This is something all the travel books recommend as a must. If you are ready to taste all kinds of fish and crabs in all forms, this is great. It is now already too much oriented to the tourists. The variety of crabs IS astonishing! And eat crabmeat here, in Tokio or Kyoto it costs you ten times more! More

The best thing in food about my travels in Hokkaido is the seafood. From roadside stopovers to the biggest cities, it's readily available and so fresh it's twitching (in some cases, quite literally). The Morning Market is no exception - you can even catch live squid kept in a large tank, hand it over to the chef who will cut... More

If you are looking for fresh and yet nice sushi, morning market in Hakodate, which is stone throw away from the train/bus/taxi station. The best things to check out are the shops and the 'wet market' seafood stores. You can get fresh seafood serving right to your tastebud! There are lots of snow crabs (the long legs kind) that you... More

If you're a fan of crab or salmon roe (ikura) this is the best place in the world for you. More