This hidden gem is my favorite sushi spot! I've ate here too many times to remember all of the different types of sushi I've tried, but they were all fantastic. I would recommend Sapporo to anyone who is looking for good fresh sushi. read more

Good food. Good Music. Good People. I recommend to any sushi lovers in the area looking for a good meal for a cheap price. read more

Outstanding chirashi bowl! Had it both times I've been there. Good service and nice atmosphere. Staff all wore masks.

I've been to Sapporo twice. It's pretty good for sushi in Nashville but make sure you go to the bigger one because apparently they use fresher fish than the smaller one (as told by our waitress). Next time I'll go to the nicer restaurant. Apparently it's a little pricier but probably worth it! read more

The menu offers something for everyone, even children. The sushi is always perfect. I've never had to wait more than 10 minutes for a seat. The restaurant has been nice and clean every time. You get your money's worth and leave feeling satisfied and planning your next visit. read more

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Very yummy, great selection of rolls and very reasonable price! Picked up to go, service was great and very prompt. I also asked them to add slides jalapenos and lemon on the side, and they did! =) Will definitely order again. read more

Sapporo - Cucumber salad roll, enasis roll. - Japanese Near Me - Madison, Tennessee

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I loved my soft tofu stew. Savory, spicy, balanced for my taste, wouldn't mind a bit spicier. I will try udon the next time I come back.

It's solid. Some of the rolls are weird. The menu has all sorts of misspellings but that's ok. It's hard to find a decent sushi restaurant around here. Other option is Hana in Hendersonville. read more

Great place and worth the drive if you live northeast of Nashville. Very authentic Korean and Japanese! The shrimp tempura udon with kanikarage a hot green tea spider roll and water are my favorites when I am running errands and don't want to travel far for an amazing meal. I am never disappointed. Fely is the perfect hostess and always Smiles as well as the sushi guys behind the sushi bar. read more

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Such great sushi with a great staff. Reasonable prices, too! We suggest sitting at the sushi bar and getting to know the chefs! The sushi is fresh, and very well done. I recommend the yum yum roll read more

This is a pleasant place which obviously started life as a Japanese restaurant. It is themed well, but it seems to have become a little faded over time. We went here for lunch and discovered it is now a Korean/Japanese fusion restaurant...that is, if fusion means Japanese food cooked by a Korean chef. We wanted the Crazy Ramen. So called because it was listed with 10 chillis alongside it on the menu. I asked if it was Japanese hot, or Korean hot. I was informed that it was Japanese hot; which every Japanese food lover in the land knows means mild by international standards. So, we ordered the 10. It was Korean hot, and that means velly bruddy hot indeed! No real problem. But a closer inspection showed this meal was made on udon noodles rather than ramen. I asked the waiter about this and was told "Ah yes, it's listed under ramen, but we serve it with udon". The udon menu and the ramen menu are adjacent, so...odd. We had ordered the ramen noodle because my girl doesn't like heavy wheat noodles, as in udon. So, we requested the change. It appeared that the dish, once back in the kitchen, was separated; the udon from the chicken and veggies, before the ramen noodles were mixed in. Consequently the presentation suffered and left us feeling a little second-hand. Ordinarily, most restaurants would prepare the dish again from scratch. The restaurant is quite comfortable and the food was not expensive. It is middle-of-the-road Asian for Nashville. There are many better...but equally there are many worse. read more

Typically I don't advise ordering sushi in Tennessee. Just like I wouldn't order oysters in TN. Oysters don't grow here, tuna doesn't swim here, and I don't see catfish sushi on the menu. However every once and a while I just need a sushi fix, and Sapporo is the real deal. I have ordered sashimi as well, and always found it fresh and tasty. We have even ordered some of their other Japanese food items on the menu, all the way from Gyoza to Bento boxes and have been pleased everytime. Best of all, these folks really seem to like doing business. Always greeted with a smile and a hello, and always a good bye and wave at the end. Very chipper. When my husband was deployed and I would get sushi to go they would ask about him, too. Nice to see this level of kindness. read more

So happy to find an authentic Japanese restaurant in Nashville! The sushi was fresh and delicious and the broth in my nekayaki tasted like it had been cooking all day with whatever bones and stuff that usually get thrown away adding lots of amazing flavor. Friendly service, great price, and a down home traditional Japanese decor make this a great spot for a nice meal. read more

Hands down best lunch around river gate area!!! service is awesome and so is the food!!!!

