3 Recommended Cafés Around Odori Park Where Full Blooming Roses Await Mid-June; Don’t Miss Sweets Offered Only in Sapporo City!

As unlike other regions in Japan, Hokkaido does not have raining season in June, you can enjoy refreshing and nice weather. At Odori Park, only 10 minutes away from Sapporo Station on foot, stretching 1.5km from the city’s icon, Sapporo TV Tower, countless red roses create an elegant landscape from mid-June. In this issue, we’ll introduce three cafés you can rest your feet and have some treats you’ve got to try when in Sapporo during your walk in and around the park, all within a 7-minute walk from the park. Since you never can find the sweets mentioned in this issue outside Sapporo City, you never wanna miss them.

Not good at something sweet? Then try the parfait, well balanced with bitter and sweetness, at “FAbULOUS”, a café decorated with art, plants, and classical interiors

At “FAbULOUS”, a lounge-like café with an atmosphere making you feel like you are lost somewhere in a city outside Japan, you can enjoy wide range of menu from breakfast to lunch, afternoon tea to dinner. Among them, ‘Coffee Jelly Parfait’ (珈琲ゼリーパルフェ) is the one people talk about. In a glass jar, a bit bitter coffee jelly made from its original blended coffee, smooth white coffee pudding, rich flavored vanilla ice cream and a plenty of homemade espresso caramel are layered. This parfait with an exquisite balance of gentle sweetness and bitterness is literally recommended for those who are not good at sweets. Moreover, since each ingredient is layered, you can enjoy the change of flavor and tastes as you eat. By the way, there is also an apparel and interior shop, where you can find stylish clothes and knick-knacks, is co-located. When you’re done with fulfilling your appetite, why not doing so another desire?

Opening Hours	Café and Restaurant  8:00AM – 11:00PM / Fashion and Interior  11:00AM – 8:00PM
Address	NKC Bldg. 1F, 3-1 Minami 1-jo Higashi 2-chome, Chuo-ku, Sapporo City, Hokkaido Prefecture
Access	A 7-minute walk from Odori Park
URL	https://tabelog.com/en/hokkaido/A0101/A010102/1005818/

Never be bored at the perfect harmony of matcha ice cream, mashed bean jam, milk soft ice cream and salty roasted brown rice served in your choice of cone at Japanese tea specialty shop “Gyokusuien”

“Gyokusuien” (玉翠園), founded in 1933 as a wholesaler specializing in Japanese tea, not only helps you find the right tea suiting your sense of taste with their Japanese tea instructors but also offers you a must-try sweet ‘Yukimoe Parfait’ (雪萌えパフェ). The perfect match of matcha ice cream made with aged full bodied matcha, not overly sweetened soft ice cream made from milk produced in Tokachi (known as an agricultural area producing high quality products) and mashed red bean jam made from red beans also harvested in Tokachi is irresistible for sure. On top of the three main players of this parfait, a bit salty and crispy textured roasted brown rice is sprinkled and that also plays an important role not to make you get tired of the sweetness. Besides, you get to choose your choice of cone from standard, high-quality and deluxe.

Opening Hours	8:00AM – 6:00PM on weekdays / 8:00AM – 4:00PM on Saturday / Closed on Sunday and national holidays
Address	1, Minami 1-jo Higashi 1-chome, Chuo-ku, Sapporo City, Hokkaido Prefecture
Access	A 7-minute walk from Odori Park
URL	https://tabelog.com/en/hokkaido/A0101/A010102/1024279/

Astonishing chocolate drink made with Bean to Bar chocolate at “SATURDAYS Chocolate Factory & Café”, a café ran by Sapporo-born chocolate specialty shop

Reference from Tabelog “SATURDAYS Chocolate Factory & Café“

‘SATURDAYS CHOCOLATE’ established in 2015 is a Bean to Bar chocolate specialty store responsibly making all manufacturing processes from purchasing cacao beans to roasting, blending, molding and etc. At its annexed café “SATURDAYS Chocolate Factory & Café”, you can enjoy sweets and drinks made from its Bean to Bar chocolates. Our recommendation is ‘Chocolate Milk Classic’ (チョコレートミルククラシック), a strongly rich flavored chocolate drink with whipped cream on top. The satisfaction of a single sip makes you want to call it a dessert rather than a drink. Also, the photogenic look in the Mason jar also makes this drink in talk. When you make you sip, the rich yet refreshing sweetness of Hokkaido milk and cacao spreads in your mouth so that it melts on your tongue.

Opening Hours	10:00AM – 6:30PM / Closed on Wednesday
Address	7-1 Minami 2-jo Higashi 2-chome, Chuo-ku, Sapporo City, Hokkaido Prefecture
Access	A 5-minute walk from Odori Park
URL	https://tabelog.com/en/hokkaido/A0101/A010102/1047962/