1. Preface- Characteristics of the Restaurant

  1. It is a restaurant specializing in Hokkaido sea urchin cuisine directly managed by a processing company.
  2. Serving fresh raw sea urchin year-round (the catch area differs depending on the fishing season).
  3. Serving additive-free raw sea urchin without using preservatives.
  4. You can eat a numerous sea urchin dishes drawing the taste of the sea urchin.

2. Murakami Sea Urchin Dishes

Rice bowl with 2 toppings
Rice bowl with 2 toppings

It is popular bowl where you can taste raw urchin without preservatives and Hokkaido's salmon roe.

Rice bowl with 3 toppings
Rice bowl with 3 toppings

You can savor three types of seafood, top quality sea urchin with high-grade salmon roe and fresh scallops.

Omakase Kaisen-don (seafood bowl)
Omakase Kaisen-don (seafood bowl)

A sumptuous seafood bowl with a total of eight different types of fresh seafood, not to mention fresh sea urchin.


Crab rice porridge
Crab rice porridge

Piping hot rice porridge with flavor filled crab.

Additive free raw sea urchin sashimi
Additive free raw sea urchin sashimi

Experience the preservative-free scarce fresh sea urchin.

Sea urchin gratin
Sea urchin gratin

Sea urchin gratin:A popular dish. The sea urchin shell is used as a dish, Hokkaido produced potatoes are covered in a white sauce made form king crab, topped with our boasted sea urchin and baked.

Sea urchin with boiled rice in tea
Sea urchin with boiled rice in tea

Sea urchin with boiled rice in tea:By covering in piping hot dashi broth, the raw sea urchin becomes half cooked, the rich sweetness will melt in your mouth allowing you to enjoy the raw sea urchin even more.

Rolled egg with sea urchin
Rolled egg with sea urchin

A luxury Japanese omelet generously using sea urchin specialist boasted fresh sea urchin. Sea urchin tsukudani (food boiled in soy sauce) is mixed inside and finished with green laver bean paste.

Additive-free roasted sea urchin in a wooden box90g
Additive-free roasted sea urchin in a wooden box90g

Experience the preservative-free scarce fresh sea urchin.

3. The Secret to Our Great Taste

 Because sea urchins begin to fall apart after being removed from their shells, a preservative called alum is used to maintain their shape.
Alum prevents shape collapse, but loses the original melting texture and leaves the particular astringent taste on the tongue.

 The sea urchins of this restaurant are additive-free, not using alum but instead preserved using an original processing method conceived through longtime research.
Therefore, you can have the original sea urchin flavor.


  • Original processing technique not using alum.
  • Served with exquisite timing for freshness and taste.

4. Sea Urchin Trivia

Sea urchins are nutritious, sweet and they melt in your mouth. There are over 800 kinds of sea urchins in the world.
Out of 180 kinds in Japan, 7 kinds are targeted to catch.

※Our raw sea urchins ( northern sea urchin and short-spined sea urchin)

Sea urchins inhabit areas where kombu seaweed inhabits, drawing taking nourishment from the kombu.
The area surrounding Hokkaido is a production center for kombu. Rishiri kombu, Rausu kombu, and Hidaka kombu are famous.

Ezo bafun uni, red sea urchin, and kita murasaki uni, white sea urchin, are used in Hokkaido sea urchin cuisine.

This restaurant mainly uses white sea urchin.
During the winter from October to around April Russian produced red sea urchins from the south Kuril Islands are sometimes used.
From mid June to the end of August, Rishiri, Rebun produced red sea urchins are also offered on a limited menu.

left : short-spined sea urchin, right : northern sea urchin

5. Restaurant Infoemation & Access

Uni Murakami
 Sapporo Branch Restaurant

Nissay Sapporo bldg. B1F, Kita 3-jo Nishi 4-chome, Chuo-ku, Sapporo-shi, Hokkaido
TEL:+81-11-290-1000
Lunch   | 11:30a.m.-2:30p.m.(L.O. 1:30p.m.)
Evening| 5:30p.m.-9:30p.m.(L.O.8:45p.m.)
Course meals have different last order times.
Closed: New year's eve and new year's day(December 31-January 4), other holidays not determined
We do not accept reservations via email or Inquiry page.
Please call the restaurant directly for reservations. +81-11-290-1000
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  • about 37 minutes from New Chitose Airport Station to Sapporo Station (rapid-service train) .
  • 5 minutes walk from Sapporo Station.
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