The Toyosu Fish Market has a total of 39 dining establishments, which are spread out among the three main market areas. The first floor of the Fruit and Vegetables area has three shops, the third floor of the Office Management area has 13 shops, and the third floor of the Marine Products Intermediate Wholesaler area has 22 shops.

The general public can use these facilities between 3:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., which is the same as the hours during which tours of the market are possible (as of July 2022). However, most of the shops close in the afternoon, so it's best to check their hours of operation ahead of time as they vary from shop to shop.

Almost all of the shops have a peak time around 11:00 a.m. and are usually crowded with lines of customers waiting to get in. Therefore, if you want to sample certain gourmet dishes, it's best to try to get there early in the morning. The best times to visit are between 8:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. considering the working hours of those working at the market.

In addition, the Toyosu Fish Market is easily accessible by public transportation. The closest train station is Shijo-mae Station on the Yurikamome Line. You can also get off at Toyosu Station on the Tokyo Metro Line or Shibashi Station on the JR Line. Metropolitan buses are another convenient way to get to the market.

If you're planning to drive, please note that only registered vehicles are allowed into the market's parking lot. Therefore, we highly recommend checking for other available parking lots before your visit.

Even at the former Tsukiji Market, you would always see a line in front of the popular sushi restaurant, Sushi Dai!

Maintaining its popularity since its move to Toyosu, this shop runs from 6:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. but usually closes at 11:00 a.m. on weekdays due to the sheer number of customers. What’s more, it usually ends up closing at 9:00 a.m. on Saturdays and holidays!

Since the number of customers served is set each day, we recommend going here for breakfast instead of lunch!

Most customers get the Tencho Omakase Set (5,000 yen including tax). Depending on the type of fish obtained that day, the types offered will vary, and the set usually contains ten kan (individual servings) and one type of rolled sushi. You may select a variety of your choice for the 10th and final kan!

As with most sushi shops with counters, you can watch the chef prepare the dishes. It is easy to become transfixed watching the skilled hands of the chef preparing each one.

This was the colorful selection served on the day we visited and which contained otoro (fatty tuna), anago (conger eel), uni (sea urchin), tai (red snapper), and sanma (Pacific saury).

One taste, and you’ll be in heaven. The fish is so fresh and delicious it is certain to bring a smile to your face. The tamagoyaki is equally delicious.

Despite being a famous sushi restaurant noted for the chef’s high skills and the food’s quality, you shouldn’t feel hesitant about entering because the shop has a friendly at-home atmosphere.

“We want you to enjoy yourself. It’s only natural to enjoy dining out and enjoying delicious food. For the occasion to be delightful, it is absolutely essential that the atmosphere also be important!” says the manager, Mr. Urushibara.

To foreign guests, he says, “Thank you!” and “Xièxiè!” to make them feel at home. There’s no doubt that it is not only the quality of the sushi but also the warm hospitality that attracts so many customers.

It is easy to understand why so many people line up to eat here. This is a shop I heartily recommend which will leave you feeling very satisfied.

Senriken started as a milk hall in Nihonbashi even before the Uogashi was moved to Tsukiji. Senriken is a long-established coffee shop that’s been operating for over 100 years, cheerfully serving the market workers for a very long time. It’s a recommended stop for both breakfast and lunch as it operates from 5:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

The Cream Stew with Soft Boiled Egg (620 yen including tax) has long been a standard on the shop’s menu. We recommend the special set in the morning, similar to those served in coffee shops, which is a half-size bowl of the cream stew with soft-boiled egg, toast, a small salad, and coffee (1,230 yen including tax). Even the half size, using one whole egg, is of a decent size.

Breaking open the egg in the stew releases the soft yellow yolk, which blends well. The gentle, creamy flavor is perfect for breakfast.

The Katsu Sandwich (pork cutlet sandwich) is also a popular menu item (820 yen including tax).

