Nijo Market

We visited Nijo Market during our time in Sapporo and loved every bit of it. The atmosphere was lively and filled with the scent of fresh seafood. Stalls were lined with beautiful displays of crabs, scallops, sea urchins, and more—it was a feast for the senses even before tasting anything. After browsing around, we decided to sit down for lunch at one of the small stalls inside the market. We ordered fresh kaisendon and grilled seafood—everything was incredibly fresh and flavorful. The seafood bowl was overflowing with tuna, salmon roe, sweet shrimp, and uni, and it was easily one of the best meals we had during our Hokkaido trip. The staff at the stall were warm and welcoming, even helping us with recommendations. The kids also enjoyed walking around afterward, checking out other stalls and watching the seafood being cleaned and grilled on the spot. There’s a very local, down-to-earth feel about the whole place, which made the experience even more enjoyable. Nijo Market is more than just a place to buy seafood—it’s a window into Hokkaido’s food culture and a great spot for a satisfying, authentic lunch in Sapporo.

The market itself was quite small with shops selling fresh and dried seafood and restaurants. It was quite packed in the morning with a flood of tourists. We were interested to wander around but also felt that it wad quite touristic.

The fish market opens early in the morning. People have been queuing up to eat since early morning. I intended to buy strawberries, but there was only one fruit shop. The taste was delicious, but the price was quite high. I think the strawberries bought in the food zone on the lower floor of Daimaru are tastier and cheaper.

A must-see place when visiting Sapporo. Smaller than I anticipated. Every store/seafood stall seems about the same. If you like seafood ( mostly cooked king crab And fresh urchin) and sweet cantaloupe, you have come to the right place! Each restaurant has one thing or two with lower price to bring you in. Food is fresh and service is friendly.

🐟 Nijo Market – Sapporo’s Seafood Playground (Just Don’t Come Hangry) 🍣 If you’re in Sapporo and craving a deep dive into Hokkaido’s seafood scene, Nijo Market is where it all begins. It’s not the biggest market in Japan—but it punches way above its weight when it comes to fresh catches and full-on flavor. You’ve got crabs the size of small dogs, scallops so fresh they still have ocean attitude, trays of sea urchin, sashimi bowls piled high like edible art, and enough dried fish and seafood snacks to make your backpack smell very interesting for the rest of the day. There’s a charm to how local and low-key it feels—no massive tourist spectacle here, just real-deal vendors, tiny family-run stalls, and breakfast spots that serve donburi so fresh it practically swims onto your rice. That said, some stalls do cater to tourists, so prices can vary depending on how far you wander. 💡 Pro tip: Come early for the freshest options and to beat the brunch crowd. Look for the smaller shops around the edges—they often have better deals and fewer cameras. And if you’ve never had uni before, this is the place to give it a go.

Fresh Fish Market has a solid selection of seafood, and you can even grab lunch while you’re there. But honestly, it’s starting to feel like a once-great fish slowly drifting toward the deep… still fresh, but maybe not for long.

Always fun to visit a fish market and check out prices. We also always eat fresh seafood at fish markets and this was no exception. And there were a lot of eateries from which to choose.

If you’re after seafood, this is the place to go to! There are heaps of crabs and oysters and you can sit and eat at the back of some of shops. There are some restaurants as well and they got some great seafood options. I’d recommend doing a round first before you buy anything as the prices can vary a bit 🙌

I found Nijo Fish Market by accident as I was killing time while waiting to meet my spouse for lunch nearby. If I'm not mistaken, the market covers an entire block with an alley running through the middle, though many of the shops were closed in the mid afternoon on a Friday. Goods were a mix of fresh seafood, packaged snacks, ingredients, spices and handful of small eateries.

Aloha! Fresh seafood in Sapporo is aplenty, and you'll find it at any restaurant. So do you really need to come to Nijo Fish Market? Not really, so temper any high expectations. This market is right across from Odori Park. It's essentially only one side of a block with several stalls offering fresh seafood--mostly crab, scallops, and packaged sea urchin. I was hoping to see fresh sea urchin in the shell, but didn't see any at all. Grilled scallops was what all the fishmongers were trying to sell. I've had my fair share already! Nothing piqued my interest, and the amount was bare, which was probably due to going too late in the day. There are several restaurants around. The one we wanted to go to was unexpectedly closed due to "personal reasons". Sad! Overall, it's just a place to walk by and take a look, and maybe have some sweet raw or grilled hotate. There are signs that says "no photographs", but oops, didn't see it beforehand. It definitely feels touristy.

