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Tsukiji Market

World's Largest Seafood Feast

Tokyo's Tsukiji Market, claimed to be the best in Japan, is home to fresh seafood ingredients and is visited by countless wholesalers every day. The Tsukiji Market is open to tourists, too, and has a variety of well-known sushi restaurants and vendors to satisfy the needs of foodies.

Tokyo’s Tsukiji Market, which is said to be the largest fish market in Japan, is the home of World's Top Seafood Ingredients and is visited by many wholesalers every day.

Until the 17th century, the location of the Tsukiji market was just an ocean, and later the reclaimed land was called “Tsukiji 築地” (Reclaimed Land). In 1923, the largest fish market in Tokyo, Nihonbashi, was destroyed by the Great Kanto Earthquake, and in 1935, it was moved to Tsukiji, where it gradually became Today's Size.

The Tsukiji market is divided into two areas, the inner market and the outer market, and the Tsukiji inner market is mainly for wholesalers in the Tokyo restaurant industry. Every day at 4 or 5 am, people begins their busy work at Tsukiji Inner Market. The tuna auction is one of the highlights of the Tsukiji market, where it is said that one out of every five tuna caught in the world is sent here for auction.

Manywhere Tips:
An era came to an end on October 6, 2018, when the Tsukiji Market’s Inner market officially ended its 83 years of operation and the merchants relocated en masse to a new market in Toyosu.

Processing Tunas

The inner market has a food and beverage area, which was initially just for the convenience of the staff. As these shops selected the freshest ingredients, their reputation grew, and more and more customers came to visit them. Sushi Dai and Yamato Sushi are two of them, and sometimes you have to wait in line for 3-4 hours to eat sushi in those shops.

Manywhere Trivia:
90% of tourists (especially those traveling with a group) mistakenly think they’ve been to the Tsukiji Market, but actually, they only eat something at the outer market before leaving in a hurry.

The Tsukiji Inner Market is closed on a regular or temporary basis every week, resulting in a large number of tourists feeling upset. To solve this problem, the outer market was established. The Tsukiji Outer Market was built right next to the inner Market, this is a market for tourists. The shops here are even more diverse, offering not only seafood and marine products, but also snacks, kitchenware, fruits and vegetables.