Ragout, a western-style restaurant near Suitengumae, is a sister shop of Senriken. The current owner of Senriken, Mr. Kawashima, opened it in 1983. Once you eat this sandwich, you will see why it is so popular. The meat is tender and has a crispy exterior which goes perfectly with the lightly toasted bread.

“Wow!” was all I could say when I saw the Miruko Soft Cream, a milk-coffee flavored soft ice cream dish (460 yen, including tax; 390 yen for takeout). It is served in a cup to make it easier to eat with a spoon.

Third-generation owner Mr. Kawashima says, “I wanted to make a flavor that I thought adults would like to eat and not tire of.”

This soft ice cream dish is a new addition to the menu that has been added since moving to Toyosu. It has a rich flavor of robustly roasted coffee, and the sweetness is subdued.

The shop also has a menu in English. It seems that a happy customer made it, and this shows how much the shop is loved by its regular customers.

You can get sandwiches, coffee, and soft-serve cream for takeout, too! (*As of July 2022, most items on the menu are available for takeout.) Stop by and enjoy Toyosu Fish Market’s historic cafe!

Tonkatsu Odayasu has been popular for its set lunches since it was in Tsukiji. The menu includes several other fried dishes, including seasonal oysters, in addition to its pork cutlets.

It started in 1938 as an izakaya (Japanese-style pub), and later the first owner shifted the focus to fried foods after training in a western-style restaurant.

The A Set Meal (1,750 yen including tax) is a popular menu item, with a fried prawn, crab cream croquette, and pork loin cutlet. The crispy fried prawn is pleasingly large!

The Scotch egg (1,600 yen including tax for a set meal) is a popular menu item only available at Odayasu. The soft-boiled egg wrapped in hamburger meat coated in bread crumbs and deep-fat fried has an excellent texture. In addition to being offered as a set meal, it is also possible to order Scotch eggs individually.

The fried oyster meal is a trendy seasonal item on the menu. (1,950 yen including tax). You will be amazed by their great size! The oysters are only available during the winter when they are in season and are large, plump, and juicy.

Regular fried oysters are already extravagant, but we recommend the butter sauteed oyster meal for those looking to elevate their experience further!

The menu has a rich selection of tasty dishes made with fresh seafood products from the market and the finest meats from butcher shops.

Primarily set meals are served; however, you may also order individual items that go especially well with drinks as a snack. There is also no charge for second helpings of rice. Once you find the one thing you like, try a little bit of the other items on the menu, too. This is a great place to have a drink with delicious snacks.

Usually, Odayasu is packed with customers between 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. It closes at 3:00 p.m., and the last orders must be made by 2:00 p.m., so you will need to get there before then. The shop also has a menu in English.

In addition to the shop in Toyosu Fish Market, there’s an off-site Odayasu in Tsukiji, with a lunch and dinner menu we recommend checking out!

Most likely, many visitors going to the market are looking for places to eat sushi and fresh seafood dishes, but Nakaei, established in 1912, has excellent Indian curry. The curries are all made by hand following original recipes handed down through generations, giving each a comforting and nostalgic flavor.

The base for each curry varies according to the type, so you can enjoy different flavors. Popular types are the Indo Curry (pork), Beef Curry, Broiled Pork, and Seafood Curry. The Aigake (700 yen including tax) is a popular dish containing two different kinds of curry.

The Aigake (800 yen including tax) is a popular dish where you can choose two different kinds of curry! Curry choices include the Indo Curry (pork), Beef Curry, Broiled Pork, or Hayashi Rice.

As a side note, the Indo Curry is mildly spicy. The Beef Curry is slightly spicy. The Hayashi Rice (hashed beef rice) has a mild flavor with a hint of tart tomato. If you like your curry spicy, for an additional 100 yen, you can have it made spicier.

As most visitors come to the market to sample the seafood, a must-try is the Tsukiji Uogashi Seafood Curry (1,200 yen including tax) made from the freshest catches available! This dish has a rich seafood flavor due to the delicious snow crab, shrimp, and scallop ingredients.

