鮮。
Sushi Hanamaru 四季花まる
I ordered 4 dishes of sushi and a soup. This is tuna.
我點了4款壽司和一碗湯。這是吞拿魚。
Sushi Hanamaru 四季花まる
Tai sushi. 鯛魚壽司。
Sushi Hanamaru 四季花まる
Sujiko sushi (salmon roe). 筋子壽司。
Sushi Hanamaru 四季花まる
The not-to-be-missed seafood in Hokkaido: uni sushi.
到北海道不能錯過的海產:海膽壽司。
Sushi Hanamaru 四季花まる
Another Hokkaido special: crab soup. The dinner cost ¥2,321 (around HK$165).
另一北海道美食:蟹湯。晚餐共¥2,321 (約HK$165)。
Sushi Hanamaru 四季花まる
Address: PASEO WEST B1F, Sapporo JR Station. TEL:011-213-5870
地址:札幌站 Paseo West B1F. 電話:011-213-5870
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