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Tsukiji Outer Market
築地場外市場Tokyo · Kanto
The Tsukiji Outer Market is the surviving street of retail fishmongers, knife shops, tamagoyaki stalls and small restaurants — the tuna auction and the inner wholesale market left for Toyosu in 2018, so there is no auction to see here. Trading is a morning business: 6:00 to 9:00 is priority time for professional buyers, general shopping runs to about 14:00, and many stalls sell out and shutter earlier. It is closed on Sundays and national holidays.
- Best season
- Year-round
- Crowd level
- Popular
- Rating
- 4.2· 55,666 reviews
- Opening hours
- Mon–Sat 6:00 AM – 2:00 PM Sun Closed
- Admission
- Free — public market street of independent stalls
- Nearest station
- Shiodome Station · 18 min walk
- Website
- tsukiji.or.jp
Usual hours — confirm with the official site for holidays + seasonal closures.
Today
6:00–14:00Sun closedFreeStored weekly hours
Mon–Sat 6:00 AM – 2:00 PM Sun Closed
Note
- Day lines describe the market as a whole.
- Sunday closure is consistent across the market and is the one reliable weekly closure.
- The market also closes on national holidays, and over New Year, typically around December 30 to January 4.
- Some Wednesdays are closing days as well, but this is NOT every Wednesday — it follows the Tokyo Central Wholesale Market calendar, and it is mainly the larger fishmongers and wholesalers that shut.
- Street food and restaurants generally still trade on a Wednesday, so a Wednesday visit works for eating but is thinner for shopping.
- Check the official monthly calendar at tsukiji.or.jp before committing a Wednesday.
- Officially 6:00 AM – 9:00 AM is priority time for professional trade buyers; general public shopping is 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM.
- Visitors who are not trade buyers should plan for the 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM window, though many food stalls do serve tourists from around 7:00 AM.
- Every shop keeps its own hours.
- Many stalls sell out and close well before 2:00 PM, and quite a few shutter around 1:00 PM.
- The inner wholesale market and the tuna auction moved to Toyosu in 2018 — there is no auction at Tsukiji.
How to get there
From Tokyo Station · ~14 min by car
Tags
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