Toriton Kita 8 — Restaurant in Sapporo

Worth the long wait. Here’s what you need to know:

We arrived at opening (11am) on a Wednesday in September 2024, there was already a huge line to get a ticket/reservation. Took us about 10 minutes to get to the front of the line to grab a ticket.

You get a ticket number with QR code that opens up a Line chat. There you can click on a link to see which numbers are being called soon. The Line chat, website, everything is in Japanese though so we Google Translated everything.

After your number is called (you’ll get a Line message) you have one hour (!) to show up. So we shopped at the nearby Ario mall while we waited.

Our number was called around 2pm, so the wait ended up being around 3 hours. The sushi was great. High quality. Easy ordering with a tablet. The two types of uni / sea urchin were all sold out by this time though. So I imagine you may have to show up earlier than the 11am opening, wait 2-3 hours, just to get their uni.

Bar and booth seating with planting of room for a stroller.

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This is a very authentic sushi conveyor belt restaurant. It’s a bit outside the city, about a 20-minute walk from Sapporo Station.

All the sushi was super fresh. We ordered a lot and finished everything—it was amazing! The quality was really good, and the food came out very fast. Really loved the thick hotate! First time seeing white version of wasabi. The kick was even more powerful than the normal green ones.

We didn’t know it was so popular. When we arrived, there was a long queue. It’s better to use the LINE app to check your queue number. Instead of waiting in the cold, we walked to a sports shopping centre about 5 minutes away to stay warm. Even after going inside the restaurant, we still had to wait about 15 more minutes. We waited for 1.5hrs in total 😭. I rated it as 4 star overall cause of the waiting time. But other than that the food is good!

Ordering was very easy. There was an English menu and a tablet to order, which made...

The wait times here are absolutely insane. Took a number at 18:48 on a Thursday night for 1 pax and was seated by 20:15. Had it been 2 pax or more, the wait could've been easily more than 2 hours. After a certain time, they would stop giving out numbers and you could only take away.

I camped out at the Sapporo Drug Store across the street with a Pocari Sweat in hand, since I walked all the way from Sapporo Station ...

Food was okay. I wasn't really blown away like many of the reviewers here, but I suppose the dishes weren't bad by any means. Probably wouldn't come back again given the wait time, but I can see why this place is popular with tourists looking for value-for-money sushi.

You'll need Google Translate because a lot of the special dishes are still in Japanese even on English setting on the tablet. I appreciate the option to go with "half rice" for the more premium sushi, allows you to try a wider...