Tsukiji Fish Market: Explore Local Culinary Culture and Taste Delectable Foods on a Walking Tour
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Chuo City
Immerse yourself in the vibrant Tsukiji Fish Market on a walking tour. Discover local culinary culture, taste delectable foods, and witness face-to-face conversations between buyers and sellers.
Duration: 3 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Tsukiji Hongwanji Temple - Meet your guide in front of the gate of Tsukiji Honganji Temple at 8:15am and start exploring the Tsukiji fish market on this 3-hour food-focused tour.
  • Tsukiji Jogai Market - Soak up the sights, sounds, and smells, and learn about Tsukiji’s 80-year history as the biggest fish market in Japan.

For local people, Tsukiji is a special place to buy the freshest, high-quality seafood and ingredients. This market is also special place for chefs and many chefs of Michelin-star restaurants come to Tsukiji in the morning to buy their ingredients.

While wandering through the colorful market, check out its fresh produce, from tuna to octopus tentacles, and get ready to eat and drink as the locals do. Learn about Japanese culture while sampling various kinds of symbolic Japanese foods along the way, such as Japanese-style omelettes, fried fish cakes, Dashi soup and Katsuobushi (dried bonito), Japanese tea, sake, and sushi.

  • The Tsukiji Market - We will do food tour.
  • Tsukiji Hitachiya - If you need kitchen tool, we stop by in the tour.
  • Tsukiji Uogashi - We also pass by mini wholesale market to see hundreds kinds of freshest fishes!!
  • Tsukiji Fish Market - We wrap up our tour with a delightful serving of delicious fish bowl!
What's Included
  • Snacks
  • Local professional guide
  • Food tasting including Japanese omelette, fried fish cake, fresh tuna
  • Sake and Japanese tea
  • Fish bowl experience
What's Not Included
  • Hotel pickup/drop-off
  • Extra food and drinks
  • Other personal expenses
  • Transportation fee to meeting point
Additional Information

Join us as we delve into Tsukiji, a bustling marketplace with over 80 years of history, beloved by locals and professional chefs alike. This tour gives you a taste of the regional gastronomic tradition and lets you experience superior culinary offerings.

Begin your adventure at Tsukiji Honganji Temple, from where our adept local guides will lead you to a selection of our much-loved food stores, all selling top tier foods, beverages, and cookware. Take this opportunity to explore both the retailer outlets and the wholesale division, whilst treating yourself to complementary servings (Japanese green tea, Dashi soup, etc.) alongside the offerings listed below.

Revel in the matchless ambiance of a marketplace that remarkably endured the ravages of World War II. Here you will often witness the rare spectacle of direct chit-chats between purchasers and vendors, a scene hard to come by in the vast cityscape of Tokyo. Included in the tour are;

  1. A Japanese omelet
  2. Deep fried fish cake
  3. Fresh Tuna Sashimi
  4. Sake
  5. Sushi at one of the local restaurants.
  • [ Meetup ] @The main gate of Tsukiji Honganji-Temple We will leave at start time sharp, so please make sure to be there on time!(We could not wait!) It’s front side of Tsukiji Honganji temple. Please don’t go to back side. (Google maps leads you backside.)
  • Walking shoes are recommended.
  • Minimum drinking age is 20 years. So we offer another drink for under 20.
  • In case of late arrival, the tour cannot be extended.
  • No refunds will be given for cancellations or late arrivals on the day of the tour.
  • Infant meal is not included.
  • Unfortunately, we do not accommodate vegetarian, halal, gluten-free requests, or allergy-related requests.
  • Unfortunately, if you can’t eat fish, you won’t be able to join the tour
Location
Tsukiji Honganji
[ Meetup ] @The main gate of Tsukiji Honganji-Temple *We will leave at start time sharp, so please make sure to be there on time! *It's front side of Tsukiji Honganji temple. Please don't go to back side. (Google maps leads you backside.)
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Joshlm2647gp
May 28, 2024
Great Tsukiji Fish Market Tour - Ayumi was great. She showed us amazing food and made the Tsukiji market feel small and easy to navigate. Would highly recommend this tour to anyone looking to eat their way thru the Tsukiji fish market.
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S8585ylcharliep
May 27, 2024
Ariagto - Very friendly guide. Helpful. Very fun. We ate a lot of good food. All of the places we went were lovely and the guide did a great job at explaining everything and answering all of our questions.
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P8866zkdylank
May 27, 2024
Delicious Fish! - The food was very fresh, especially the fish! Walking around the market was nice even in the rain. Romy was so sweet and funny too!
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Craiglf730mh
May 27, 2024
Highly recommend for families - Our guide Naomi was phenomenal and gave great explanations of the fish market history, food descriptions, etc. We had a great time tasting the menu and exploring the area.
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Bernadette_k
May 26, 2024
Excellent! - Our guide, Nana, was excellent, and the whole tour was an excellent experience. Exceeded my expectations. Thanks for a great excursion!
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Colinmadtown
May 25, 2024
Wonderful Tokyo fish market tour - We toured the fish market and old town Tokyo with our guide, Romy. Romy was a wonderful tour guide. She was very informative and enthusiastic. She was very knowledgeable about the history of the market and Japanese history. She took us to great market stalls and we had delicious snacks, sushi and saki. We also went on a tour to the old down and shrines. Romy was a fabulous guide, we thoroughly enjoyed our tour and her company.
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Andyjm1956
May 24, 2024
Well worth it - We really enjoyed our tour of the fish market with our guide Sam. He really knew his way around and was great with the group. The amount of tastes and samples included in your ‘fare’ is great. Also included was a sit-down fresh fish lunch from the best of the markets.
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Carolinecv6351bs
May 23, 2024
Outstanding - Monami was a marvelous, knowledgeable tour guide! Great tour. Thank you so much. Really liked visiting the temple. Do not eat a big breakfast before this tour!!
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A469knmatthewh
May 23, 2024
Highlight of Tokyo Trip - Romy was a wonderful guide. I had been to Japan before, and this market was one of the places I wanted to come back. The tour itself was fantastic with a good variety of stops, and Romy was exceptionally knowledgeable, kind, and a great overall guide. Highly recommend.
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J8214hajamesw
May 22, 2024
Fish market - Was an amazing experience with tones of cool fish and foods/street stalls Very amazing and informative guide, Kay. Loved the fatty tuna
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