Chūō has Edomae and Ezo-mae omakase counters focused on Hokkaido seafood. Their drinks programmes include wine and sake, with a sommelier-led programme at Sushi Sohei.
Sushi Miyakawa serves Edomae-style omakase with seasonal seafood at a small counter in Chūō. Its drinks include wine and a sake programme. The restaurant holds Tabelog Silver recognition and an Opinionated About Dining recommendation.
Sushisai Wakichi is an Edomae counter in Chūō serving Hokkaido seafood omakase. A solo chef focuses on ingredient quality and traditional sushi craftsmanship. Wine and sake accompany the cooking, which has earned Tabelog Bronze recognition.
Arima serves Ezo-mae omakase nigiri at a small sushi counter in Chūō, drawing on Hokkaido's seasonal cold-water seafood. Its drinks programme includes wine and sake. Tabelog Bronze and Opinionated About Dining recognition accompany that seafood focus.
Sushi Sohei applies Edomae technique to Hokkaido seafood at a compact counter in Chūō. Its exceptional wine programme is sommelier-led, alongside a sake selection to match the fish. The restaurant holds a Tabelog Bronze award.
Hokkaido ingredients shape French tasting menus in Chūō and Piedmont-inspired Italian cooking in Teine. The drinks range from wine lists to natural wine and sommelier-led selections.
aki nagao combines Hokkaido ingredients with modern French technique in Chūō. Its tasting-menu format is supported by an exceptional wine programme, natural wine, sake and sommelier-led drinks. The restaurant has earned Tabelog Silver recognition.
Le Musee IDEA serves contemporary French tasting menus in an art-focused dining space in Chūō. Wood-fired cooking draws on seasonal Hokkaido ingredients, accompanied by wine and a sake programme. Its awards include Tabelog Bronze recognition.
PARCO FIERA is a Teine counter restaurant serving Piedmont-inspired Italian tasting menus with Hokkaido fish and produce. House-made cured meats, prosciutto and fermented condiments shape the courses, alongside a wine list and Tabelog Silver recognition.
Chūō has seasonal kaiseki and a Takasaka chicken specialist, while Kita has Kyoto-style kaiseki. These counter and tasting-menu formats include wine and sake programmes.
Hanakoji Sawada serves kaiseki in Chūō with seasonal Hokkaido ingredients at an intimate counter. Its formats include omakase and tasting menus, with wine and a sake programme. Opinionated About Dining has recognised the restaurant with a recommendation.
Nukumi is a contemporary kaiseki counter in Chūō where seasonal Hokkaido ingredients are grilled over binchotan charcoal. Fish-focused tasting menus are accompanied by wine and sake. Its recognition includes Tabelog Bronze and an Opinionated About Dining recommendation.
Suyama serves Kyoto-style kaiseki in Kita, using seasonal Hokkaido ingredients in a tasting-menu format. The room has a cherry wood counter and a drinks programme that includes sake and wine. The restaurant holds Tabelog Bronze recognition.
Higebozu is a yakitori specialist in Chūō serving Takasaka chicken around a U-shaped grill. Its counter-dining format includes a wine list and sake. The restaurant holds Tabelog Bronze recognition and selections for Tabelog's yakitori list.
Miso ramen connects specialist restaurants in Sapporo and Otaru. Sapporo also has Japanese curry counters and spicy Chinese cooking with an extensive wine list.
Sumire Sapporo susukino ten is a long-established ramen shop in Chūō known for traditional miso ramen. Counter seating and an à la carte format define the room. Its cooking has earned selection for Tabelog's Hokkaido ramen list.
Ramen Mikan serves rich Sumire-style miso ramen in Minami Otaru. The compact restaurant has counter seating and an à la carte format, bringing Hokkaido ramen into Otaru's specialist dining scene. It has earned Tabelog recognition for its ramen.
Ichimonji Curry Ten is a small Japanese curry house in Shiroishi serving richly flavoured Sapporo-style curries. Counter and table seating support its casual à la carte format. The restaurant has earned repeated recognition on Tabelog's curry list.
Local Chinese Food Shifan serves spicy Sichuan-style dishes in a compact, counter-led restaurant in Chūō. Its formats include set menus and à la carte dining. An extensive wine list and a beer programme accompany the Chinese cooking.
Chūō has wine programmes at aki nagao, Sushi Sohei and Le Musee IDEA. aki nagao offers natural wine and sommelier-led drinks, Sushi Sohei combines an exceptional wine programme with sake, and Le Musee IDEA has wine alongside French tasting menus.
Our guide includes no Michelin-starred restaurants across Sapporo and Otaru. It covers 300 restaurants in Sapporo and 12 in Otaru, with no Michelin stars in total across those restaurant selections.
