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[Pigeon House in Asahikawa] JUN DOG is Very Famous Only in Asahikawa

February 15th, 2015

CONTENTS

Pigeon House
- List of Highway Bus
- ASAHIKAWA
JUN DOG

Pigeon House

Pigeon House (ピジョン館) is a JUN DOG shop run by Mr. Jiro Watanabe (渡邉二郎) in Toko, Asahikawa city. The JUN DOG is known as a local speciality of the Asahikawa, and is a stick type rice dish with deep-fried food filling like Tenmusu (天むす * onigiri with shrimp tempura filling). At the Pigeon House, meals using the JUN DOG are served as well as selling the JUN DOG. Except the Pigeon House, the JUN DOG is sold at Asahiyama Zoo (旭山動物園), Asahikawa Medical University Hospital (旭川医科大学病院), Asahikawa Station (旭川駅) and so on.

An atmosphere of the shop is like a cafe, and stuffed fishes that I suppose cathes of owner's hobby are displayed here and there. The shop has a little strange space.

List of Highway Bus

Refer to following companies for the highway bus service between the Asahikawa and the Sapporo, the New Chitose Airport, the Kitami, the Obihiro and the Kushiro.

Chuo Bus(中央バス)	From Sapporo to Asahikawa	HP	Jalan	Rakuten
Chuo Bus(中央バス)	From Asahikawa to Sapporo	HP	Jalan	Rakuten
Chuo Bus(中央バス)	From Asahikawa to Sapporo	HP	Jalan	Rakuten
Chuo Bus(中央バス)	From Sapporo to Asahikawa	HP	Jalan	Rakuten
Asahikawa Denki Kido(旭川電気軌道)	From New Chitose Airport to Asahikawa	HP	Jalan	Rakuten
Asahikawa Denki Kido(旭川電気軌道)	From Asahikawa to New Chitose Airport	HP	Jalan	Rakuten
Hokkaido Kitami Bus(北海道北見バス)	From Asahikawa to Kitami	HP	Jalan	Rakuten
Hokkaido Kitami Bus(北海道北見バス)	From Kitami to Asahikawa	HP	Jalan	Rakuten
Takushoku Bus(拓殖バス)	From Asahikawa to Obihiro	HP	Jalan	Rakuten
Takushoku Bus(拓殖バス)	From Obihiro to Asahikawa	HP	Jalan	Rakuten
Akan Bus(阿寒バス)	From Asahikawa to Kushiro	HP	Jalan	Rakuten
Akan Bus(阿寒バス)	From Kushiro to Asahikawa	HP	Jalan	Rakuten

ASAHIKAWA

Asahikawa (旭川) that about 340,000 people live is the 2nd largest commercial city in Hokkaido, and has flourished as the center of the North Hokkaido area. Woodworks have been prosperous since the old days, and furniture is famous. Because water is clear, a liquor such as sake of Otokoyama (男山) and Godo Shusei (合同酒精) are famous, too. Popular tourist attractions such as Asahiyama Zoo (旭山動物園) and Biei (美瑛) are around the Asahikawa, so a lot of tourists use tourist bases in the North Hokkaido. As for a climate, the Asahikawa is located in Kamikawa Basin, the largest basin in the Hokkaido, so it is hot that temperature rises to 30 degrees C in a summer, and it is cold that temperature falls to -25 degrees C in a winter, and it snow very hard, too. So a winter festival using the snow is famous. Article is here

JUN DOG

It is said that all Asahikawa people know the JUN DOG, but no one do not know it except the Asahikawa people, so I think that it is a food loved by local people. Although I am from Nayoro near Asahikawa, I also had never know the JUN DOG. Because I heard about the JUN DOG from a certain woman that got to know in a study session, I visited here to eat it in the evening on a weekday. I bought a JUN DOG with sausage filling, a JUN DOG with deep-fried prawn filling, a JUN DOG with chicken cutlet filling. The price was JPY 400 per each. The owner was allow to eat those, so I decided to eat those at the shop. Thanks for a cup of coffee, too!

I heard about the JUN DOG from the owner, and he said "Mr. Eiichi Sato (佐藤栄一), the owner of Western-style Restaurant Junei (純平) in Biei, devised the JUN DOG around 1990 for the first time. The origin of an idea was that he saw a regular customer wrapping a deep-fried shrimp over with a saran wrap for bringing it back". Unfortunately, Mr. Sato had passed away since around 2000, but the owner takes over with his purpose, and sells the JUN DOG.

The JUN DOG has various types of deep-fried ingredients, and they serve a little less than 40 types of the JUN DOG such as a JUN DOG with fried oysters, a JUN DOG with fried scallop and so on. But they do not make all the types every day. They are particular about rice, and will use Koshihikari rice (コシヒカリ). The rice is just good stickiness to drawn out deliciousness of deep-fried ingredients wrapped by boiled rice. It is important to seal it up. A reason why the JUN DOG is famous in the Asahikawa is because they have sold the JUN DOG in various events. But the owner has not been well lately, and has not been able to participate in a lots of events. Look after himself.

JUN DOG and Atmosphere of Restaurant Can Be Watched on Youtube

Movie of JUN DOG

Parking lot	Parking is provided (5 Cars)
Business hours	10:00-18:00
Regular closing day	Wednesday
Telephone number	+81-166-33-0202
Home page	Home page is here
Mapcode	79 287 098*10