Shopping Spots in Hokkaido Area

  • Hakodate Ekini Market
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    3.5
    285 Reviews
    Shopping
    Hokkaido Hakodateshi Wakamatsuchou 9-19
    This morning market in Hakodate has a fishing pond with squid in it. The large oval fish tank inside the market is filled with live squid swimming about vigorously. To fish, pay at the shop front and then wait your turn to use the provided fishing pole and catch yourself a squid. One of the most exciting things about the fishing tank is that once caught, the squid will retaliate by shooting out jets of sea water. As the value of squid fluctuates, so too does the price of fishing for squid here. You can have the squid you catch processed right then and there to eat as sashimi.

    The Ekini market is a part of the Hakodate Morning market, just about 50 yards from the JR Hakodate station. It is filled with vendors selling lots of seafood, vegetables, fruit, and flowers. The...

  • Rumoi Station-front Market
    Shopping
    Hokkaido Rumoishi Sakaemachi 1-1-10
    This venerable market is next to JR Rumoi Station in Rumoi City. With its antique Showa period atmosphere, this lively market offers fresh caught seafood, fried kamaboko fish cake, meats, and other delicacies from early morning. The market fish seller Nagata Fishmonger is open Sundays as well, making it a hit with tourists looking for souvenirs.
  • Royce' Futomi Factory Shop
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Hokkaido-Ishikari-gun, Tobetsu-cho BITO 640-15
    This direct-sale chocolate shop is located in Bitoe, Tobetsu Town, Ishikari County. It is a part of the Futomi factory of ROYCE', a company known for its nama chocolate, a type of ganache. The restaurant even offers a space where customers can eat the items they buy at the shop. The shop also offers soft-serve ice cream made with rich milk.
  • Original Onuma Dango Numanoya
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Hokkaido Kamedagunnanaechou Onumachou 145
    This long-established sweet shop located near JR Onuma Park Station was founded in 1905. It is the founder of the specialty of Onuma, “Onuma Dango Dumplings”, and began when the founders sold dumplings to tourists who would arrive on the train. There are three flavors: bean paste, sesame and soy sauce, and they are not on a skewer but in a folded box so they would be easy to eat even in the train. Even now the traditional taste continues, and it is a beloved representative of Onuma souvenirs.
  • Sapporo Underground shopping center
    Shopping
    Hokkaido Sapporo-shi Chuo-ku Odorinishi 2
  • Kushiro Lifelong Learning Center (Manabotto Nusamai)
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Hokkaido Kushiro-shi Nusamaicho 4-28
    "This facility complex opened in 1992 as a place for various cultural learning activities and lifelong study for citizens. A full view of Nusamai Bridge and Kushiro City can be enjoyed from ninth floor observatory restaurant ""Maizuru,"" and the 360 degree panoramic view from the tenth floor observation hall is popular with tourists."
  • Royce' Ainosato Park Shop
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Hokkaido Sapporo-shi Kita-ku Ainosato 3-9-21-50
    This shop offers popular Royce' products such as freshly-baked bread and chocolate. There is also a dine-in space where you can eat purchased items. Their soft-serve ice cream with a smooth texture is also a popular item.
  • Sapporo Odori Nishi 4 Building Ishiya Shop
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    4.0
    9 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Hokkaido Sapporo-shi Chuo-ku Odorinishi 4-6-1 Sapporo Odorinishi 4 Building 1F
    This shop on the first floor of the Sapporo Odori Nishi 4 Building facing Odori street, and is run by Ishiya. It stocks a full range of Hokkaido's iconic sweets: Shiroi Koibito cookies, Mille-Feuille Mifuyu, and the Shiroi Baum baum kuchen, as well as chocolate and baked goods. The Ishiya Shop is the only place to offer sales of individual Shiroi Koibito cookies, which are normally only sold in sets. You can choose all you need for a variety of situations, so they're great not just for souvenirs but for special presents. They can also print your picture on the spot to create your own original Shiroi Koibito Can.

    札幌の中心部、大通公園の北側の道路に面して建つビルの1階に、白い恋人で有名な石屋製菓のお店があります。 あまり大きなお店ではありませんが、白い恋人や美冬などの石屋の人気のお菓子が並んでいます。その人気のお菓子を、こちらのお店では、1つずつ購入することができるんです。美冬は、いろんな味があるので、2つずつ全種類を購入しましたよ。

