Kani Honke Sapporo Station Main Branch

One of the famous and popular seafood (King crab and snow crab) specialty restaurant. Reservation highly recommended.. We ordered set menu @ little over ten thousand Japanese yen per person. Every dish placed in front of us can be called a piece or art. And taste also match how it looked! They also have a great list for Japanese sales to choose from. It is great compliment to such nice meal. Only thing I wish they can improve as the English speaking for the waitresses. The communication was English speaking. Customer is quite difficult with the waitresses. But I can tell they tried very hard to and eventually understood each other.

From the moment we walked in, the service was exceptional. The staff were attentive, friendly, and made sure every detail was taken care of, creating a welcoming atmosphere. The food was absolutely delicious and fresh. Overall, the experience was fantastic, and I highly recommend this place for both great service and outstanding food

1. Good value for money. 2. Within walking distance of Sapporo JR station. 3. Ordered 1 set menu + 2 stuffed crab shells (crab au gratin).

Crab was fresh but not many options in terms of cooking style. The baked king crab steak was the best. Price is reasonably affordable.

We decided to grab lunch first before heading to the airport, figured we haven’t really had crab during this trip yet so we searched Google’s recommendations and found this restaurant, with all its great reviews. It was maybe a little after 1pm, we were not sure if it was crowded and thought we should’ve booked beforehand, but tried walking in there anyway. Fortunately, it wasn’t that crowded so we were seated almost immediately. By the entrance at the ground floor, a man handed us a number and told us to take our shoes off and get on the elevator. At the second floor, we were then greeted by the ladies in kimono. We love the atmosphere, you get your own room. It didn’t take long for them to serve the food, except for the rice in a pot. Food were all great, it def hit the spot. Been craving for crab for a while now.

Walked in at 5pm on a Saturday. Ordered two big sets and a medium King Crab. They were FRESH. The crabs were delicious. The crab porridge is a MUST. We wished we had more dishes but the food coma started kicking in. Will definitely return!!

Allowed to order only one set for 2 person. Service is superb. However we think that the food for snow crab could be more. Wouldn’t queue for this.

I came here at 8:20pm without a reservation, expecting to be turned away. Surprisingly, they seated us after 5 minutes. It was pretty empty when we went in (presumably everyone else had finished up). We ordered the sukiyaki set meal and no one said anything about there being too much food or a time limit. But near the end of the meal, first someone said to let them know when we were done with the hotpot because they had to use it to do porridge. We were almost done by then so we said sure. Then 5-10 min later, someone else came by to say the same thing, which we said okay again. 5 min after that, they came by to just clean out the pot for us and started doing the porridge. By the time they finished making it, it was around 10pm. We then were quickly served our fruit dessert. During this time, it was clear we were the only customers left as the staff were cleaning around us etc, as they closed at 10pm. At 10:05, the man at the front desk came to us and tapped his watch impatiently and said they closed at 10. We only had 5 min by then to eat the porridge so we felt really upset that we were quickly being rushed out. If the restaurant was firmly to close at 10pm, they should've either not seated us or told us our set meal was too big/we had to leave by 10 sharp. Neither of those things happened, so it came as a huge surprise for the service to take a bad turn at the end of the meal. I'm also not sure if it was because we were tourists and their English wasn't great, but I think this is a big tourist spot and they should've been better at this. Sadly, we quickly left after the rude rushing out which left the biggest sour note on the experience. The food itself throughout was actually excellent and the pricing felt decent to us too with lots of food. Everything tasted full of crab, and I really enjoyed the fried crab, the crab sashimi, and the hotpot.