Yoichiya Sea Urchin Specialty Restaurant-Hakodate asaichi — Restaurant in Hakodate

If you’re visiting Hakodate, Uni Specialty Restaurant Yoichiya is an absolute must! Everything here is fresh, beautifully presented, and bursting with flavor.

Their menu is amazing — from the Tokachi Beef Toro Flakes Bowl, Uni Beef Toro Bowl, Fatty Salmon and Salmon Roe Bowl, Uni and Fatty Salmon Bowl, Uni and Salmon Roe Bowl, Uni and Grilled Eel Rice Box, Uni and Bluefin Tuna Five-Variety Bowl, Uni and Snow Crab Bowl, and even the luxurious Three Great Crab Comparison Bowl. You can also enjoy specialties like the Hamanaka Bafun Uni Bowl and the Live Squid Comparison Bowl.

They also offer wonderful toppings such as uni, king crab, snow crab, tuna, eel, seaweed, botan shrimp, sweet shrimp, salmon roe, and scallops — everything you could dream of from Hokkaido’s sea!

The staff are all incredibly kind and welcoming, and the restaurant itself is spotlessly clean with a bright, comfortable atmosphere.

Every visit here is a truly unforgettable experience — a perfect taste of Hokkaido’s finest seafood and warm...

Just an amazing meal 👏 Went on a Thursday around 11am, was let in straight away. Staff can speak English well enough, and they have an english menu available online so you know exactly what you're getting. I got the sea urchin and 5 kinds of tuna bowl. The sea urchin was sweet and slightly creamy and the tuna was amazing! The 4 different cuts were perfect, and the tuna belly was so soft and melted in the mouth. I added an extra scallop for 700 yen, and it was humongous and sweet. Definitely recommend for those who want to try sea urchin. The price was I think average, I've seen other stores that have cheaper, but some more expensive so I'm not sure what the average is. But as a tourist its definitely worth it!! I only wished I was able to try the 5 kinds of sea urchin bowl, but unfortunately in October its out of season. They do free rice and crab soup...

Left disappointed after paying ¥8000 for their 3-crab comparison don, with a top up to the premium hamanaka bafun uni. I specifically wanted to come here because hamanaka uni had a reputation for delivering a good quality during the off-season.

However, the uni provided was unlike the hamanaka uni I’ve seen before. The colour was a dark orange, unlike the lighter yellow-orange I expected of this product (it’s available via speciality importers back home). The taste too was simply briny, without the accompanying sweetness.

Additionally, while the portion of crab was very generous, the taste wasn’t very good. The crabs had been boiled far in advance (to speed up service), hence coming cold and tough. The zuwai gani had an odd texture, with the meat shrunken off the sides of the shell.

Left feeling disappointed overall, especially...