  • Kitakaro Sunagawa Main Shop
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Hokkaido Sunagawashi Nishichijoukita 19-2-1
    The cake shop that sits on Route 12 in Sunagawa City, Hokkaido, is home to the Jumbo Cream Puff, made famous through word of mouth by cabin attendants and domestic pilots. In addition to selling a wide variety of sweets such as cakes, Japanese sweets, and okaki (rice crackers), there’s also a coffee lounge and a gallery inside the shop. You can enjoy the taste of homemade French cakes and omurice (omelette with rice) with Hokkaido beef in the cozy cafe style setting. It’s possible to go into the garden complete with fountain with your dog (meals not permitted).
  • Rokkatei Obihiro Main Store
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Hokkaido Obihiro city west 2 South 9 - 6
    This is the Obihiro head office of the famous Hokkaido confectioner, Rokkatei, of which the company was originally founded in Obihiro City. All kinds of Rokkatei sweets are sold here, such as the classic Hokkaido souvenir Marusei Butter Sandwich Cake and sweets made with white chocolate, etc. On the second floor is a cafe where you can get some light food and desserts. Popular dishes are the Saku Saku Pie with thick cream wrapped in pastry, and the Marusei Ice Cream Sandwich Cake. Also in the building is a well-established western-style restaurant, an art gallery and event halls.
  • Nantaru Market
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    4.0
    45 Reviews
    Shopping
    Hokkaido Otarushi Shintomichou 12-1
    The market, located five minutes away from JR Otaru Station, is vibrant and highly popular with local customers and tourists. The prototype was created in the early Showa era around 1930. Afterward, it took its current form in 1968, vibrant with nearly 30 stores in a building with a retro feel. In addition to the fishery and agricultural products unique to Hokkaido, there are many processed foods using local seasonal ingredients, fresh seafood like sashimi and dried fish, and also stores shipping locally. Besides that, the lineup has a rich variety, including food, household products and fresh flowers.

    Stop by on the way from Sapporo to Otaru. A small local market with friendly hawker. Sells fruits, vege, seafood, fried/cooked food and groceries. Surprisingly the toilet is sooo clean, thumbs up!

  • Kitaichi Glass Outlet
    Travel / Tourism
    Hokkaido Otarushi Sakaimachi 7-20
    This is a souvenir shop in Otaru. They offer discontinued products or items that might not be up to usual standards from the Kitaichi Glass company. These goods are all available at prices below regular market prices. This has become a very popular souvenir spot for tourists.
  • SaShiSuSeSo
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    4.0
    1 Reviews
    Shopping
    Hokkaido Otaru-shi Sakaimachi 7-26
    This seasonings container shop is owned and operated by Kitaichi Glass, a company which brings the culture and traditions of Otaru into the modern day. The shop's primary product is the namesake SaShiSuSeSo, a popular soy sauce dispenser which doesn't drip created by Kitaichi Glass. Made with an integrated, carefully adjusted top, these soy sauce dispensers pour well and prevent unwanted excess dripping. The shop carries a wide variety of these dispensers, from reasonably-priced models perfect for taking home as a souvenir to high-class styles suitable for giving as a present for a special occasion. The shop also carries cute small dishes, chopstick rests, salt shakers, toothpick holders, and more; and souvenir hunters are sure to have fun just looking around.

    北一硝子の液だれしない醤油さし専門店です。 お値段は800円からととてもお手頃。 オリーブオイルも使える醤油さしもあります。 道路に面した本店とお土産通りの堺町本通りにある2号店の二つ。 アウトレット店にも値段の高いものが少しお安くありますよ。 おすすめは本店。 2号店と同じものがありますが2号店の方が少し狭いのとお客が多くゆっくりと見てまわれない感じです。 本店はじっくり見れてよかったです。 一...

  • Souvenir shop Kobushiya Otaru Branch
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    3.0
    1 Reviews
    Travel / Tourism
    Hokkaido Otarushi Sakaimachi 5-29
    A Hokkaido souvenir shop located on Sakaimachidori Shopping Street in the center of Otaru. As well as Otaru, the shop has branches open in Sapporo and Hakodate too. All the branches have a wide selection of sweets and local sake from across Hokkaido, so it’s a great place to do all the souvenir shopping. All the classic confections like Shiroi Koibito, Rokkatei, Royce’, Jaga Pokkuru, and Hanabatake Bokujo are on sale. The shop has English and Chinese speaking staff making it easy for tourists to do their shopping. The stone exterior of the shop fits in nicely to the retro look of Otaru’s streets.