You can also enjoy these flavors at home as the curries are also sold as gifts. Each contains about five servings and costs 1,500 yen (including tax).

All of the curry dishes and Hayashi rice come with cabbage and toppings; the Nakaei style for eating them is to mix them with the curry. Combined with the roux, the spiciness becomes milder, making for a more refreshing taste.

Adding Fukujinzuke (a Japanese version of chutney) accentuates the tart taste that adds flavor. A pay-in-advance method is used here, so you need to pay when you order.

The shop is always packed with people who work at the market because of its reasonable prices and hearty portions. This “cafeteria of the market” lives up to its reputation for providing market workers with filling and satisfying dishes. The menu is only in Japanese, but I’m confident you will enjoy the original curry flavors in this warm atmosphere.

From the time it was located in the Tsukiji Market, Tenfusa has been a well-known tempura restaurant. Now it is located on the first floor of the Fruit and Vegetables building. It is so popular that overseas guests who often come to Japan make it a point to eat here regularly. There is also a simple menu in English.

In keeping with the character of the market, it serves ”tempura that can be eaten even from the morning,” and special attention is paid to the oil and panko bread crumbs used in making it. This is evident in the light, perfectly fried breaded morsels that, when tasted, make you forget that it is fried food. It’s a meal perfect for mornings.

One recommended dish is the tendon (tempura bowl)! You have the two options of the regular tendon (1,000 yen including tax) or the larger-sized Jyo-tendon (2,100 yen including tax). As the sauce has remained unchanged for 20 years, you can taste this dish’s history.

A rare seasonal dish that’s popular is the prawn tempura! This fragrant tempura is packed with umami flavor. What’s more, for those who want to pick and choose their own tempura, you can ask for a customized bowl! We also recommend ordering items separately to enjoy the type of tempura you like best!

And while it is a tempura restaurant, it has another popular set meal as well: red meat of southern Bluefin tuna served together with tempura. When you come to the market, you really should try the sashimi! Visitors from overseas who enjoy sashimi will find this to be the perfect place.

Mr. Suzuki, the cheerful proprietor of the shop, says special attention is paid to using rice that makes for a delicious meal in the morning.

He has polished rice made from unpolished rice by a specialized rice farmer directly sent to him. The special care given to this selection of rice further brings out the flavor of the tempura.

In addition to delicious tempura, there is a variety of other menu selections, including sashimi and stewed fish.

Like sushi, tempura is a Japanese food that is a must. From 11 in the morning until the restaurant closes, there is always a line of customers waiting to get in, so if you plan to visit, I suggest you come early in the morning for breakfast. Tenfusa is located on the first floor of the Fruit and Vegetable Building close to the station, so you can’t miss it.

Ooedo was founded around 1909. Before the Toyosu or Tsukiji market, it could be found at the first Nihonbashi Market.

Ooedo is a seafood bowl specialty shop with a history of feeding hungry market workers. Although Toyosu Fish Market already offers daily fresh catches, Ooedo prides itself on selecting from regions with the best seasonal seafood. This long-established shop also relies on experts to help them choose items of the highest quality!

This restaurant offers endless options for toppings and dishes! Customers who want to try a variety of seafood should order the Gorogoro Fisherman’s Meal (2,600 yen including tax) stacked with large-portioned toppings!

With a total of 14 ingredients, this bowl has tuna, seared bonito slices, yellowtail, salmon, minced tuna, sea bream, vinegared mackerel, boiled octopus, silver-stripe round herring, scallops, squid, a Japanese-style rolled omelet, pickled radish, and toasted seaweed!

The photo above is a version of the previous meal with extra salmon roe called Extra Salmon Roe Fisherman’s Meal (3,200 yen including tax). This salmon roe-packed meal has so many toppings, you can’t see the rice!

