Halal Gourmet Japan lists 40 restaurants and shops in Hokkaido (as of October 2026). About half of them are in Sapporo. The rest are spread across the island, in places such as Otaru, Asahikawa, Obihiro and the Tokachi area, as well as resorts like Niseko and Rusutsu.
Hokkaido is large, so it helps to look for places to eat by where you are going. This guide is organized by destination: Sapporo, New Chitose Airport and Otaru, Asahikawa, Obihiro and Tokachi, and other towns and resorts. The descriptions are based on what each restaurant says on its listing page.
Ramen and Japanese food in Sapporo
Halal Ramen YUKIMIYAKO – Wagyu & Sushi Sapporo in Susukino serves ramen and Japanese dishes. Along with its Wagyu ramen in a chicken paitan broth, it offers Wagyu shabu-shabu and sushi. In Minami 3-jo Higashi 1-chome, HALAL WAGYU RAMEN SHINJUKU-TEI Sapporo Hokkaido serves halal-certified Wagyu ramen and has a prayer space inside.
In the basement of the Hokuren Building at Kita 4-jo Nishi 1-chome, Ramen Sapporo ichiryuan makes ramen with Hokkaido ingredients and its own noodles. It is certified by Hokkaido as a “Kita no Megumi Aishoku Restaurant.” Fukunoki, in Minami 4-jo Nishi 10-chome, is a noodle shop focused on vegetables and chicken, and its shrimp dishes are the most popular. The owner says they do not eat pork or drink alcohol themselves. Houryu has its main ramen shop in Minami 6-jo Nishi 3-chome.
For seafood rice bowls (kaisendon), Donburichaya Nijo Market is in Nijo Market, a long-established market in Sapporo. It recommends its daily seafood bowl made with whatever is in season, and its grilled hokke (Atka mackerel) and soups are also popular.
Indian, Turkish and Thai food in Sapporo
Sapporo also has restaurants serving food from around the world.
India Curry Shop Mirch, in Minami 5-jo Nishi 20-chome, is an Indian curry restaurant that opened in 1982. The food is cooked by an Indian chef who is Muslim, and the restaurant is proud of its curry, made with organic onions and no added water. It says it has recently created a dedicated menu for Muslim guests.
Other Indian restaurants include JYOTI The Door to India in Minami 3-jo Nishi 4-chome, CHANDAMA in Kita 3-jo Nishi 7-chome, DAWAT CAFE in Kita 17-jo, and Taj Mahal Sapporo Factory in Kita 2-jo Higashi 4-chome. JYOTI and CHANDAMA say they do not handle beef or pork. DAWAT CAFE has a Muslim owner.
For Turkish food, there are THE KEBAP in Kita 12-jo and KEBAP STATION in Hiragishi, Toyohira Ward. Both have Turkish chefs, and from 5 p.m. THE KEBAP grills doner kebab in front of its guests. Gapaou, in Kita 8-jo Nishi 6-chome, is a Thai restaurant that makes its food by hand without relying on artificial seasonings.
JICA Hokkaido (Sapporo) in Shiroishi Ward lists both halal meals and vegetarian meals on its listing page. ONKATSU café & salon Naturalist in Kiyota Ward is a reservation-only café with a prayer space.
New Chitose Airport and Otaru
Donburichaya from Nijo Market also has a branch on the 3rd floor of the domestic terminal at New Chitose Airport, Donburichaya New Chitse Airport. You can have a Hokkaido seafood bowl right after you land or before your flight home.
Donburichaya Otaru Sakaimachidori is close to the Otaru Canal and uses seafood delivered from Otaru Port. Its grilled hokke and seared seafood bowls are popular, and it has a prayer space.
Asahikawa
In Asahikawa, you can find ramen, jingisukan (grilled mutton and lamb), soba and a Wagyu rice bowl.
Ganso Asahikawa Ramen “Ichikura” offers Muslim guests its “Okhotsk shoyu” ramen, with a broth made from salmon, herring and Rishiri kelp. It says it uses rice oil instead of lard. At TAISETUJIBEER, the jingisukan is made with never-frozen, halal-certified meat.
