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Toyosu Fish Market Tour – Private Access with a Sushi Chef

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DURATION

~05 hours

GROUP SIZE

Up to 6

FROM

JPY 94,000 for 2 guests

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Toyosu Fish Market Private Experience – Floor Access & Seafood Lunch

Highlights

What you’ll see & do

Rare access to the Toyosu market floor, beyond the public observation galleries
A professional sushi chef at your side, with an English-speaking local guide
Choosing the day’s fish on the buyers’ floor with your chef
A walk through Tsukiji Outer Market
A multi-course seafood lunch, cut and shaped at the counter

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This private tour can be booked as a standalone day or included within a custom Japan itinerary, with hotels, transport, guides, cultural experiences, and local support arranged around your dates.

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What to expect

After years of controversy and delay, Tokyo’s legendary Tsukiji Market – once the largest wholesale fish market in the world – relocated to Toyosu in Tokyo Bay in October 2018. Where Tsukiji’s floor was once accessible to visitors, Toyosu now restricts the public to upper observation galleries only.

On this private experience, you go far beyond the viewing decks. Accompanied by a professional sushi chef, you gain rare access to the Toyosu market floor – a labyrinth of seafood stalls where the menus of Tokyo’s most celebrated restaurants are decided each morning. You select the finest ingredients with your chef, observe the rituals of professional fish buying, and end the morning at Tsukiji Outer Market before sitting down to a meal prepared from what you chose.

Visiting Toyosu: on your own or with a chef

Toyosu Market took over the wholesale trade of Tsukiji in October 2018. It stands on reclaimed land in Koto ward, a minute’s walk from Shijō-mae Station on the Yurikamome Line. There is no visitor parking.

On your own

Visitor areas open from 5:00 to 17:00 on market days. The market closes on Sundays, national holidays and most Wednesdays, so check the official calendar before you go. The tuna auction runs from about 5:30 to 6:30. You can watch it free of charge through the second-floor windows of the Fisheries Wholesale Market Building, open from 5:00. The observation deck, closer to the floor, takes 100 people a day by lottery. Applications open online the month before your visit.

Visitors stay on the walkways above the trading floor and watch through glass. Restaurants and shops are on the upper floors of the market buildings, each with its own hours. Next door, Senkyaku Banrai opened in February 2024 with a food hall and a hot-spring bath.

With a chef

Our tour goes where the walkway can’t. You enter the market floor with a professional sushi chef and choose fish at the wholesale stalls. Then you walk through Tsukiji Outer Market. Lunch is a multi-course seafood meal prepared from what you picked that morning. We meet at Shijō-mae Station at 08:00, on market days only.