How do you get to Maruyama from Odori in Sapporo?

Take the Tōzai subway line west from Odori Station to Maruyama-kōen, about 10 minutes. Nishi 18-chōme, one stop earlier, is closer to the area's eastern blocks: Kikuchi Coffee's main shop on Kita 1-jō Nishi 20-chōme is a five- to six-minute walk from it. Miyakoshiya Coffee's head store is about five minutes from Maruyama-kōen Station.

Which cafés in Maruyama, Sapporo open early?

Akaneya, at Kita 3-jō Nishi 20-chōme, opens at 07:00 every day and closes at 17:00. Kikuchi Coffee, a family roaster founded in 1986, opens at 07:00 Monday to Saturday and closes at 19:00. Tokumitsu Coffee on Odori Nishi 25-chōme opens at 10:00 daily, as does Morihico at weekends.

What is Morihico in Maruyama, Sapporo?

Morihico is a café at Minami 2-jō Nishi 26-chōme that opened in June 1996 in an old wooden house on a narrow Maruyama alley. It roasts its own coffee dark, and a line often forms before opening. Its house blend, Mori no shizuku, sold only at this shop, cost ¥913 in 2024.

Cafés in Maruyama, Sapporo: Hours and Map

Maruyama is the western end of central Sapporo, about 10 minutes from Odori on the Tōzai subway line, where the grid meets the green of Hokkaido Jingū and Maruyama Park.¹ The shrine was built on its present site in 1871 as Sapporo Shrine,² and the park began early in the Meiji era as a tree-testing ground of the Hokkaido Development Commission before it was landscaped as a park around the turn of the Taishō era.¹

This was farmland once. Its shopping street, Ura-sandō (裏参道, the back approach to the shrine), began as the Maruyama morning market, and in the residential blocks behind it and its condominium towers, old houses and buildings have been turned into cafés, sweet shops and small boutiques.¹ Addresses here run from about Nishi 20- to Nishi 28-chōme, counted west from the Sōsei River.³

Local tip: Arrive at Morihico a little before it opens, at 11:00 on weekdays, since a line often forms;⁶ if it is long, Kikuchi Coffee on Kita 1-jō Nishi 20-chōme has been open since 07:00 on every day but Sunday.

At a glance

92Cafés listed

15With opening hours

07:00Earliest opening

00:00Latest closing

Opens earliest: 珈琲の店あかねや, from 07:00 (Daily 07:00–17:00).

Closes latest: 円山茶寮, until 00:00 (Mon–Wed 11:00–00:00 · Fri–Sun 11:00–00:00).

Most common features: smoke-free indoors (3%), open late (2%), vegetarian options (2%).

Getting to Maruyama

Two Tōzai Line stations serve the area. Maruyama-kōen is the one for the shrine and park,¹ and Miyakoshiya Coffee's head store at Minami 2-jō Nishi 28-chōme is about five minutes on foot from it.⁴ Nishi 18-chōme, one stop east, is closer to the eastern blocks: Kikuchi Coffee's main shop is a five- to six-minute walk from there and has eight parking spaces.⁵

Shrine, park and the seasons

Hokkaido Jingū's grounds hold about 1,400 cherry trees and some 250 plum trees, which bloom at almost the same time in spring; the ginkgo and maples turn in autumn.¹ Maruyama Park, next to the shrine, also contains Maruyama Zoo,² and Ezo squirrels (エゾリス, Hokkaido's red squirrel) live in its old-growth woods.¹

Snow is the long season. Sapporo averages 4.79 m of it a year,² which turns the short walk from Maruyama-kōen Station to a side-street café into a slow one.

Deep roasts and family roasters

Morihico (森彦), at Minami 2-jō Nishi 26-chōme 2-18, opened in June 1996 in an old wooden house down a narrow alley; its founder, Ichikawa Sōsuke, renovated it with his father and siblings. It roasts its own beans dark, and a line often forms before it opens.⁶ Its house blend, Mori no shizuku (森の雫), sold only at this shop, cost ¥913 in 2024.⁴ It opens 11:00–21:30 on weekdays and from 10:00 at weekends.

Kikuchi Coffee (菊地珈琲), at Kita 1-jō Nishi 20-chōme 3-33, dates from 1986, when Kikuchi Yoshimi left a large coffee wholesaler at 45 to open a family shop; his son Hiroki now does all the roasting.⁷ Since opening it has double-roasted its beans, roasting, cooling and roasting them again for a milder cup.⁷⁵ A blend cost ¥360 after a June 2022 price rise.⁵

Early and late in Maruyama

Maruyama starts early. 珈琲の店あかねや (Akaneya) at Kita 3-jō Nishi 20-chōme opens at 07:00 daily and closes at 17:00, and Kikuchi Coffee opens at 07:00 Monday to Saturday and closes at 19:00. 徳光珈琲 (Tokumitsu Coffee) on Odori Nishi 25-chōme keeps 10:00–20:00 every day, and パパヒデヒコ (Papa Hidehiko) at Kita 7-jō Nishi 20-chōme, with outdoor seats, opens 11:00–20:00 and closes on Mondays.

Evenings run later than in most of the city. 円山茶寮 (Maruyama Saryō) at Kita 4-jō Nishi 27-chōme stays open until 00:00 and closes on Thursdays, and CAFE びいだま, on the same block as Morihico, serves 11:00–23:00 daily. For vegan food, 青いそら流れる雲 is on Minami 1-jō Nishi 22-chōme and 円山 Holistic Bio Cafe Veggy Way opens Thursday to Sunday, 11:30–18:00.

Cafés in Maruyama

At a glance

CAFE びいだま

cake&cafe collet

MaShu

ジェットセット

ツキネコカフェ

パパヒデヒコ

円山茶寮

徳光珈琲

森彦

珈琲の店あかねや

菊地珈琲

青いそら 流れる雲

Aivalley MIYANOMORI

bit better

Boys be.

BUZZ CAFE for Kids & Mums

C2cafe

Cafe & Bake Prunier

Cafe & deli Interplay

Cafe de Zaza

CAFE early

Cafe Esquisse

Cafe Liner Notes

Café Rain

cafe 侘と寂

cafe&bar POLSKA（ポルスカ）

Cafukuya

Chata

Coffee Salad House Dorimu

Daisy's

FIRST BITE

L'Air du Temps

Mame Kitchen Maruyama

Maruyama Lodge

Nature Cafe EARTH

Ordinary

Coffee chains in Maruyama

Starbucks

Miyakoshiya Coffee

Sapporo Coffee-kan

Miyanomori Coffee

Getting to Maruyama

Shrine, park and the seasons

Deep roasts and family roasters

Early and late in Maruyama

Sources

More of Sapporo

Odori & Tanukikoji

Sōsei East & Nijō Market

Odori West

Maruyama cafés: questions

How do you get to Maruyama from Odori in Sapporo?

Which cafés in Maruyama, Sapporo open early?

What is Morihico in Maruyama, Sapporo?

Own a café in Maruyama?

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