Chūō has French tasting menus at aki nagao and Le Musee IDEA, plus omakase at Sushi Miyakawa and Sushisai Wakichi. Teine adds Piedmont-inspired Italian tasting menus at PARCO FIERA, while Kita has Kyoto-style kaiseki tasting menus at Suyama.
aki nagao offers natural wine. shimoyamitenaeizuru combines natural wine with an extensive wine list. Local Chinese Food Shifan has an extensive wine list at its counter-led Sichuan-style restaurant in Chūō.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
Awards in Sapporo Area
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Sapporo Area
Selected entries from the current guide for Sapporo Area.
Sapporo, Japan
Tucked into Sapporo's Miyanomori residential quarter, Le Musee IDEA operates from a 12-seat second-floor dining room where French technique meets Hokkaido produce with unusual intensity. Chef Makoto Ishii has earned consecutive Tabelog Bronze Awards from 2024 through 2026 and two selections for the Tabelog French EAST Top 100. Reservation-only, with dinner priced in the JPY 40,000–49,999 range and a 10% service charge.
Sapporo, Japan
A seven-seat counter in Sapporo's Maruyama district, Sushi Miyakawa has earned consecutive Tabelog Silver Awards from 2024 through 2026 and a place in the Tabelog Sushi EAST Top 100 for 2025. The course, priced at 32,000 yen inclusive of tax and service, runs across two tightly managed evening sessions. Reservations open by phone at 11 AM on the first business day of each month.
Sapporo, Japan
A seven-seat counter in Sapporo's Teine Ward that has earned Tabelog Silver recognition three consecutive years (2024, 2025, 2026) and a score of 4.45, placing it among Japan's most closely watched Italian addresses outside Tokyo. The format is reservation-only, course-only, and anchored in Hokkaido's fish and produce, with house-made prosciutto and homemade condiments threading the progression together.
Sapporo, Japan
An eight-seat Edomae counter in Sapporo's Maruyama district, Sushisai Wakichi has held Tabelog recognition continuously since 2017 and earned selection to the Sushi EAST Tabelog 100 in 2021, 2022, and 2025. Chef Mitsuaki Tamura runs a reservation-only omakase at 36,000 yen all-in, with a Tabelog score of 4.28 placing it among Hokkaido's most consistently decorated sushi counters. Bookings open three months ahead via the restaurant's own website.
Sapporo, Japan
A Tabelog Bronze Award winner every year from 2021 through 2026, Suyama pursues tea kaiseki through the specific lens of Hokkaido's ingredient seasons, operating at 14 seats in Odori West, Sapporo. Dinner runs JPY 30,000–39,999 with a drinks program that takes sake and wine selection seriously, alongside a BYO policy that few kaiseki rooms in the city extend.
Sapporo, Japan
Sapporo’s high-end dining scene is not only seafood counters and lamb grills; French technique has its own serious tier, especially when it works with Hokkaido produce rather than against it. aki nagao belongs in that category, with Tabelog Award Silver recognition for 2026, repeated Bronze awards from 2020 to 2025, and selection for Tabelog French EAST 100 in 2021, 2023, and 2025.
Sapporo, Japan
Sushi Dokoro Arima is a seven-seat counter in Sapporo's Chuo Ward, earning consecutive Tabelog Bronze Awards from 2017 through 2026 and selection for the Tabelog Sushi EAST 100 in 2021, 2022, and 2025. Under chef Chiharu Takaoka, the focus is squarely on Hokkaido's cold-water seafood. Dinner runs JPY 15,000–19,999, with evenings only, Tuesday through Saturday.
Sapporo, Japan
Shimoyamitenaeizuru belongs to Sapporo’s small, serious tier of French-leaning innovative dining, where Hokkaido seafood and cellar work carry more weight than spectacle. Its Tabelog Award history, including 2026 Bronze and a 2025 Tabelog 100 Innovative / Creative Cuisine selection, places it in a national conversation rather than a local novelty.
Sapporo, Japan
Sapporo sushi becomes more persuasive when read through Hokkaido’s waters rather than Tokyo’s hierarchy. Sushikin belongs to the city’s small counter tradition: compact, reservation-led, award-recognised, and built for diners who want local seafood handled with discipline rather than theatre. Its Tabelog Bronze recognition and OAD recommendation place it in the serious tier of Susukino dining.
Sapporo, Japan
Sushi Ikkou Sapporo achieves two-Michelin-starred perfection through Chef Junya Kudo's obsessive Edomae craftsmanship, where just seven cypress counter seats witness the artful transformation of Hokkaido's leading seafood into transcendent omakase experiences.
