Takinami Donburi Restaurant — Donburi of Otaru North
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Delicious fresh seafood at Takinami Donburi Restaurant in the Otaru Fish Market. We arrived around 10:15 and there was a king queue already, so I recommend going as early as possible. Luckily the line moved quickly and we were seated within 30 mins. We ordered the Donburi Bowl with 4 types sashimi (2970 yen) including uni (additional 330 yen), crab, scallop, and salmon roe (bowl totaled 3300 yen with the uni). The Donburi also comes with a miso soup and what seemed like fish jerky. Lastly we ordered 2 grilled scallops to top it off. The seafood was extremely fresh and tasty. My wife’s favorite part of the bowl was the crab and the uni and my favorite was the crab. It was a very fair price for the fresh seafood but wish it came with a little bit more food for each topping. Just a warning, there is no English menu so be prepared to use the pictures or google translate. Overall worth trying when coming to Otaru!
Cameron Keyser
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I came here on a weekday at 950am and the line was already wrapped ( line of people sitting on chairs plus the line of people standing). I waited about 40 minutes. It makes sense if you try to come at 12, the wait will be way longer. When you are in line, they ask for your order. When I got seated, food still took time to come out. Food is tasty but not worth the wait. There are so many seafood donburi places. I had the 7700 yen uni bowl. I have experienced my fair share of uni. Uni was creamy and on par with what I expected. Tuna was fatty and melted in mouth. Sweet shrimp was ok but again not the best I ever had. It wasn't fishy but could use more flavor. Maybe it is the season. I chose to have an expensive meal but they have a lot of affordable meals there.
Lily
20
Somewhat disappointed. We came at 730am on a Sunday and there were already a long queue (note: google maps says they open at 8am but that seems not the case). We waited for 30 mins to get in (make sure you register by writing down your name and party size when you join the queue, that part of instruction didn’t seem clear) We got the mix uni and salmon roe rice and the 4 sashimi choices rice, and a small scallop sashimi appetizer. The mix uni (Mafuin and purple) and roe rice was somewhat of a disappointment. The freshness was there but quantity was really quite small for the price we paid (7700 yen). By the way, we were also confused why we were the same amount as a full mafuin uni plus roe rice. That was a bit tricky as the pricing was based on “market price” and h clear. The 4 flavor sashimi rice is a more economical choice and slightly better worth for money, though quantity was also a bit on the smaller side for around 3000 yen. We left a bit disappointed and feel a bit bad for those others who came at 8ish (thinking google maps is accurate) and may be waiting for over 1-2 hours for this sort of experience. They only accept cash
AC HK
00
PLEASE DO NOT COME HERE. IT IS NOT FOREIGNER FRIENDLY AT ALL. There is no sign that states that you have to write your name when you are standing infront of the store as seen in the photo. Even though there is a queue, you need to write your name with the counter then join the queue. It is a joke then when you are already standing for 30 minutes and they start taking orders, they will only write your name at the bottom of the list and you will only be seated based on the position of your name on the list. So even though you have already stayed in line for 30 mins, you are now essentially right at the back of the physical queue. And the store does not do anything about it. They just expect that you know that you have to write your name when you arrive before joining the queue. It’s a joke. There are many other stores that sell donburi that has no queue and serves equally fresh seafood.
wheuni tan
10
This is by far the best seafood sashimi I’ve eaten in japan. We ordered kaisendon with a 10 different seafood, hakkaku sashimi fish and grilled gindara. All the food that I ordered its very delicious and fresh. Kaisendon, all the seafood in this dish are delicious but the most amazing are uni, salmon and scallop. It is better to eat 1 bowl for yourself than to share because you will find it not enough. Hakkaku sashimi, the meat is a bit chewy with unique taste. You can try it. Grilled Gindara, the meat literally melt in you mouths. You will not get any grilled gindara fish anywhere. This particular restaurant is the most crowded than other restaurant, waiting time is 1+ hour during lunch. And they don’t served chutoro or otoro but they served tuna sashimi
Dixs
00
This was the most hyped restaurant in the fish market but I’m not sure how much better it really is compared to the others. The waiting experience was pretty terrible. You put your name down to wait in a line to make your order, after which they give you a time to come back to be seated. We were waited about 20 minutes to make our order and were told to come back in 45 minutes to be seated. But when we got back it was another 30-40 minutes of waiting. There was about another 15 minutes of waiting for food after seating. The bowls were delicious but smaller than expected and not worth the wait. I’ve had better kaisendon else where for less. If you do want to wait out the line, I do highly recommend the special purple uni.
Lisa Huang
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3 Chome-10-16 Inaho, Otaru, Hokkaido 047-0032, Japan
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+81 134-23-1426
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otaru-takinami.com
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Compact, busy haunt serving rice bowls topped with seafood delicacies from raw fish to sea urchin.
attractions: Otaru Canal, ドーミーイン小樽, Otaru Canal Boat LLC, Authent Hotel Otaru, Hotel Torifito Otaru Canal, OTARU TAISHOU GLASS MUSEUM, The Bank of Japan Otaru Museum, Former Japanese National Railways, Temiya line, Otaru Station, 小樽運河, restaurants: Kamaei Factory Outlet, Naruto Main Shop, Otaru Beer Otaru Warehouse No.1, Waraku Kaiten Sushi, Otaru Masazushi Main (Hokkaido), Yabuhan Soba, Ajidokoro Takeda（kaisen), Conveyor belt sushi restaurant Toppi - Otaru Canal Street branch, Chinese Restaurant Keien, yakiniku Otaru Gyukaku -Beef BBQ -Otaru Branch
