To reach the Jogai Market, you can take the JR line to Soen Station and walk, or take the Tozai Subway Line to Nijuyonken Station and walk from there. The walk from Nijuyonken Station is shorter.

From Odori Subway Station, Nijuyonken Station is just 5 stops (about 9 minutes) on the Tozai Line. From Exit 5, it's a 7-minute walk to the entrance of the Jogai Market. Around the market, you'll see small transport vehicles called "turrets" going back and forth, delivering goods.

The Jogai Market is divided into 10 blocks, with shops lining both sides of the street. There are shops not only on the main street but also in the side alleys, so don't forget to check them out as you explore! On the right side of the entrance is Kita no Ajiwai Tei, a shop with an attached restaurant serving seafood rice bowls. Crabs are piled high in front of the store, and it's always bustling with tourists. Look up to the upper left and you'll see the eye-catching Jogai Market sign.

Next you'll find crab specialty shops and stores selling seafood such as dried Okhotsk atka mackerel and salted salmon (aramaki-zake). In the third block on the right is Fujimoto Seika, with Hokkaido melons piled up in front of the shop. You can buy boiled crab to enjoy on the spot, and if you have time, you can even buy live crab and have it cooked right away! Everything is sold at market prices, so it's very affordable!

Past the intersection, you'll find a parking lot, restrooms, coin lockers, and a row of restaurants and eateries.

Shops at the Jogai Market open around 6:00 and close around 15:00. Since it's busiest before noon, we recommend going early for a seafood rice bowl breakfast, then strolling around the market afterward!

Sapporo Jogai Market hours: approx. 6:00–15:00
*Hours vary by shop
Closed: Open daily

Kaisen Ichiba Kita no Ajiwai opened its shop outside the market in 1959, when the Sapporo Central Wholesale Market first opened. At its attached restaurant, Kaisen Shokudo Kita no Ajiwai Tei, you can enjoy seafood rice bowls made with fresh seafood.

The most popular dish is the hearty seafood rice bowl topped with botan shrimp, sea urchin, salmon roe, and more. There's a wide variety of other options too, such as the sea urchin and salmon roe bowl and the shrimp, crab, and salmon bowl (2,060 yen). Besides rice bowls, they also serve sashimi and grilled dishes. Free shuttle service is available from hotels in Sapporo's Chuo and Kita wards and from the north exit of Sapporo Station! (Reservations required. Book by phone directly, or ask your hotel's front desk to call for you.)

UME-DO is a restaurant inside Nemuro Kani Ichiba at the Jogai Market, run by a crab wholesaler. The crab and salmon roe bowl (3,900 yen) is an ultra-luxurious dish of snow crab, king crab, and hanasaki crab meat topped with king crab legs (varies by season) and heaped with salmon roe. It comes with teppo-jiru, a miso soup with crab legs, named because the legs look like gun barrels. The daily special bowl, which changes every day and features crab, salmon, sea urchin, salmon roe, and more, is also very popular!

Fujimoto Seika is a long-established produce shop founded 50 years ago, and it handles more melons than any other shop at the Jogai Market. The melons lined up outside are mainly from Yubari, and the shop also carries produce from all over Hokkaido, with orders coming in from across Japan. Pre-cut melon is sold in front of the shop, so you can enjoy sweet melon while you stroll! Hokkaido melon season is July to August. The shop also sells Hokkaido vegetables such as potatoes and corn!

*Prices include tax unless otherwise noted.