Complete Tuna Auction & Toyosu Fish Market Tour
Overview
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Experience all of Toyosu Fish Market with Fumi, a licensed guide with over 8 years of experience.
This tour accommodates a maximum of 2 groups, with a total of up to 7 people.
◆ Meeting Point (around 4:30)
Your guide will pick you up at your hotel. Enjoy a mini Tokyo tour along the way.
◆ Tuna Auction Tour (5:00–6:30)
Watch the entire auction process from start to finish, from the closest spot available, including the tuna inspection.
◆ Toyosu Market Tour (6:30–9:00)
Your guide will lead you through the market, where you'll learn about the market, and Japanese food and culture.
Enjoy authentic sushi at a top market spot with reservations—no waiting outside. (* Breakfast is not included in the tour price).
The market is also the best place to sample and shop for authentic souvenirs like fruits, wasabi, Japanese sweets, green tea, miso, sake, nori, dashi (dried kelp), kitchen knives, and tableware.
Enjoy panoramic views of Tokyo and learn about the city's history and geography.
Additional Info
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Public transportation options are available nearby
Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
Please provide the name of your hotel, along with any requests or questions, in the 'Special Requests' or message section.
For a group of 4 or more people, the tour will be a private tour.
This tour can only be booked by participants and can not by travel agents.
If we do not receive a response from you within two weeks or more, your booking may be subject to cancellation.
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
What‘s Included
Please see Pickup details(Please provide your hotel in the 'Special Requests' section.)
Guide Fees
Your transportation cost from your hotel to the market
Breakfast price
Meeting and Pickup
Pickup points
Select a pickup point
End points
What To Expect
Toyosu Market
◆ Meeting point (around 4:30) Your guide will pick you up at your hotel.. Enjoy his mini Tokyo tour on the way ◆Tuna Auction tour (5:00–6:30) Watch the entire auction process from the best public place from start to finish, starting with tuna inspection from 5:00 to 5:30 ◆Toyosu Market Tour (6:30–9:00) Your nationally licensed experienced guide with over 7 years of expertise will lead you on a market tour. Explore Toyosu Market, sample a variety of Japanese foods, and gain insights into the inner workings, history, food distribution, and learn about Japanese food traditions and manners, all about sushi including sushi etiquette and its history, umami, dashi, fish aging etc Enjoy an authentic sushi without standing in line at one of the best sushi restaurants in the market! The market is an ideal place to shop for a wide range of authentic souvenirs such as Japanese fruits, Japanese sweets, green tea, miso, sake, kitchen knives and tableware. EnjoyTokyo's skyline views from the rooftop
Shijō-mae Sta.
At the end of the tour, around 09:00: Your guide will either put you in a cab and see you off, or take you to the nearest station Shijō-mae Station and see you off.
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Tuna Auction and Toyosu Market Tour
Duration: 5 hours
Reviews
33 reviews
Total reviews and rating from Viator & Tripadvisor
Best Toyosu Market Private Tour!
Greg C,
Jul 11, 2025
- Viator
5.00We cannot express how great of an experience this private tour was! For years we have been looking forward to visiting Tokyo, Japan and specifically the Toyosu Market to witness the live tuna auction. This was hands-down the best private tour we have had! Fumi (our tour guide) was phenomenal! Extremely knowledgeable on the market and the auction. Very friendly and professional as well. He went above and beyond any expectations! We had a group of 5 and it was perfect. We highly recommend this tour!
Value added tour of Toyosu Tuna Market and Auction - recommended!
Kimberly L,
Jul 11, 2025
- Viator
5.00Was worth the cost of about $125 pp on current exchange rate. Fumi came to our Ginza hotel at 430am to arrange the taxi to Toyosu market (we reimbursed him). After a 15,min ride we got off, and went into the general public area overlooking the laid out tuna (no one there yet in viewing area) and explained about the different tuna and the buying system.we were about to see. He had communicated with us 1 month before about how to lottery for the closest viewing area and we were successful. We then checked in to the 2nd floor lotteries viewing area to see the auction and Fumi interpreted what number and how much (all done by hand signals). We were then taken to a little sushi shop in the same complex which normally doesn’t take reservations but our guide must have a relationship because we got seated before some others who were waiting in line. We paid for the breakfast and it was amazing sushi. We then go to go through an “authorized person only door” to the professional fish market to see quickly the middlemen selling to restaurateurs. The rest of the time was visiting various shops in the complex to learn about Japanese cooking with low/no pressure purchasing for us of dashi soup stock and green tea and a couple of Toyosu market bags, and then going onto the roof to look over Tokyo bay and some information on earthquake mitigation. Very efficient and I felt value added tour given the maze of corridors we had to navigate. I also liked being able to ask what people were queueing for to see if I might want to come back later. Fumi is very knowledgeable and has amazing handouts and a binder full of very interesting and instructional info on seafood, cooking, earthquakes etc, but does have very strongly accented English which may take a little time getting used to. Just ask him to repeat if you didn’t catch something. He is also great about taking pictures. All the guards and staff seemed to know Fumi. Thanks Fumi!
5-star reviews say it all!
Amy W,
Jul 10, 2025
- Viator
5.00Fumi is fun, funny and fundamentally fantastic!! He was by far the best guide we had through our entire 15-day trip in Japan! (May 2025)
Amazing tour
Rodolfo U,
Jul 8, 2025
- Viator
5.00Our tour guide Fumi was amazing. He had an unbelievable amount of knowledge about the tuna market, Tokyo, and the infrastructure of the city. I enjoyed our morning with him as much as anything else we did throughout our 3-week trip to Asia.
A wealth of sushi knowledge
Jessica C,
Jun 20, 2025
- Viator
5.00It’s a long morning, but so educational & worth it. We were picked up by Fumi at our hotel at 4:30am, we then took a taxi to the fish auction. We reimbursed him for the taxi ride. The auction was huge, fast paced, and fun to watch! After the auction, we enjoyed a sushi breakfast. It was the best sushi I had during my 18 day stay in Japan. Then, Fumi walked us all around the market, educating us about all kinds of things & providing samples. Fun morning, I’d recommend it!
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