We recommend eating this bowl by mixing soy sauce and wasabi together to pour on top! In addition to the large seafood toppings, the pickled radish enhances the flavor of the luxurious Fisherman’s Meal. What’s more, the toasted seaweed is quite large, enabling you to wrap your favorite toppings to make a sushi roll!

Another dish you must try is the Sea Urchin Hokkaido Bowl (3,400 yen including tax)! Extravagantly topped with raw sea urchin, it’s a unique dish that’s rare to find anywhere else! The bowl is filled with Hokkaido-representative seafood such as shrimp, crab, sea urchin, salmon roe, salmon, and scallops!

This is another dish recommended eating with a mixture of soy sauce and wasabi poured on top. Each topping is unbelievably chunky and big! Offering new ways to enjoy seafood than just the normal nigiri (hand-formed sushi), you won’t be able to get enough of the fatty salmon, creamy sea urchin, and sweet shrimp! All meals come with miso soup, and a larger portion of rice can be ordered for an additional 100 yen.

The restaurant is welcoming with its counter tables and friendly staff! The menus have photos of all the dishes, so you can order easily even if you don’t understand Japanese (menus in foreign languages are scheduled for development).

One of Tsukiji Fish Market’s popular and long-established restaurants, Washoku Katou, has reopened at Toyosu Fish Market as Ikinoya. Seafood dishes at Toyosu Fish Market usually include some type of sushi! However, some foreign visitors don’t like raw fish.

Ikinoya is the perfect stop for such customers as it also serves grilled or boiled fish. Moreover, this restaurant has a range of fish dishes, such as original meals made from rarely used cuts of the fish!

One of the top dishes served here is the Miso-marinated Black Cod (2,350 yen including tax). As it was a previous staple at Washoku Katou, the original flavors of this meal have been recreated faithfully. The miso paste used to marinate the black cod is homemade, and there’s a perfect balance of sweetness that will have you reaching for more rice!

The fatty slice of black cod is absolutely mouthwatering! Foreign visitors who aren’t accustomed to eating such dishes should also give it a try!

The restaurant manager, Mr. Yanagisawa, enthusiastically suggested, “I highly recommend delicious tuna haramo (located in the abdomen under the fatty tuna) and tuna tail!”

Those who prefer luxurious seafood bowls should go for the Big Catch Bowl (2,700 yen including tax). Generous cuts of eight seafood toppings cover a bed of rice!

This includes golden eye snapper, lean tuna, young yellowtail, domestic salmon, salmon roe, scallops, raw shrimp, and kelp with herring roe. With this bowl, customers can enjoy unique seafood toppings such as golden eye snapper and kelp with herring roe!

Please try this dish by mixing wasabi with soy sauce and pouring it over the rice. Each hefty topping is so thick, you’ll struggle to lift them with chopsticks. This is a bowl you’ll be more than satisfied with!

Customers looking to try a mix of raw and cooked fish by sharing various meals with families or friends should order the Sashimi Meal (2,650 yen including tax). Sashimi slices this big would cost a fortune when made into sushi! Since the raw fish slices are separated from the rice, it’s a nice meal when wanting to try a few things at a time.

This spacious restaurant largely has table seating. Although most market restaurants can’t fit large groups, Ikinoya can accommodate parties over four! Menus don’t come in other languages, but photos of each dish make it easy to order (menus in foreign languages scheduled for development).

For Japanese people, sushi is a special dish, whereas grilled fish with rice and miso soup is an everyday staple. Ikinoya’s offers homestyle cooking but makes it taste professional! This gem of a restaurant has a variety of fish dishes to enjoy!

The Toyosu Fish Market plays a central role in Tokyo’s and Japan’s food culture! Because this market imports ingredients from various regions of the country, visitors can delight in fresh, cheap, and delicious meals!

Foodies won’t be disappointed with the many dining options at long-established restaurants that keep true to their founding flavors or eateries that have modernized their tastes to suit current times better! Please come to the Toyosu Fish Market to taste some of the rare delicacies offered!

*This article has been updated from the original piece published in 2019.