After your third bowl of ramen at CTS Domestic, switch gears.
Yukidaruma sits in the Domestic terminal food zone and leans hard into grilled meat and heavier plates instead of noodles and sweets. It runs through typical daytime meal hours, roughly 11:00 to around 21:00, and sits in the low price tier for the airport, but expect higher yen-per-gram than downtown Sapporo yakiniku joints. Figure around ¥1,000–¥1,600 for a lunch set and more if you start adding extra beef plates.
The draw here is table-top grilling: yakiniku-style meats, hot plates, and rice bowls that scratch the “something meatier than ramen” itch, as one TikTok food crawl put it. Hokkaido airport round-ups flag Yukidaruma specifically for heavier grilled dishes rather than curry or noodle sets, so plan on walking out full. Rating hovers around 3.5, which tracks: decent airport yakiniku vibe, not a destination in itself.
Regular CTS flyers use it as a pressure valve when the ramen dojo queues blow past 30–40 minutes. Yukidaruma usually has noticeably shorter lines at those same peak lunch and early dinner windows, so you can sit, grill, eat, and still make a 60–90 minute pre-flight buffer. Groups often order one of the larger mixed meat platters to share, then pad it out with extra rice (around ¥200 a bowl) to keep the total bill in check.
Watch out for two things people call out online: meat quality that feels closer to mid-tier family yakiniku while prices sit at airport-plus levels, and smoke. Table grills can leave your clothes smelling like beef for the rest of your travel day, which matters if you still have a multi-hour domestic hop from CTS. One practical move: stash your jacket in your carry-on and sit toward the edge of the room, then head straight for the nearby restrooms to wash up before boarding.