My favorite place in town for sushi! I come here frequently for the lunch specials! The sushi chefs and waitress know me by name (as they do many of their customers). They even provide their "regulars" with their very own chopsticks and boxes that are kept in the restaurant behind the sushi bar. They also hook up their favorite guests with crab/cucumber salad. Very tasty! What to try: The lunch special! It is 2 rolls plus soup and salad for $6.99. Can't beat that price! I can never finish all the sushi since the rolls are so large! My favorite roll is the tempura battered crab and cream cheese roll. Awesome! Pros: Great customer service, fresh rolls every time, wide selection, offers specials for holidays (Christmas, Valentine's Day, etc.) Cons: Location is in Madison...about 20-30 minutes from downtown Nashville. I wish they'd open up a location out in Hermitage/Donelson and also Downtown... maybe one day if keep bugging them! read more

Nice place to go for cheap sushi. Very friendly staff and great customer service. The waitress really knew the regulars and knew what they always ordered which is a good thing! I was a little disturbed though, the waitress called my date out by saying, "Are any of the other women you come here with on the way here?". Talk about she kept egging it on. Hummmm?? I only found the sushi to be ok but all had a pretty presentation. Lots of variety to choose from I must say. Maybe my feelings about the food will change when I go back by myself. :) read more

I frequent this place often for sushi. They have an awesome selection of sushi, all of which tastes great. They have some strange rolls I've never seen offered elsewhere. It has a great rustic atmosphere. Very small and cottage-like. Employees are all so happy and greet me each time with a smile when I enter. 90% of the time Sapporo is terrific, but sometimes the sushi falls apart easily, and sometimes the servers disappear and it's hard to pay the check! Parking is fairly easy, as it's not very busy in the small lot. read more

I only tend to write reviews after I've been to a place a lot of times, and considering I've topped 20 some odd check ins, and those are just the times I remember to check in. I can say, after eating at most of the so called best sushi bars in town, Sapporo is, by far the best, and I recommend it very highly. First, the service is amazing. Not just the wait staff but the chefs, they are all kind and courteous. The chefs work fast, but the food is consistently great and fresh. Now, the food. They have great miso soup and the agadashi tofu is so yummy! But let's get to the rolls. They are not tiny little smidgins of rice with little to nothing inside like some sushi bars in this same area *cough* Arigato *cough*, but nice perfectly sized rolls of the freshest sushi not only in the north Nashville area, but I dare say in all of Nashville. Great location, good parking, I wish they were open on Sunday's, but they need their rest to make all the best sushi. Keep up the good work, guys! We all love you here. Please say you'll stay forever? Seriously,though, this place is worth anything you have to go through to get here! read more

I used 3 stars because it wasn't the best or the worst. Lunch special is reasonable and tasted fine. However ginger was turning brown so I only ate a few pieces. read more

The atmosphere is very nice and the staff is ever so friendly. I definitely love coming here with my husband whenever we are in the area. We decided to come here recently after a long week of work (and me celebrating my new recent job)...he decided to try out gyudon for the first time, and I managed to sneak a bite from him. The meat was so tasty! I also liked the seasonings as well. I decided to have 2 of my favorite sushi rolls, along with trying out their Gyoza roll. It was brought out very quickly (along with my husband's gyudon), and everything was delicious! Can't wait to come back here again! read more

Came back to see if it would be any better so I could raise my rating, but it was worse this time. Very slow service and had to wait over 20 minutes for our check. I'm a patient person, but it was excessively slow. Really stinks because I wanted to love this place. read more