Sapporo, Japan
Shota places Sapporo sushi in the serious counter-dining tier: Edomae technique, kaiseki framing, eight counter seats, and Tabelog Bronze recognition for 2025 and 2026. The appeal is not spectacle but scale, with a compact format that makes Hokkaido seafood culture feel disciplined rather than touristic.
Sapporo, Japan
Hidetaka puts Sapporo sushi in its serious small-counter register: Hokkaido fish, Edomae technique, sake-minded pacing, and an eight-seat format that rewards diners who care about sourcing as much as ceremony. Tabelog recognition, including a 2026 Bronze Award and Sushi EAST 100 selection, places it among the city’s more closely watched sushi counters rather than its casual seafood circuit.
Sapporo, Japan
Higebozu is Sapporo's most decorated yakitori counter, holding Tabelog Bronze Awards in both 2025 and 2026 and consecutive selection to the Tabelog Yakitori EAST Top 100 since 2023. Ten seats arranged around a U-shaped grill define the format: a fixed-time course, reservation-only access for groups, and Takasaka chicken sourced exclusively through this counter in Hokkaido.
Sapporo, Japan
A four-seat basement counter in Sapporo's Chuo Ward, Sushinokura has held the Tabelog Bronze Award consecutively from 2023 through 2026 and appeared in the Tabelog Sushi EAST Top 100 in 2021, 2022, and 2025. Operating solely for dinner, reservation-only, with a Tabelog score of 4.16, it sits in the upper tier of Hokkaido's sushi scene at JPY 20,000–29,999 per head.
Sapporo, Japan
Nukumi sits in Sapporo’s small, serious tier of Japanese dining, where Hokkaido seafood is treated through kaiseki discipline rather than spectacle. The draw is not abundance for its own sake, but a controlled room, fish-led cooking, and recognition from The Tabelog Award 2026 Bronze and OAD’s 2026 Japan Recommended list.
Sapporo, Japan
Hanakoji Sawada brings kaiseki to Sapporo's Chuo Ward with a format rooted in seasonal discipline and Hokkaido's notable larder. Ranked #193 in Japan by Opinionated About Dining in 2024 and climbing to #198 in 2025, it holds a firm position within Japan's serious dining tier. Chef Tomoya Kago leads a dinner-only program running Tuesday through Sunday from 5:30 pm.
Sapporo, Japan
A nine-seat Edo-style counter in Sapporo's Maruyama district, Sushi Sohei holds a Tabelog Award 2026 Bronze and a place on the Tabelog Sushi EAST 100 list for 2025. Opened in July 2022, it operates on a reservation-only basis at JPY 30,000–39,999 per head, with a sake program curated to match Hokkaido's cold-water fish supply.
Sapporo, Japan
Sumire Sapporo susukino ten sits in the city’s central ramen circuit, where late-night eating, counter seating, and miso ramen culture overlap. Its selection for Tabelog Ramen HOKKAIDO “Tabelog 100” in 2024 and 2025 places it within Hokkaido’s closely watched ramen tier, with a practical format that suits travelers who plan around timing rather than ceremony.
Sapporo, Japan
Takuzushi occupies the sixth floor of 2GDINING Sapporo in Chuo Ward, where chef Masaya Miyashita runs an evening-only omakase counter drawing consistent recognition from Opinionated About Dining, ranked among Japan's top 350 sushi counters in 2024 and 2025.
Sapporo, Japan
マガーリ occupies a ground-floor space on Odori Nishi 14-chome in Sapporo's Chuo Ward, where the Italian restaurant category has grown steadily more serious over the past decade. The room sits within a neighbourhood that rewards those willing to explore beyond the central dining strip, and the reservation picture here is worth understanding before you go.
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Sapporo, Japan
Sapporo’s curry culture rewards specialization, and [Curry Senmon Ten] Maruyama Kyoju. sits in the affordable, curry-and-cafe tier rather than the city’s formal dining circuit. Recognition in Tabelog 100 Curry EAST 2024 and 2023 gives it a useful quality signal for travelers comparing casual Sapporo meals with more expensive reservations.
Sapporo, Japan
〇鮨 runs Hokkaido Sushi Omakase at a chefs counter with a sake program and quiet, leisurely dinner pacing; Tabelog 100 #20 in 2025 adds context.
Sapporo, Japan
Sapporo’s ramen culture is usually framed through miso, butter, corn and winter weight, which makes this station-side tantanmen counter a sharper proposition. 175°DENO Tantanmen Sapporo kitaguchi ten brings Sichuan peppercorn, sesame choice and Hokkaido wheat into a quick, low-price format recognised by Tabelog’s Ramen HOKKAIDO 100 selection in 2024 and 2025.
