Spring Crab Battle in Abashiri
May 25, 2025 - May 25, 2025
Exquisite crabs at the dawn of drift ice fly wildly!
Click here for the Kanimaki winners
(Updated regularly!)
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1st session: 12:30 (Winners announced at 11:30)
2nd session: 13:30~ (Winners announced at 12:30)
3rd session: 14:00～ (Winners announced at 12:30)
4th session: 15:30~ (Winners announced at 14:30)
Great! If you win...
[Crab-throwing reception] In the tent
Go get the "Pledge".
Please bring the completed pledge form and gather at the "Crab Throwing Winners Reception" tent 10 minutes before the start of each crab throwing session.
| 1st time | Second time | 3rd Time | 4th time | |
| Meeting time | Until 12:20 | Until 13:20 | Until 13:50 | Until 15:20 |
| Crab rolling start time | 12:30 | 13:30 | 14:00 | 15:30 |
*This video is from 2024.
Please note that the content may be subject to change in 2025.
*This video is from 2022.
Please note that the content may be subject to change in 2025.
Held on May 25, 2025!
If you are far away, we can reserve the item for you.
Please apply using this form.
ticket
Advance ticket: 1,200 yen
On the day > 1,500 yen
Ticket contents:
Drink exchange x 2
Crab Rolling Entry Lottery Ticket
Spring Crab Lottery Ticket
Tickets can be purchased by cash only.
| Location |
| ・Tourist Information Center at Roadside Station Drift Ice Highway Abashiri |
| ・Participating stores in the "Abashiri Spring Seasonal Festival Campaign" |
| ・Shoes Kitano |
| ・Kitami City Tourism Association |
| ＜Sales locations updated regularly!＞ |
Please use the city's public transportation to get to the event venue.
For those coming by car, a shuttle bus runs from the Echo Center parking lot.
| [To] Echo Center ➡ Roadside Station Event Venue | |
| 9:40/10:00/10:30/11:00/11:30/12:00/12:30/13:00/13:3014:00 | |
| [Return] Roadside station event venue ➡ Echo Center | |
| 11:45/12:15/12:45/13:15/13:45/14:15/14:45/15:15/15:45/16:05 |
* Echo Center ⇔ Roadside Station Event Venue: Approx. 1.2 km / Approx. 15 minutes on foot
How to participate in the Crab Rolling Event
*Please note that people under the age of 16 cannot participate.
1. Purchase tickets
2. Put the Crab Rolling Entry Lottery Ticket into the ballot box located at the Crab Rolling Reception Tent
*You can vote in one ballot box per ticket.
*100 winners will be selected by lottery from one ballot box.
* Unsuccessful candidates will not be carried over.
| 1st time | Second time | 3rd Time | 4th time | |
| Voting time | 9:00～10:30 | ～11:30 | ～11:30 | ～13:30 |
| Winner Announcement | 11:30 | 12:30 | 12:30 | 14:30 |
3. Check your number displayed on this page or at the venue at each winning announcement time.
4. Great! If you win...
[Crab-throwing reception] In the tent
Go get the "Pledge".
5. Please bring the completed pledge form and gather at the "Crab Throwing Winner Reception" tent 10 minutes before the start of each crab throwing session.
| 1st time | Second time | 3rd Time | 4th time | |
| Meeting time | Until 12:20 | Until 13:20 | Until 13:50 | Until 15:20 |
| Crab rolling start time | 12:30 | 13:30 | 14:00 | 15:30 |
About the Spring Crab Lottery
Vote in the lottery box at the headquarters
Event venue map
・Drone photography is prohibited within the venue.
・Smoking is prohibited throughout the venue.
Click here for details of each store
Timetable
| 10:00 | Opening ceremony Tokyo University of Agriculture Support Group |
|---|---|
| 10:30 | cheers |
| 10:40 | Ezo YOSAKOI series “Waya” |
| 11:00 | Kitami Abashiri Police Station and Abashiri Keiyo High School PR |
| Abashiri Social Restaurant Association PR | |
| 11:40 | Rei Aloha Hula Abashiri |
| 12:30 | Crab roll① |
| 13:00 | K3 Dance Company |
| 13:30 | Crab roll② |
| 14:00 | Crab roll③ |
| 14:30 | Spring Crab Lottery |
| 15:00 | Tokyo University of Agriculture YOSAKOI Soran Club "Noh-Tenki" |
| 15:30 | Crab roll ④ |
| 16:00 | "Crabs caught after the drift ice has cleared are delicious!" |
Contact us from here
Simultaneous holding of "Spring Seasonal Festival" →