Great sushi and even better staff. This is my go to Sushi spot. My favorites are the 911, DGR, and the Silvera. read more

My wife and I just tried this tonight. And we were thrilled by how good the quality of the food was here. She had the California Roll while I had Crunchy Crab. We both got Bento Boxes and the combination of that that and two full rolls filled us both up. We had a lil food in the boxes left over so unless you're famished, dont do what we did. Thats the only negative thing I have to say. Everything was excellent. For the record, my wife has had more exposer to sushi than I have, but she was none the less thrilled. All in all, fair pricing because of fresh ingredients, very friendly chefs, and good service. 9.5/10 from me, 10/10 from my wife. read more

I adore this place. I've been coming at least once a month for 10 years. They have so much food to choose from that you can bring people who don't like sushi. Their fish is always fresh and the chefs are quick and creative. The atmosphere is great for a friendly get together or date nights. Somewhere between casual and upscale. Prices are the best I've seen for the quality. read more

I was STARVING when I arrived at Sapporo for dinner. Amazingly, my multi-roll meal was ordered, prepared, and served to me within two minutes. No joke... Sapporo offers some pretty unbeatable deals, such as three different half to full size rolls for $9.99. That is TRULY unbeatable. However, it really was thrown together in merely seconds! I was sitting at the sushi bar and I can't tell you how it was done, but it was by the two sushi chefs - assembly line sushi? Maybe the "deal" plates' sushi pieces are pre-assembled and get thrown onto a plate. So the 3rd star in my review is for the speed and hospitality of the staff. As for the sushi - it wasn't the best quality raw salmon I've ever had, and it wasn't the prettiest sushi. (Hell, it was made in under a minute!) The tastes were so-so. read more

They have sooo many unique sushi rolls, but also check out their other entrees! There aren't many places you can get ramen in Nashville. Disappointed that their okonomiyaki is so expensive ($15). They have great sushi specials, we both always get the spicy sushi combo. Comes with soup and a salad and 3 good-sized rolls. On top of it all, the restaurant is decorated like an old Japanese restaurant (like a real restaurant in Japan would look). The dining chairs are big, old, wooden monoliths. The interior doesn't look new, it's kind of old and used looking, but I like that because I really reminds me of Japan. read more

This is my favorite Japanese restaurant in Hendersonville. I come here very often. The restaurant offers foods from different countries. I typically get katsu don which is fried pork on rice with caramelized onion. I recently traveled to Tokyo and their katsu don is just as good. They have a good lunch menu that is affordable especially for the amount of food that you get. It does get busy during dinner and depending on the time you come, the food comes out pretty slow. But, the taste of the food will not disappoint you. If you're unfamiliar with Asian cuisine, their menu has pictures so you'll know what to expect. Their foods range from sushi to udon and ramen to bibimbap. It's a Japanese and Korean fusion so you'll be sure to have the opportunity to try both at the same time. read more

Finally got out to not only a new restaurant to try, but a new sushi restaurant! First, I will start off by saying that price wise, this restaurant is comparable to many other sushi restaurants in town. But wow, is it FRESH! I got a chirashi bowl and it was so good. The fish was all fresh and tasty and the variety of fish was insane! There was even octopus in the mix, yum! My fiancee got a couple of rolls and she really enjoyed them, but back to the chirashi. There was shrimp, crab, egg, tuna and salmon like in most typical chirashi bowls I have had elsewhere. But Sapporo goes beyond that and adds ocotpus, escolar (white tuna), roe, and I want to say red snapper (I think that is what it was) as well. So much variety in one big bowl. And oh so good. But here is the best part, it only costs about $18.00 and includes soup and salad. How can you get any better than that? Seriously? I can go to many other sushi restaurants in town and get a chirashi bowl for the same price, with soup and salad, but more often than not, it will not include all those nice extra cuts of fish and seafood. Now add some squid and scallop to this bowl and it would be heaven! I definitely plan on going back here some time soon. So good, and while not as inexpensive as say, Sonobana, you get a lot for your money here. read more