I was so hungry in the morning that I had to check around the Sapporo. Susukino is the center of dining at night, and Nijo market is the center of breakfast. Seafood bowls were so expensive. Especially, uni and ikura were so delicious but pricey. I ordered the cheapest seafood bowls around 1600 yen. It was worth paying 1600 yen. If I had ordered a uni and ikura bowl, I would have paid 3000 yen at least. If you want something local, please visit Nijo market to eat a seafood bowl!

If you want to see all the different varieties of crab that Sapporo has to offer, then you've come to the right place. There weren't many ready-to-eat food stops. We went to Ohiso for an early kaisendon breakfast. This market is much smaller than the one in Tokyo- about one block.

Nijo Fish Market / Sapporo: I was so bummed by Jamie W.'s and my subsequent experience at Tokyo's overly sterile Toyasu Market that this turned out to be the fish market experience closest to our recollection of the high energy of Tsukiji Market. It only happened because we happened to see it from the observation deck of the Sapporo TV Tower and it piqued our curiosity. Only three blocks away, it was a hubbub of activity with king crabs, sea urchin and salmon eggs in particular abundance. There were food stalls if you were lucky enough to grab a little table for two. The seafood looked and smelled hypnotically fresh. There was also local produce featured in other stalls, the sum of which constituted just a single city block. It was a nice surprise. RELATED - Traveling in Japan? Here's a collection of places I've visited and reviewed: http://bit.ly/2qrUBZo

Crab, crab, crab! And also scallops, uni (sea urchin) and clams, but let's be honest, we came for the crab! You'll find your Hokkaido crabs like red and blue king crab, horsehair crab and snow crab all available to sample and consume in as large a quantity as your wallet will allow. You won't find pushy sales but be warned that some of the stalls don't like photos being taken (it's ok, you'll find others that are open to it) You'll likely found yourself lining up for a table to eat a proper sashimi bowl, but it'll be worth your wait. Might I suggest the crab sashimi bowl?

Came to walk around, look at the fish, and eat lunch. The seafood is fresh and you can pick and choose what you want to eat as you walk from stall to stall. The market is not huge as other reviews have alluded to, but the seafood is fresh and it's worthwhile to walk around, especially while in Sapporo.

Very small (one block) fish market with crab, hairy crab, seafood, dried seafood, and a bunch of vendors with sit down areas to have a meal. You can't even compare this to Tsukiji or Kuromon but it is a nice place to kill 30 minutes. They were willing to negotiate prices so make sure to ask! One large king crab leg was about 4000 yen. We just went to look, didn't buy anything because we've been eating way too much already.

I went to Sapporo a couple weeks ago with my mom and my cousin. We ate very well on this trip, starting with a visit to the Nijo Fish Market. It was a short, pleasant walk from our hotel, through the underground walkway and the Tanukikoji Shopping Street. The market was small but bustling, packed with stalls and eateries selling all manner of Hokkaido seafood. We made several stops, eating tons of uni and ikura, oysters and scallops. We sat down at two separate restaurants (Donburi Chaya and Kondo Noboru Shoten) and slurped fresh seafood on our feet, straight from a vendor (Hashimoto Shoten). We also drank hot milk (from Kondo Noburu Shoten's shop section) and bought kanimiso and milk caramels from a nice little market (I think it was called Gourmeil but I cannot find it anywhere on the internet). It was a pretty wonderful introduction to the city. I'm not sure why the Yelp reviews are so negative. I guess Nijo attracts tourists, but that seems inevitable for a fish market in a seafood town. The prices might be high, too, but uni is precious everywhere in the world, and fruit is notoriously expensive all throughout Japan. We had an idyllic time at the Nijo Fish Market, happily eating fresh seafood and drinking hot milk in the snowy Hokkaido cold. If this sounds at all appealing to you, give the place a visit and graze to your heart's content.

