Just a few minutes walk from Tanukikoji Arcade in Sapporo, the Sapporo Nijo Market is an interesting place to visit. You will find the freshest fish, scallops, sea urchins, shrimp, squid, octopus and king, queen, and hairy crab. The taraba gani(king crab)of the highest quality can be found here from 5,000 yen to 7,000 yen, or more depending on size and quality. I personally purchased a very high quality large king crab, with all legs intact, hard shell and just caught for 7,000 yen. My purchase of king crab and other seafood items was made at the Maruichi Market from Mikami-san, but the vendors are very friendly, and if you buy enough you can bargain with them for a better price. Dried seafood is plentiful, and we just enjoyed the dried and smoked scallops, smoked octopus legs, dried squid, and some of the soy sauce prepared sea kelp.
We even had an early morning seafood breakfast at one of the restaurants in the fish market. At the Donburi Chaya restaurant I had the Kaisen assorted seafood bowl. 9 toppings including maguro(tuna)sashimi, salmon sashimi, ikura(salmon roe), hotate(scallop)sashimi, king crab meat, botan ebi(peony)shrimp, uni(sea urchin), egg roll, and yama imo(diced mountain yam) on a bed of delicious rice along with hot Japanese tea for 1,449 yen. You can try a steaming bowl of miso soup with crab inside as flavoring for an additional 200 yen. Awesome breakfast!
You can easily see why the Sapporo Nijo Market is a Travel Japan-US favorite.
Location: Just at the end of Tanukikoji Arcade on 2nd St. Fish vendors open at 7:00AM and close around 6:00PM. Restaurants open a little later.
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