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Sangmu Chobap Ansan Jungang-dong

상무초밥 안산중앙동점 A branch of the Sangmu sushi chain opposite the Lotte store in Ansan, selling sushi by the set with a steamed egg and cold soba thrown in.

Data as of 2026-09-27 · Published 2026-09-30 · Compiled by Gilpost

Sangmu Chobap's Ansan Jungang-dong branch sits at 10 Danggok-ro, directly opposite the new wing of the Lotte department store. It belongs to a national chain, and it sells sushi by the set — from assorted platters in the teens of thousands of won up to premium sets near thirty — and whichever you order, a chawanmushi, a small cold soba, tempura, the side dishes and a tea to finish all come with it at no charge. Between eleven and two there is a separate lunch menu. You order from a tablet at the table and settle at the counter on the way out. The kitchen is open to the room, so you can watch the sushi being pressed, and there is a waiting area inside. Open every day, eleven in the morning to ten to ten at night. The posts we read run from August 2025 to September 2026.

The basics

3 posts say it is walkable from the station.

When it opens

Of 9 posts: 6 wrote Daily 11:00–21:50, 2 wrote 11:00–21:50.

Counted from what bloggers wrote in their posts; we did not confirm it with the restaurant. Where the values differ, it may be a change over time rather than a disagreement, so we show when each one was written.

These hours are counted from the posts we read. Shops change them without notice — check Naver Place before you go. Place — check hours

What people order

The most ordered dish is memil soba (메밀소바) — 8 of 10 posts.

The prices here are what bloggers wrote down in their posts, and they may have changed since. Check Naver Place for the current menu and prices. This list is not a menu board — it counts what bloggers actually ordered and ate. Check on Naver Place

What to order

• 자부심 모둠초밥 10p3 ate it
  jabusim modum chobap₩16,900

  The most-ordered set. **The line-up is written down slightly differently each time** — three white fish, two salmon, two tuna, a prawn, a soy-marinated prawn and an eel, give or take

  **₩16,900 in a September 2025 post and again in May and July 2026** — unmoved for close to a year. Ten pieces with the buckwheat noodles, the steamed egg and a tea to finish. One regular says it has everything she usually wants and orders it by default; another, used to all-you-can-eat sushi, doubted it would fill her and found that it did

• 상무 스페셜 초밥 14p3 ate it
  Sangmu special chobap₩26,900

  The flagship of the premium sets, and **three writers list almost exactly the same fourteen** — flounder, sea bream with salted kombu, flounder fin, akami, chutoro, salmon, cuttlefish, scallop with truffle oil, steamed abalone, two prawns, salmon roe with monkfish liver, negitoro and eel

  ₩26,900 in July 2026. Writers reach for the word omakase, and one says the quality is a step up from the standard sets. **Two single out the scallop with truffle oil**, and one names the negitoro and the monkfish-liver gunkan as the best of the fourteen

• 반반 세트2 ate it
  banban set₩17,500

  **For when you want several pieces of the same thing** — two kinds, half and half, though the pairing differs: four salmon with five tuna in one post, five white fish with four salmon in another

  **Both posts give ₩17,500 for different pairings**, which reads as one price with a choice. One writer notes the clean taste, the balance of rice to fish, and that the wasabi is mild enough for people who cannot take it. A third post records an all-salmon set, eight pieces, at ₩16,000

• 스시 사시미 정식 16p2 ate it
  sushi sashimi jeongsik₩29,900

  Ten pieces of sushi plus six of sashimi — two each of white fish, salmon and tuna. **This is the one to order if you want the raw fish on the side as well**

  ₩29,900 in July 2026. One writer was told the live fish comes from the clean waters off Wando. It arrives with a small kombu-and-cucumber salad, the steamed egg and tempura. One notes the sashimi is cut generously thick

• 점심특선1 ate it
  jeomsim teukseon₩10,900 · ₩11,900 · ₩13,900

  **A lunch set, sold only between eleven and two.** There are three of them, A, B and C — and one writer notes that **they cannot be taken away.**

  A September 2025 post gives A at ₩10,900, C at ₩11,900 and B at ₩13,900. **She ate B**: ten pieces — two flounder, two salmon, two tuna, a prawn, a soy-marinated prawn, an egg and a thick roll — with soba, two pieces of tempura and the steamed egg. Good value and a fuller plate than she expected, though **the cold noodles disappointed her.** Two writers say the lunch crowd fills the room

• 진심 모둠초밥 10p1 ate it
  jinsim modum chobap₩14,900

  The cheapest of the assorted sets: two white fish, two salmon, one tuna, a prawn, a whelk, an egg, an inari pouch and a thick roll

  ₩14,900 in September 2026, and the writer makes a point that **this is the weekend price too, not a lunch-only deal.** It comes with the steamed egg, a small soba, miso soup, pickled shallot, yellow radish and aged kimchi. The thick roll, she says, is packed with radish and cucumber and takes a whole mouthful