Sapporo, Japan
Aigues Vives is a Hokkaido bread counter in Oshoro, outside central Sapporo, with repeated selection in Tabelog’s Bread 100 listings from 2017 through 2022. The appeal is not a long dining format but a precise rural bakery culture: counter sales, a coastal setting, and bread treated as a serious regional craft rather than a side note.
Sapporo Area
Selected entries from the current guide for Sapporo Area.
Sapporo, Japan
Set in the forested onsen valley of Jozankei, about an hour south of Sapporo's city centre, Chalet Ivy Jozankei positions itself within Hokkaido's premium ryokan tier: a property where the hot-spring tradition and the surrounding wilderness do the heavy lifting, and the architecture steps back to let both register. For travellers using Sapporo as a base, it represents the cleaner alternative to an urban hotel night.
Sapporo, Japan
At 381 rooms, Sapporo Excel Hotel Tokyu sits in the mid-to-large tier of Chuo Ward's hotel stock, positioned for travellers who want central access to Sapporo's dining and transport corridors without the premium scale of a boutique property. The address in Minami 8 Jōnishi places guests within reach of Susukino and the broader city grid, making it a practical base for Hokkaido's most accessible urban entry point.
Sapporo, Japan
Cross Hotel Sapporo holds a Michelin Selected distinction in the 2025 Michelin Hotels & Stays guide, placing it in a tier of Sapporo properties recognised for consistent quality rather than spectacle. Located at Kita 2-jo Nishi 2-chome in Chuo-ku, it sits at the functional heart of the city, within reach of the Susukino entertainment district and Odori Park.
Sapporo, Japan
Selected by the Michelin Hotels guide in 2025, InterContinental Sapporo sits in Chuo-ku, placing guests within reach of the city's central grid, Susukino, and the broader Hokkaido food scene. The address does the heavy lifting here: Sapporo's defining seasonal rhythms, from snow festival crowds to summer beer gardens, unfold from the doorstep. A reliable mid-city anchor for travellers who want location before seclusion.
Sapporo, Japan
At 568 feet, JR Tower Hotel Nikko Sapporo is the tallest building in Hokkaido, positioned three minutes from JR Sapporo Station with direct rail access to New Chitose Airport. Four on-site restaurants draw on Hokkaido's celebrated produce across French, Japanese, and buffet formats. The 328-foot Pulau Bulan spa, with its natural hot spring pool, rounds out an urban address that works equally well for Sapporo Snow Festival visitors and year-round Hokkaido travellers.
Sapporo, Japan
Sosei Sapporo - MGallery occupies a converted section of Sapporo Factory, the city's landmark 19th-century brick brewery complex in Chuo-ku. A 2025 Michelin Selected hotel, it sits within Accor's design-led MGallery collection and positions itself in Sapporo's upper-mid tier of character hotels, where location and architectural narrative carry as much weight as room spec.
Sapporo, Japan
A Michelin Selected ryokan in Jozankei, Sapporo's onsen district, Suigan occupies one of Hokkaido's most architecturally considered hot spring retreats. The address places guests in a mountain river setting that defines the wider onsen town's character. For travellers choosing between urban Sapporo hotels and the surrounding thermal valley, this property represents the area's specialist tier.
Sapporo, Japan
Selected by the Michelin Guide for its 2025 Hotels & Stays list, The Knot Sapporo occupies a central Chuo-ku address in Minami 3-jo, close to Susukino's dining corridors and Odori Park's winter festivals. The property positions itself within Sapporo's growing cohort of design-conscious mid-scale hotels, offering a composed urban base for visitors drawn to Hokkaido's food scene and outdoor seasons.
Sapporo, Japan
Hotel Okura Sapporo occupies a prominent address in Chuo Ward, placing it within reach of Sapporo's commercial core and the cultural infrastructure that defines Hokkaido's capital. The property belongs to the Okura Hotels group, one of Japan's most established luxury hospitality names, bringing a design sensibility rooted in mid-century Japanese modernism to a city better known for ski resorts and seafood markets.
Sapporo, Japan
Hyatt Centric Sapporo belongs to a newer style of Sapporo hotel: urban, design-aware, and built for travellers who want the city rather than a sealed resort experience. With little public venue-specific detail available, its strongest editorial signal is positioning: a Hyatt lifestyle address in a capital known for snow, food markets, beer culture, and access to wider Hokkaido.
Sapporo Area
Selected entries from the current guide for Sapporo Area.
Sapporo, Japan
Positioned above Sapporo Station inside the JR Tower complex, JR Tower Hotel Nikko Sapporo places guests at the functional centre of Hokkaido's largest city. The hotel's upper-floor bar program draws on Hokkaido's agricultural depth, from dairy-rich spirits to local botanicals, and sits within a Japanese hotel bar tradition that rewards patience over spectacle.
Sapporo Area
Selected entries from the current guide for Sapporo Area.
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