Tsukiji & Toyosu Fish Markets in One Day
Watch the tuna auction at Toyosu before dawn, eat a seafood bowl breakfast, graze through the Tsukiji Outer Market, then walk it off in Hamarikyu Garden.
Last updated 2026-09-03 · 1-day self-guided plan
Tsukiji & Toyosu
Tuna auction at dawn, sushi by breakfast, garden by noon
For food-first travellers who do not mind a very early alarm and want both the modern wholesale market and the old-town street stalls in one morning.
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Toyosu Market tuna auction deck
Take the Yurikamome from Shimbashi to Shijo-mae; the first trains get you to Toyosu around 5:30, when the auction is in full swing. The free upper viewing deck of the Fish Wholesale Building looks down on rows of frozen tuna and buyers with hooked poles. Bring a coat, the corridors are chilly, and follow the signs, the buildings are huge.
1 HourCost: Free 
2Seafood bowl breakfast at Toyosu
By 7:00 the restaurant floors in the Fish Intermediate Wholesale Building and the Management Building are open. The famous sushi counters that moved here from Tsukiji draw queues of an hour or more; a kaisendon bowl of raw fish over rice at one of the smaller shops is quicker and just as fresh. Pay cash at most counters.
45 MinutesCost: ¥2,000–5,000
3Tsukiji Outer Market
Ride the Yurikamome back to Shiodome and walk 10 minutes, or take the Oedo Line one stop to Tsukijishijo; aim to arrive around 8:30 before the tour groups. The wholesale floor moved out, but the lanes of stalls stayed: tamagoyaki on a stick, grilled scallops, uni, and knife shops sharpening blades in the window. Most stalls wind down by early afternoon.
1.5–2 HoursCost: ¥1,500–3,000- 4
Namiyoke Shrine and Tsukiji Hongan-ji
Namiyoke Shrine sits at the market's edge and was the fishmongers' guardian for three centuries; look for the memorial stones to sushi, eggs and shrimp. Five minutes north is Tsukiji Hongan-ji, a Buddhist temple built in an Indian-inspired stone style that looks nothing like the rest of Tokyo. Both are free and take a quarter of an hour each.
45 MinutesCost: Free 
5Hamarikyu Garden
Walk 10 minutes west along the canal to Hamarikyu, a former shogun's duck-hunting garden with a tidal pond ringed by the Shiodome towers. The teahouse on the island serves matcha and a sweet; the plum and rapeseed fields bloom in late winter and spring. From the pier, a water bus runs up the Sumida River to Asakusa if you want to keep going.
1.5–2 HoursCost: ¥300–500
Day 1 Estimated Cost
- Food¥3,500–8,000
- Transport¥800–1,500
- Admissions¥300–1,500
Tips
The Yurikamome is the only easy way to Toyosu that early: check the first departure from Shimbashi the night before, and use an IC card for the return leg to Tsukiji.
Toyosu means long corridors and Tsukiji means wet floors: closed shoes with grip, and nothing you mind splashing.
Eat the sit-down meal at Toyosu and graze at Tsukiji, not the other way round; the Outer Market stalls are best as a slow second breakfast.
The auction deck is glass and reflective, so press the lens to the pane and turn off the flash; at Tsukiji ask before photographing a stall's counter.