• 특상무초밥1 ate it
  teuk-Sangmu chobap₩29,900

  One of the dearest things on the board: ten pieces of sushi with four slices of white fish, two of tuna and one of salmon alongside

  ₩29,900 in August 2025. The one writer who ordered it picks out the eel, the salmon and the sweet shrimp, **calls the eel glaze a textbook sweet-and-salty and says she will order more of it à la carte next time.** She also notes that **the cold buckwheat noodles only come if you eat in.**

Sides, and what comes with it

• 메밀소바8 ate it
  memil soba

  The small cold buckwheat noodles that come with a set — **and they change with the season**: one writer notes it becomes udon in winter

  It appears in eight posts, and five of them eat it last, to clear the palate. **Two are lukewarm** — one found the flavour a little thin in September 2025, and one in September 2026 notes it is a small portion. Two describe the broth arriving separately, for dipping. **One writer says it only comes with a meal eaten in.**

• 차완무시7 ate it
  chawanmushi

  **The Japanese steamed egg custard that comes free with a set** — it arrives before the sushi and is eaten as a starter

  Seven writers ate it and none has a complaint. One distinguishes it carefully from the Korean steamed egg — spoon into it and it gives like a pudding, with the savour of the stock through it. Another describes the cocktail prawn and ginkgo nut on top. One eats it first, she says, to blunt the sugar spike. **No price anywhere** — it is part of the set

• 묵은지5 ate it
  mugeunji

  **The aged kimchi that comes as standard, and the side dish people here talk about most.** Many lay it on top of the sushi: one calls it the trick that makes the meal, another says she has loved the flounder-and-kimchi pairing since long before it caught on

  **Three writers say they ask for more** — the standard helping is not enough, says one, so she tops it up every visit; another gets through three refills; a third says the kimchi is the first thing that comes to mind when she thinks of the place. One notes you can request it from the tablet

• 튀김 (새우·고구마)4 ate it
  twigim

  Two pieces of tempura included with the sets — **a prawn and a slice of sweet potato**, according to two writers

  Described as hot and crisp from the fryer. No price anywhere — they come with the set

• 치킨 가라아게2 ate it
  chicken karaage₩9,900

  An à la carte side: fried chicken thigh with a dipping sauce

  ₩9,900 in July 2026. Both writers like it — crisp outside, still juicy inside, and better with the sauce that comes with it. **Of the ten first-hand posts, this and a drink are the only things anybody ordered outside the sushi sets.**

To drink

• 후식 차 (수정과·매실차)6 ate it
  husik-cha

  **A tea brought out free at the end of the meal — and it is not always the same one.** Four writers were given sujeonggwa, the cinnamon-and-persimmon punch; two were given plum tea

  Cinnamon on the nose but gentle enough, says one, and a clean end to the meal. **One writer left hers** — sujeonggwa is simply not for her. Another notes there is tea in the waiting area too, iced in summer and hot in winter

• 오렌지에이드2 ate it
  orange ade₩4,300

  An à la carte drink, described as new in an August 2025 post

  ₩4,300. Sharp and sweet without the bitterness of the peel, says one; the other simply found it right for summer

Parking

9 posts say you can park. None say you cannot.

There is a yard in front of the shop, and the building's basement below it when that fills. Nine writers mention parking and none was turned away. How many fit out front is another matter — one counts six or seven; three simply say there is a private yard with the basement as backup and no need to worry; and one says that the yard is cramped and you might do better on public transport or in a public car park. Another suggests the Lotte department store next door: with their app, a two-hour ticket covers the new wing's garage.

Who came, and with whom

Getting there

Getting inside

Nor does anyone write about the floor or the stairs. The address ends '1st floor' and eight posts copy it across, but not one writer says they went up or down anything, or names a floor in their own words. Which matters more here than usual — two of the posts we threw out were about a sushi buffet on the ninth floor of a building nearby. A post that does not name a floor is no help at all in telling the two apart.

Nobody writes about the threshold or about getting in with wheels. Across ten posts the words step, ramp, kerb, wheelchair and pushchair do not appear once. What we know is that it is on the ground floor of a building on a main road, that the car park is directly in front of the door, that you come straight into a waiting area and the till, and that the room beyond is wide with space between the tables. Whether there is a step between the car park and the door, and whether a wheelchair moves through that room, we do not know. This is not 'there is no step'; it is 'not one writer mentioned it'. There are high chairs, but nobody mentions a pushchair.

Not one writer went and looked at the lavatory. One post does say 'separate men's and women's', but only as one bullet in a block — groups welcome, booking, takeaway, delivery, separate lavatories, wi-fi, high chairs, waiting area — copied wholesale off the Naver listing, and she never describes using it. Whether it is inside the restaurant or out, and whether there is an accessible one, none of the ten says.

No one mentioned: Second floor · In a basement · Lift to the floor · Ramp at the door · Step at the entrance · Step-free access · Toilet inside · Accessible toilet · Separate restrooms. That is not the same as there being none — it means we could not confirm it. Worth calling ahead, and do tell us: we will put it here.

