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Food & RestaurantsYouTube
Is Nijo Market a Ripoff? Sapporo Locals Say "Not One Yen in 29 Years"
The most-liked local comment (156 likes) under a Japanese market-crawl video is a 29-year Sapporo resident saying they've walked past Nijo Market countless times and never spent a single yen there — and residents of 25 and 33 years line up to say the same. Across 834 comments the consensus is blunt: the seafood bowls are tourist pricing ("3,000–4,000 yen!?" drew a 111-like double-take), pushed up by inbound demand, while locals buy their sashimi at the supermarket or eat conveyor-belt sushi. There are honest nuances — a neighbor still buys shellfish there for less than the supermarket — and the comments name exactly which chains Sapporo actually trusts for seafood instead.
834 comments7/22/26, 10:44 PM
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Hotels & OnsenYouTube
Hidden Onsen in Hokkaido: Locals Fact-Check a "Secret Top 10" — and Name 40 More
Show Hokkaido locals a "top-10 secret onsen" countdown and they out-obscure it: across 185 comments, locals named more than 40 hot springs of their own — while the most-liked replies (22–25 likes) fact-check the list itself, insisting picks like Karurusu and Shiobetsu Tsurutsuru have been famous locally for 40 years. The genuinely obscure winner survives scrutiny: Shukubai, a wood-fired bathhouse near New Chitose Airport that first-timers say feels "like borrowing a stranger's bath." Locals also flag two celebrated hidden springs as closed with no reopening in sight — and a couple of them quietly name where they soak instead of inbound-packed Noboribetsu.
185 comments7/17/26, 12:45 PM
GuideHotels & Onsen
Onsen, According to Japanese Onsen People: Where They Soak, How They Book, and What They Skip
Most onsen guides are written by visitors who went once. This one is aggregated from the people who go monthly: Japanese comment sections where regulars name the baths they actually use, correct the listicles, flag what's closed, and hand over their booking tricks — every number below is a real like-count from a translated Japanese comment.
7/17/26, 12:30 PM

Hokkaido

Is Nijo Market a Ripoff? Sapporo Locals Say "Not One Yen in 29 Years"

Hidden Onsen in Hokkaido: Locals Fact-Check a "Secret Top 10" — and Name 40 More

Onsen, According to Japanese Onsen People: Where They Soak, How They Book, and What They Skip