Nijo fish market is a small "fish market" located at the east end of Tanukikoji Shopping Street, near Susukino. This is one of two "seafood" markets in Sapporo (other is Jogai Market) but the more convenient one to visit. Size is quite small, covering about 2 "blocks" to the public. This one "specializes" more in overall seafood, whereas the other Jogai market "specializes" more in crab. After making 1 or 2 walk-through in the market, we had decided to stop at "Ohiso" for "breakfast", one of the more "popular" (based on number of people waiting) restaurants in the market, and "Sapporo Kani Kobo" across the street for "breakfast #2" HEHE Overall, can't say this is a bad market. It's a decent size for how small Sapporo is. At least most of the vendors don't give you an earful while walking by their stall.

I lovedddd this place! They have live uni that you can have raw or bbq'ed (raw is always better), and dollar oysters! Make sure you use the ponzu sauce in the yellow bottle, it's soooo mouthwatering yummy!

There are a lot of small shops that offer a bunch of different seafood options - all still fresh and ready to be cooked. I've noticed that all prices here can be bargained and that no price is the price that they mark it as. The two biggest sellers in this fish market seem to be the melon and the crab (it's spiky and am not sure of the name). They offer to give you a try so you know what you are buying, which is really nice. The price drop that we were offered was close to 3200 yen for a crab marked at 5300 yen. Not saying that we got it for a steal, but it makes me wonder what the value of the products that are being sold here is. I highly recommend trying seafood here as it's the freshest you can get. If you aren't in love with seafood, they have so much more to offer!

Sapporo's Nijo Fish market is smaller than the Tsujiki Fish Market in Tokyo, but it's also less crowded, making it possible to take your time and enjoy the market at your own pace (tasting samples, chatting with the vendors, taking pictures, etc.). This is also an advantage when you're traveling with young children as we were. Of course, there's a multitude of fresh and dried seafood: crabs, scallops, uni (sea urchin), etc. There's also numerous other food gifts, snacks and souvenirs available. The "thing" to do, apparently, is to have breakfast there: a bowl of rice topped with salmon roe and raw uni (sea urchin). Uh, we passed on that... Instead, on a whim, we decided to try some grilled sea urchin being offered by one of the vendors (you could also have them raw). Fun experience, as you watch the fresh uni being grilled for you. Once done, you can sit and enjoy your uni on a small bench and table in front of the stall. Vendors will call out to you, offering you a "discount" on their products as you pass, but they're not rude or pushy as market vendors can be in other cities. Lots to see, smell and eat. A must visit.

Nijo Market is Sapporo's wet market. It's not that big probably about a whole block. There are restaurant also available in the inner section of the market. Lot's of seafood to choose from. In some stores, they will grill it for you and you can eat it directly there. It was unfortunate that I got there late in the afternoon already, so some of the shops were already close. Hopefully in my next visit , I would be there a bit early and see the hustle and bustle of the market.

We stopped by here on our way to Ohiso next door - not bad but definitely mainly a tourist destination. We did eat one of the seafood stalls that had very fresh oysters (which you can choosehave raw or "barbecued" aka grilled) and clams. And the fruit, while very expensive (we're talking $20-30 USD for a cantaloupe and $17 for one bunch of grapes) is delicious!

Fresh and delish seafood: I dove in all the uni and crab they offered right away Quite an experience walking through a Japanese market Go early to allow sufficient time walking through the entire block, looking, eating and buying all the vendors have to offer

We decided to check out Nijo Market and see if we could find something for lunch. The seafood stalls were interesting to look at and we found a couple of shops where we purchased something to take home. We didn't see anything we really wanted to eat for lunch so after about fifteen minutes walking around, we headed to the covered shopping street across the way. Later during our Japan trip, we went to the Hakodate Morning Market and enjoyed that one a lot more than Nijo Market.

It's really small (block or two?) and a short visit, but fun to walk around. They don't really allow photos of their seafood so be careful of scoldings. Cool to still see though. Some let you pick you crab and will prepare it for you to eat on the spot. Some also will bbq oysters or uni. Heads up the restaurants across the street have price inflation on their famous crab, donburi bowls of rice and ikura (salmon fish eggs) and uni (sean urchin), but of course it makes sense cause it a touristy spot. You can find just as yummy seafood at most restaurants, just gotta walk a little out of this area. The one we had was delicious though, can't recall the name but most sell the same thing, but again, at inflated prices. You're paying extra for being in the area.