List of Seven Must-Visit Spots in Hakodate
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In the tanks of many restaurants in the market, there are squids freshly caught from the sea. You can easily catch a squid by a rod with a hook on one end. The hooked squid is handed over to a cook, who will use the squid to make sashimi for you.

In some restaurants, you can even watch cooking of living squids, although this might sound “cruel” for some visitors ……(^^;)
The locals call this cuisine as “dance of a squid”. Should you be interested, you can click the following link for details (with videos).

The Donburi Yokocho Market (Dongburi Yokocho Ichiba) is a restaurant arcade housed in the Hakodate Morning Market, which features some 20 seafood restaurants.

Fatty crabs, delicious salmon roes, and fresh sea urchins and scallops offered in the market look quite inviting, while the “seafood rice bowl”, a bowl of rice covered with seafood, is a dish you should try! The dish, normally with an accompaniment of miso soup, is priced between 1,000 and 1,500 yen.

If you do not feel full, you may try shio ramen. With clear broth, it is neither salty nor bland, and recommended as breakfast. Many shio ramen restaurants in Tokyo advertise their dishes as genuine Hakodate ramen, and this also shows the enormous popularity of Hakodate’s shio ramen.

There are many stalls selling fruits and seafood. Among the fruits sold there, melons and corn grown in Hokkaido are especially tasty; if you want to buy seafood, crabs are the first choice, while red king crabs (tarabagani) sell like hot cakes for their delicious and fatty meat!

Various local delicacies, such as grilled seafood, buns filled with seafood, desserts and fresh-squeezed juice, also taste wonderful, and you can make an interesting eating tour. ♪