Soba Yukiya, near Asahikawa Station, serves soba made from Hokkaido buckwheat, both hot and cold, and you can have it with tempura. Kagetsukaikan Ryotei Kabuto features a Kuroge Wagyu beef bowl made with 200 g of Miyazaki herb-fed beef.
Obihiro and Tokachi
Obihiro and the surrounding Tokachi area have everything from crab and hot pot to cheese and sweets.
Kani Daisho (reservation required) in Obihiro is a family-run crab restaurant serving dishes made with hairy crab, snow crab and king crab. It accepts same-day reservations, and groups of 10 or more need to book at least three days ahead. Genki Beya is a chanko-nabe restaurant whose hot pots are full of seafood, mountain produce and vegetables. pizza kachibar is a pizza restaurant that uses Tokachi ingredients, and its Muslim-friendly menu also includes pasta and desserts.
At Matsuhisa-en in Memuro, you can eat rainbow trout raised in Tokachi’s water in an old main house that also has a prayer space. Tokachino Fromages in Nakasatsunai is a factory shop selling cheese and ice cream, and it also has a prayer space.
For tea and sweets, there are TOKACHI-BAGEL CAFE POUR TOUS in Obihiro (with a prayer space), Ochanofuji, which offers green tea soft-serve ice cream, and Tokachi Seika Japanese Confectionery outlet, which sells Japanese sweets including halal-certified products. JICA Restaurant “OBICOOK” in Obihiro has dishes made with halal chicken, but it says these use seasonings that contain alcohol.
Other towns and resorts
Rusutu resort Sekkatei offers a “halal set meal” and “halal beef shabu-shabu,” and it has a prayer space. Sahoro Resort Hotel, at the Sahoro resort in Tokachi, provides Muslim-friendly meals if you book at least one week ahead. It also asks guests to ask about prayer space in advance.
Local Ryori-tei SEKIHARA in Tomakomai is a Japanese restaurant that cooks with Hokkaido ingredients. It can prepare meals for religious dietary needs, but asks that you call to book in advance.
Other ways to search
You can see all the listings in the prefecture on the Hokkaido restaurant list. If you only want places where you can pray inside, the list of restaurants with a prayer space is useful. There is also a mosque in Sapporo. To find mosques and prayer rooms, see our guide to finding a mosque or prayer room in Japan.
To learn where pork and alcohol tend to hide in ramen, see our guide to ramen broths and sauces.
Before you go
Information on our listings may change at the restaurant’s discretion. Please check menus and arrangements on the linked pages and with the restaurant on site.
Each listing page describes the restaurant’s halal arrangements (certification, ingredients, kitchen, and so on). Please read the listing and decide whether it meets your own standards.
To wrap up
Ramen and curry in Sapporo, seafood bowls at Nijo Market and in Otaru, jingisukan in Asahikawa, and cheese and crab in Tokachi: what you can eat changes from town to town in Hokkaido. Once you know where you are going, open the listing pages for places nearby and check their halal arrangements.
Image credits
- Featured image (Odori Park and Sapporo TV Tower): ノボホショコロトソ / CC BY 4.0 / Wikimedia Commons
This article was written by the Halal Gourmet Japan team. On Halal Gourmet Japan, you can search for halal-friendly restaurants and prayer spaces all over Japan. The service is also available as an app (iOS / Android).
After seeing his Muslim friends struggle to dine out in Japan, he founded Halal Gourmet Japan, a restaurant search service for Muslims, and has been running it for more than a decade since its launch in 2014. He also co-founded Food Diversity Inc. (formerly Halal Media Japan; he has since stepped down), and has deep expertise in halal support for restaurants and Muslim-oriented inbound tourism. Halal Gourmet Japan is one of Japan’s largest halal-friendly restaurant search services, used in more than 140 countries, introducing halal-friendly restaurants and prayer spaces across Japan in multiple languages.
