Echizen Kaninobou — Restaurant in Sakai

We stopped at the restaurant around 5:45pm and I went in to check if it was opened for business as the town was quiet. A gentleman greeted me and advised that it’s not crab season yet so they served other sashimi dishes. He also suggested other cooked items for kids. We decided to try and was pleasantly surprised by the good quality of the sashimi and soba. Our dinning room window overlooks the seashore and the train station. We’ll definitely come back again and try...

Restaurant operating hours: 11:00am to 2:30pm. Price of Echizen (yellow tag) 越前蟹snow crabs is much higher than Toyama (green tag) and Kanazawa (blue tag) snow crabs. Size of 1-kg Echizen snow crab costs about ¥60,000.

Winter snow crabs season starts from Nov 6 to Mar. ‘Zuwai-Gani’ 加能蟹 high grade Male crab. Female crab is called 'Kobako' 香箱蟹. Eat with...

Whenever you are during crab season, you should come to have a meal set.

The fresh taste is only in crab. If you want to have a higher taste level, the vinegar will bring you to paradise.

Really good crab meal, even it’s a little pricey.

If you are deserved it, then treat yourself...