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Three Takoyaki shops for your Snack Time !

Takoyaki made at home are sure fun, but the takoyaki made by professional in shops tastes better ! And sometimes, you just want to eat delicious takoyaki at home ! Here are the takoyaki in Asahikawa that you can bring home !

Juwari soba, the 100% buckwheat noodles restaurants in Asahikawa !

If you had to choose between 28% buckwheat noodles and 100% buckwheat noodles, what will you choose ? Our reporter will definitely choose the 100% buckwheat noodles ! This time, we will introduce two restaurants that serves delicious 100% buckwheat noodles in Asahikawa !

Asahikawa’s delicious takeout bento !

Takeout is still in high demand due to the influence of the COVID-19. Many shops in Asahikawa also sell high quality takeout. This time, we will introduce you some of these take-out bento ♪

The 3 Best Ohagi in Asahikawa

It is the equinoctial week. Thus we will introduce delicious Ohagi (based on our reporter, BB mask,’s preferences) that can be purchased in Asahikawa. By the way, our reporter prefers coarse red bean paste to smooth red bean paste.

Take it easy with some Japanese traditional sweets ♪

When you look for Japanese sweets at a cafe, you can't easily find them on the menu. But don’t worry, our reporter make thorough researches for us! Introducing a soba shop, a cafe in a residential area, and a newly opened coffee shop in a traditional street.

Where should I go for the first shrine visit? Here are our Asahikawa shrines guide !

In Japan, during the first days of January, it is a traditional custom to visit a shrine and pray for a good year. Asahikawa and its surrounding have a lot of shrines and each one have their own particularities. There is even a shrine that will help you to eliminate the fat you got during the end of year festivities!

Miso ramen lovers, this article is for you !

Ramen is, of course, delicious all year round. However, when it gets cold there is nothing better than eating a warm bowl of ramen. So this time, we will introduce our writer, Mattsuan,’s favorite ramen shop! And since she only have eyes for miso ramen, the ramens presented in this article will mainly be miso ramens!

Outstanding Japanese traditional restaurants to enjoy and relax!

You may think that those kinds of restaurants are luxuries and only used for banquets and dinners. This is partially true. But their lunches and services are top-classes too. I'm sure that you will appreciate your lunch time there.

You can’t get enough of these cheap Takoyaki !

Takoyaki are a treat that we want to enjoy all year round! Takoyaki is fun to make at home and delicious to eat at the store. At festival stalls and chain stores it usually can be bought for more than 500 yen. Our writer felt that it was kind of expensive and decided to look for cheaper takoyaki.

Delicious Japanese traditional sweets. The three long-established Japanese sweets shops of Asahi-cho !

"Asahibashi Mizuho-dori Shopping Street" that runs from Asahibashi to the Hokkaido Gokoku (a shrine dedicated to martyrs) Shrine. It was once used as an important road connecting the 7th Division to the Asahikawa Station. People used to buy sweets here as a celebration of enlistment or discharge.

4 Winter ice creams to eat under your kotatsu !

Asahikawa's winter is very cold. But the ice creams you eat in a warm, heated room are delicious, right ? Here are some ice creams that you will want to eat in winter (in our writer’s opinion) !

Let's enjoy winter snow camp near Asahikawa

Camping was a huge boom last summer! When the summer camp season was over, our reporter wondered if camping will also be popular next summer. But he underestimated the camping trend... The camping trend went down during autumn but quickly rose again during winter. Winter camp is now a thing, even in Hokkaido.

Thick hot ramen on cold days! Asahikawa’s Ankake Ramens!

On cold days, people tend to crave for ramen (some people also crave for ramen on hot days though). The ankake ramen is a thick soup ramen. It is perfect for cold days because the soup stay warm for longer. This time, we will introduce restaurants where we can eat delicious ankake ramen.

The rare fortune slips and amulets of Asahikawa’s shrines

At the beginning of the year, many people go to the shrine and wish for a good year. This year, you don't have visit the shrine within first 3 days of the year. Our writer also avoided crowds and went when there weren't many people. We will present you here some shrines that handle unique amulets and fortune slips.

Salmon & Illuminations, Asahikawa and Ishikarigawa at their best !

This is an introduction of Asahikawa and the hardworking “the salmon and his friends watching over it” society of the Ishikari River. The association's purpose is to grow healthy salmon to repopulate the waters. We will also write about the "Asahikawa light illuminations”. New illuminations appeared this year!

You just can’t go through these alleys without eating those Asahikawa’s delicious yakitori

Furariito is a popular alley for citizens and tourists. Various shops and restaurants from the Showa era are established here. This nostalgic place is also home of 4 yakitori shops, once called the yakitori alley, gourmets used to come very often. In this article we will present you 3 yakitori shops.

Eat until you're full with the soba + katsudon sets!

Since his childhood, our reporter don’t like greasy foods and only ate, once a year at most, katsudon. But lately his passion for katsudon awoke. This is why our writer will be eating around to find out which restaurant's katsudon suits his taste. But since he wanted to eat soba too, he looked for a soba katsudon set.

It tastes the best in winter! Our recommended restaurants to eat hot soba!

The soba noodles eaten at new year are called Toshikoshi soba. It says that eating hot soba on new year brings good luck and good health. Sure, you can buy soba at the supermarket and/or make soba from scratch. Soba dishes are simple yet the taste is completely different depending on the person who makes it!

Our selection of Asahikawa’s unusual ramen shops

Ramens are known for its usual soy sauce, salt, miso, tonkotsu, curry soup. However, there also are ramen with unusual flavour. In this article we will introduce you three ramen with slightly different flavours.

Do you prefer soup curry or naan curry ?

As Hokkaido is getting colder and colder, people who had lost their appetite in the summer heat have gradually returned. In this article we will introduce you curry shops as soup curry is one of Hokkaido's speciality.