    商店街のほぼ中央にある石造りの倉庫が目印の土産店です。広い店内には、石屋製菓、六花亭、ロイズ、じゃがポックル、花畑牧場と人気商品が幅広くあり、北海道の土産が勢揃いしています。5000円以上購入すると送料が四国、九州、沖縄が800円、その他が600円となることです。まとめ買いをするなら、お勧めです。

  • Tanbaya
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    3.0
    1 Reviews
    Travel / Tourism
    Hokkaido Kushiro-shi Nishikicho 2-4 Kushiro Fisherman 's Wharf MOO 1F

    MOOの中にある土産物店の一つでした。どの店舗も似たような売れ筋商品が並んでおり、同じ商品ならどこで購入しても同じようでした。因みに同店の陳列棚にはこぼれ落ちそうな程の商品が並んでおり目移りしたものの、バラマキ用に適した菓子類も沢山並んでいました。

  • Akkeshi Fishery Cooperative Association Direct Sales Store A-Uroko
    Shopping
    Hokkaido Akkeshi-gun Akkeshicho Minatomachi 5-3
    This direct sales shop adjacent to a fishing port carries a full selection of fresh seafood. Visitors can purchase eat a number of marine products for which Hokkaido is well-known including oysters, which are a specialty of Akkeshi, as well as pacific saury, Hanasaki crab, and more. It is even possible to eat what you buy right there on the premises Customers can have their oysters served raw or boiled, have their seafood prepared as sashimi, or have their crab boiled for them. The fresh seafood is sure to make you smack your lips.
  • Hokusho Suisan Direct Sales Store
    Shopping
    Hokkaido Tokoro-gun Saromacho Naniwa 52
    This seafood direct sales store is located in the Saroma-cho area of Tokoro County, Hokkaido Prefecture. The store offers seasonal seafood and prepared delicacies from the Sea of Okhotsk and Lake Saroma. In the store's food corner, you can find the popular and indulgent scallop burger made with scallops caught in the Sea of Okhotsk. You can eat freshly made food at the dine-in space. They also offer takeaway, so it is perfect when driving.
  • Hasegawa Store Bay Area Shop
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    4.0
    254 Reviews
    Shopping
    Hokkaido Hakodate-shi Suehirocho 23-5
    "This store is famous for its ""yakitori bento"" box lunches. ""Yakitori"" means ""grilled pork"" in Donan (Southern Hokkaido) rather than the usual grilled chicken. Customers can choose from five different flavors including soy-based glaze, salt flavor, and miso-based glaze. The bento boxes are both tasty and generously portioned. We strongly recommend giving it a try if you are in Donan."

    We stopped here to grab some yakitori lunch. Unlike Lawson, 7-11 and Family Mart, almost everything is in Japanese. Luckily, there were English instructions for ordering the yakitori, although the...

  • Darumaya
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    3.0
    9 Reviews
    Shopping
    Hokkaido Asahikawa-shi 2 Jodori 13- Hidari 2-go
    A long-standing taiyaki pastry shop located at the 2-Jodori 13-Chome intersection. Ever since their opening in 1951 they've continued to make taiyaki with the same unchanging flavor. The shop's specialty, well known to the locals, is their Banana-yaki. It's a banana shaped pastry stuffed with a salty white bean paste with just the perfect amount of salt to enhance the sweetness. The texture of the sweet starts to change after just five minutes so they don't prebake them and hand them over freshly made. If a bit of time has passed, they can be brought back to their crispy state with a little warming in an oven-toaster or frypan.

    雑誌に紹介されていたので、通りすがりで訪問。バナナ焼きの文字で利用したが、期待は大いに外れ。 たい焼きの形がバナナになっていて、中の餡が白あんというだけの大したことないもの。 格段に美味しいわけでもない。予約なしだという他の客の扱いがかなりひどかったのだけが記憶に。

  • Confectionary Etude Asahi-machi Branch
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    4.0
    4 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Hokkaido Asahikawa-shi Asahimachi 1-jo 9-689-23
    The confectioner which sells the Ohirune Pudding, a sweet that took first place in popularity contests at both Tokyo Dessert Republic and Purin Dendo 2006 held in Kobe. Their pudding is carefully made using ingredients from Hokkaido and ingredients are brought in from all over Hokkaido for testing. Their creamy smooth pudding is the pride of the shop and really expresses the flavor of their eggs. In addition to this location you can also find their products at their Toko branch in Toko 1-Jo 5-Chome as well as their online shop. Other popular menu items are their Asahikawa Souffle which melts in the mouth and their Angel's Smile creamy cheese tart.

    旭川駅から車で15分くらい、北海道教育大学旭川校の近くですね。こじんまりしたお店ですが、こちらが本店なんですね。 エチュードと言えば、お昼ねプリンが有名ですが、今回はケーキを頂きました。レアチーズケーキを頂きましたが、濃厚なクリームチーズにベリーのソースがマッチしてかなりの美味しさでした。次回は他のケーキも試してみたいです。

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Not just a prefecture but an island of its own, Hokkaido is the most northerly prefecture and island of the Japanese archipelago. Arriving in Hokkaido, which is rural and bursting with breathtaking nature, means entering a world where vast national parks, towering mountains, and natural hot springs can be found at every turn. Come December, these natural splendors freeze over and morph into a winter wonderland.

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