6-6-1 Toyosu, Koto, Tokyo, Japan
Mon-Sat: 5.00am - 5.00pm
Toyosu Market is a wholesale market built on reclaimed land at Tokyo Bay. It comprises an auction seafood market, a general wholesale seafood market and a market selling fruits and vegetables, each housed in a separate building. First opened to the public in the last quarter of 2018, it has replaced the historic Tsukiji Market as the largest seafood market in the world.
My BFF and I took a train to Toyosu railway station. From there, we walked approximately 1.2 km to reach the market.
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If you don't feel like walking, you can take another train to Shijo-mae station,
which is located just outside the market, along the Yurikamome Line. |
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| Construction of the market began in 2016. |
First things first, we went to the enclosed area full of eateries in the same building as the general wholesale market, hoping that we'd be able to join the queue at the renowned Sushi Dai. Sadly, they couldn't accept any more customers that day.
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| Take note that Sushi Dai is closed on Wednesdays and Sundays. |
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Yoshinoya began its business in 1899 at Nihonbashi Market in 1899.
When the market was devastated by Great Kanto Earthquake, it moved to Tsukiji Market in 1926. |
Feeling a bit disappointed, we decided to try
Iwasa Sushi.
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| Take delight at the view of the chef preparing your meal from the counter seat. |
After filling our bellies, we made our way to the modern market on the upper floors called Uogashi Yokocho, which features over 100 shops. We had to pass through a walkway that doubles up as a gallery.
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| A quick guide to seasonal fishes! |
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| I like amberjack. Do you? |
Tourists aren't allowed to go to the wet market section. You can still go to Tsukiji outer market for the experience.
Have you played Pokémon: Let’s Go on Nintendo Switch? Alas, I don't have the gaming device.
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| The lanes are labelled as streets to make it easier to find your way. |
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| That's a nice shop to buy some edible souvenirs. |
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| Some of those knives look really scary. |
We moved on to the auction seafood market, dropping by the tourist information centre first.
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| The market's mascot resembles those iconic turret trucks used in the premise. |
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| Looking through all those photos felt pretty therapeutic to me. |
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| There are only very few English captions there. |
At the hall of the auction viewing platform is a life-size model of one of the biggest bluefin tunas ever traded at Tsukiji Market. Weighing 496 kg, it was caught in the waters of Tanegashima Island in Kagoshima Prefecture.
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| Such a humongous tuna can apparently make 15,000 tuna rolls! |
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Bigeye tunas are found in the subtropical and tropical areas of the Atlantic
(but not in the Mediterranean), Indian and Pacific Oceans. |
To watch a live auction from the viewing platform in the morning, each visitor needs to pick up and wear a visitor's pass of limited quantities.
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| I still haven't seen a live tuna auction at the point of writing. |
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| I wonder how many workers are there at such an enormous market. |
We didn't check out fruit and vegetable market, so unfortunately I don't have photos of that at all.
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