Nemuro Hanamaru Daido Seimei Sapporo Building miredo — Restaurant in Sapporo

I loved the sushi at this place and I would love to go again. The quality of the food is much better than a normal chain kaitenzushi place and it was definitely worth the extra price.

I speak Japanese but when they sat us they treated us like every other foreign couple they probably have - they handed us an English menu but did not attempt to introduce the system to us at all so I was confused for the first 10 minutes or so of being there.

It ended up being okay because I watched the people around me and I also heard the staff tell a person next to me about how to order. (Basically take the dishes off the conveyor belt or write your order on the pieces of paper that are at each table and give them to the guys behind the counter.)

The food on the conveyor looked fake so we didn’t take any from the conveyor belt for a long time. (I lived through Covid in Japan so I’ve experienced conveyor belt sushi where you weren’t supposed to take the stuff on the belt and everything was on-demand.) Once we knew it was real and we figured out the ordering system, we enjoyed everything.

The staples were the best - maguro, salmon, ikura, etc. We got the crab soup but I wasn’t terribly impressed with it. The soup base was fantastic but the crab meat wasn’t great.

The natto role that my son got was really nice. I didn’t particularly like the karaage but I can’t really hold that against them since it’s not a specialty. The fried potatoes were good too but I think they were made from sweet potatoes and not regular jyaga imo. (We also got the daigakuimo and that...

Busy and affordable and very popular quality sushi place! We went at 6+ pm on a Monday and there were already 24 groups of people in front of us. We took the ticket and went elsewhere to shop (our turn came after 1 hr 10 mins). You can scan the QR code to check the queue number but do take note that if you're late for more than 15 mins when the table is ready, they will cancel your booking 🥲

How it works is that you can either take the sushi from the conveyor belt or order through the slip of paper form found on the table. So you write the item number that you would like to order, write the quantity and check a cross (X) if you don't want wasabi to be placed in your sushi. You then hand it to the sushi chef infront of you and the order is placed! (The restaurant is really busy so you have to put in some effort to grab their attention)

Different colour plates are priced differently

Blue w/ golden leaves : 400+ yen Green : 308 yen Pink : 200+ yen Blue : 100+ yen

They have an English menu and a Japanese one but I think the Japanese one has more items on it. We tried a variety of dishes but my favorite is grilled flatfish with soya sauce and premium tuna nigiri! Both melt in your mouth!

Some of the ones that I wouldn't recommend are the fried eggplant, squid with yuzu salt, minced tuna with egg yolk gunkan 😐

We ate 13 plates of sushi and the bill came up to 4000+ yen! Super...

I save a day for Sapporo every time I visit Hokkaido just so I can eat here (and the soup curry of course). Never disappoint, everything is so fresh, portion is huge, and really cheap! I would be so stuffed and it would only cost me ~4000yen

Although I do feel like the ekimae location is better, bigger store and maybe slightly better quality (fresher).

So the best way to eat at the nemuro hanamaru restaurants is actually go 40 minutes before store opens (ie 10 minutes before they start giving out numbers), line up to get a number, and if you are around the first 30 numbers, you are likely to be seated right away when it opens. (Otherwise expect to wait at least 2 hours+)

So once you get the number, scan the QR code in Line and start heading back to the restaurant when you are like 5 numbers away.

Also, don’t go 2 hours before they close, they run out of numbers way before that.

Oh also*2, get a translator or make sure you can read/understand some Japanese, the English “recommended” menu is a very, very small subset of what’s...