Meh. Made the mistake of trying the Ramen. Maybe I am spoiled, but it was so bland and dead I chose not to take more than five bites. Rubbery over cooked meat, old cold hard boiled egg, flavorless noodles, a bit of spinach and little else. No other veggies or garlic. Very lame. Sushi was so-so. I used to like this place. Maybe I have progressed or maybe it has digressed. Either way I can say with certainty that I won't go back. read more

I live in Southern California where they have the best Asian restaurants in the country. On a month long business trip out here I was definitely craving my native food, and this place was a most pleasant surprise. The service was phenomenal, and their food delicious. With such a wide variety of options, from Japanese to Korean, you shouldn't normally expect a lot, but they do it well. Better than any other place in this region. All their noodle dishes are good, and the sushi is not bad considering real good sushi you are not going to find in Nashville nor is it going to be this cheap. So it is edible if you are craving it. The korean meat dishes are also tasty. One trick is the consistency--something different staff are cooking at night, and in probably the half dozen times we went here there were a couple dishes that weren't as good as we had before. read more

Perfectly made sushi! Large quantities very fairly priced for the quantity of food and quality! I love this place my favorite place to eat in Hendersonville and 100% recommended!!!!!!!! read more

Best sushi around! Try the Yum Yum roll, Omg it's sooooo good. The Fusion roll is good as well, it's like an egg roll made with rice paper. Really good! read more

Sapporo - Here's some of the menu - Japanese Near Me - Madison, Tennessee

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Sushi is so good! One of my favorites in Nashville! And waiters are always so nice and very attentive!

Came here last night not knowing what to expect, but I was definitely NOT disappointed! I ordered my usual favorites of Philly rolls and crunchy crab and shrimp rolls, and tried some fried crab rolls - delicious!! And best part: I got to end it with some mochi ice cream!!! I've never had any before and was very eager to try. They also have ramune for sale. They're all flavors you can find at World Market - nothing special - but I like the option to get it there! read more

Sapporo - Mochi ice cream!! - Japanese Near Me - Madison, Tennessee

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Best sushi I've found in the Nashville area so far.

Definitely a place I would come back too. Service was good and fast. Had the gyoza, seaweed salad, and volcano roll...all was pretty good. read more

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Good sushi. Lots of unique rolls including rolls that have chicken and pork for those who don't like seafood. My picky sister and niece both enjoyed their meals as well. read more

Sapporo - Sushi pizza roll and Nashville roll - Japanese Near Me - Madison, Tennessee

Excellent selection of very well made sushi. A bit pricey but typical for that quality of sushi. Three rolls and one Sapporo cost me $46. Excellent choice especially if you have something to celebrate or feel like you're going to die if you don't get your next sushi fix. Very fun and lively atmosphere. They also do Korean BBQ and so the place smells delightful. We go often on Sunday's. The key is you have to google Fairvue Sapporo not just Sapporo which is what the name of the sign says so that's confusing. Initially when we googled Sapporo it says they are closed Sundays but they are really open so do yourself a huge favor and go. I highly recommend the Rainbow roll and the Hana Roll. The cherry blossom is an excellent choice for Tuna lovers like me. Sunday is a great day to go especially if you don't want to wait. I can't wait to go back again sometime soon. read more

Great Japanese and Korean cuisine! Definitely not your run of the mill Japanese restaurant. They have an extensive menu and it's fully labeled with nice pictures to make choosing much easier. My wife had yakitori and I had ramen. We also had sushi, which was phenomenal, and shrimp tempura . read more

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The staff and owner here are wonderful. The food is amazing. They have great lunch and dinner specials that include three rolls, soup, and salad. The fish is always fresh and they will do anything to make their customers happy. Heads and heels above other sushi I've had when I'm in Nashville, including the trendy spots down town and in Brentwood. Consistently amazing and fresh! Another amazing meal tonight. read more