How to read these posts

• Posts disclosing payment1 / 101 of 10 posts
• Posts saying they paid themselves1 / 101 of 10 posts
• Posts saying nothing either way8 / 108 of 10 posts

Posts that followed a TV spot

Of the 21 posts we gathered, 11 went up on a single day right after a TV spot and show no sign of a visit. They retell the broadcast, so we left them out of the counts.

We do not discard them. That a TV spot produced a burst of posts is itself something worth knowing about a place, and a star rating will not show it.

When the posts appeared

What we do not know

• Thirty posts came in and we counted ten. No other place we have read had its denominator shaken this hard. First, eight posts were about other restaurants. They arrived on the phrase 'sushi in Ansan Jungang-dong'. Once we had confirmed this shop's own listing ID, eight of them turned out to carry a different restaurant's — two about a sushi buffet on the ninth floor nearby, one about a conveyor-belt place charging ₩1,890 a plate. Our shop is not in them at all. Second, ten posts went up as a single batch over twelve days in May 2026. None of the ten says what was ordered or what it cost. What they do all carry, word for word, is the chain's corporate copy: the founding motto, the five promises, the finest-grade rice, the mission to bring sushi to everyone. The dishes they name are the same recycled list — flounder-with-aged-kimchi, seared beef, garlic butter prawn, mala salmon — and not one of them names a single set. The footer is identical, down to the same mistake: all ten give the closing time as 21:30, where eight first-hand posts say 21:50 and 21:30 is the last order. Six of the blogs are named for default Naver IDs. Add to those a further post that cites the listing page four times and summarises other people's reviews. Counting those twenty-one would have doubled every number here and got the closing time wrong as well. What follows comes from the ten people who paid and wrote down what they ate.
• About ten minutes' walk from Jungang station, say three writers — and not one of them names an exit. The reliable landmark is not the station but the department store: five posts place it directly opposite the new wing of Lotte, and one puts the store a minute away. Nobody came by bus. One writer measures it at two minutes from the Jungang station shopping street.
• One post disagrees about the hours. Eight give eleven in the morning to ten to ten at night, last order at half nine. A single May 2026 post moves both twenty minutes earlier, to half nine and ten past nine. We loaded it as written but read it as an error — the batch of copy we threw out all carries '11:00~21:30' in its footer, which looks like the last order mistaken for the closing time, and the same slip seems to have travelled. A September 2025 post and a September 2026 post both say 21:50. Not one post names a closing day — five say 'every day', but none states outright that it never closes.
• The lunch sets stop at two, and they cannot be taken away. Two writers give the eleven-to-two window, and one states it plainly: the lunch-only menu runs to two, and no, you cannot get it to go. Everything else can be packed or delivered, so it is this menu alone. One writer adds that the cold buckwheat noodles only come with a meal eaten in. Only one post, from September 2025, gives lunch prices — ₩10,900, ₩11,900 and ₩13,900 for A, C and B — so we could not confirm they still hold.
• One writer declared a sponsorship, tagging it in her opening line of a July 2026 post. One other states that she paid; the remaining eight say nothing either way. Nothing either way does not mean unsponsored; it means we do not know — and at this shop in particular, where ten posts from a single May 2026 batch are already out of the count, it is worth knowing how the remaining ten came about. Five of them say they are regulars, and six give a price.

Sources (10)

Every number above was counted from the posts below.

1. 안산 중앙동 초밥 상무초밥 안산중앙동점 진심모둠초밥 후기 2026-09-24 · 쌈자콩의 이것저것 리뷰 · via Daum
2. 상무초밥 안산 중앙동 맛집 [시스/회/참치/연어] 2026-09-19 · 좋은하루
3. 안산 맛집 상무초밥, 오마카세처럼 즐기는 안산 가볼만한곳 데이트코스 2026-07-27 · 우리는 행복하기 위해 세상에 왔지 · via Daum
4. 안산 초밥 맛집 안산 초밥 대장 신선한 스시에 대화하기 좋은 안산 중앙동 데이트 맛집 추천 2026-07-26 · hi! bang · via Daum
5. 안산 데이트 맛집 가성비가 좋았던 상무초밥 안산 중앙동점 2026-07-24 · ෆevery dayෆ
6. 안산 맛집 상무초밥 가성비 좋은 안산중앙동 초밥집 상무스페셜초밥 2026-07-22 · ♡은블리의 꼼지락♡ · via Daum
7. 안산 가성비 초밥 맛집 | 상무초밥 중앙동점 솔직후기 2026-05-12 · Sundays :)
8. 상무초밥 안산중앙동점 | 가성비 좋은 안산 중앙역 초밥집 점심특선.... 2025-09-13 · Hyezzang Day
9. [안산 중앙동] 초밥이 부드럽고 맛있는 상무초밥 안산중앙동점 - 단.... 2025-09-11 · 빙구블로그★
10. 안산초밥맛집 추천! 맛있는 초밥을 즐길 수 있는 상무초밥 안산중앙.... 2025-08-03 · ✨Mx sensibilities✨

Of 499 candidate posts we opened 49 and kept 10 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.

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