This tour is a Sushi workshop and a walking tour of the Tsukiji Fish Market. This market is the world's biggest seafood market.
Before doing your Sushi workshop, you will learn about Japanese foods at Tsukiji area. There are many different kinds of Japanese foods and they may be difficult to understand.
Following the walking tour, you will learn to make your own Sushi. Even though it takes more than 10 years practice to become a Sushi master, you will have a chance to be taught how to expertly prepare Nigiri by a Sushi master.
The itinerary is as follows:
8:30am - Meetup at Tsukiji Honganji Temple
8:30am to 10am - Explore the Tsukiji outer market (Learn what's Japanese food)
10am to 11:00am - Explore the Tsukiji Uogashi wholesale market and move to Sushi workshop
11am to 12am - Sushi making workshop
12am to 12:30am - Lunch (taste your handmade sushi)
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Tsukiji Honganji, 3-chōme-15-1 Tsukiji, Chuo City, Tokyo 104-8435, Japan
08:30 AM
4 hours(approx.)
Shinjuku City, Tokyo, Japan
Not wheelchair accessible
Stroller accessible
Near public transportation
Infant seats available
[ Meetup ] 8:15am @The main gate of Tsukiji Honganji-Temple *We will leave at start time sharp, so please make sure to be there on time!(We could not wait!)
*It's front side of Tsukiji Honganji temple. Please don't go to back side. (Google maps leads you backside.)
On the day of your tour, our guide will be waiting at the meeting place with a board saying "Japan Wonder Travel".
Please come with comfortable walking shoes as this tour is mainly a walking tour.
There could be a delay at when tour ends, if you have an appointment or plan right after this tour please let us know in advance
In case of late arrival, the tour cannot be extended.
No refunds will be given for cancellations or late arrivals on the day of the tour.
Tsukiji inner market(business area) have moved to Toyosu after 6th Oct 2018. In this tour, we will visit Tsukiji outer market and mini wholesale area to introduce Japanese food and culture.
Infants and toddlers are free of charge, but if they want to try their hand at making sushi, they must use their parent/guardians sushi kit. They will not receive their own sushi kit to make.
Unfortunately, we do not accommodate vegetarian, halal, gluten-free requests, or allergy-related requests.
This tour/activity will have a maximum of 20 travelers
Confirmation will be received at time of booking
Posted By : rtimleonard
Great tour with Mieko of the fish market and sushi making. Meiko was very welcoming, knowledgeable and made the day a great experience.
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Posted On : 2024-05-14
Posted By : Monique_L
Great tour of the fish market and the sushi chef was so fun! We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. I would highly recommend this tour
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Posted On : 2024-05-10
Posted By : ANotherSmith94
Our guide Akiko was incredible. She was incredibly sweet and very knowledgable. At the fish market, she would point out stalls she recommended we try and we would ask if we should try certain foods at certain places and she'd give great suggestions. She was also really good about taking our pictures. From the fish market, we went to a sushi restaurant and learned how to make sushi. The staff didn't speak English but Akiko was a great translater for us and everyone there was so sweet. We got so much food and it was such a fun experience. I defintely recommend.
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Posted On : 2024-04-29
Posted By : kittyhead
Yoko took us to Tsukiji Market and was so knowledgeable about the area, food and history. Her English is impeccable and was really open to questions and flexible to our needs. She's a wonderful guide. We would have never seen so much had we done this on our own.
She then took us to a sushi restaurant in Asakusa where we learned to make sushi from the chef there. It was so fun to do and the fish was fresh and delicious.
I highly recommend Yoko and this tour.
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Posted On : 2024-04-24
Posted By : alxgirl82
This tour was incredibly overpriced, provided no value, and the guide made me so uncomfortable as a solo female traveler I literally had to run away from him.
From what I understand, the guide had only been working with the company for about a month, but that doesn't excuse his lack of knowledge. I paid for a tour hoping to learn about the fish market, the food, the culture etc. However, the guide offered zero information, he rushed around the market, and just pointed to stalls/restaurants saying "you want to buy this?". I asked him why I'd want to buy something to see if he offered any details about what he was telling us to buy. Was it a special item, what was unique about it, was it traditional? He just shrugged. Instead of focusing on food stalls, he seemed particularly interested in showing us tea and knife shops, I'm assuming for commission.
To make things even worst, he made me feel so uncomfortable by the end that a couple that was on the tour offered to walk me back to my hotel because the guide just wouldn't leave me alone. (I even said I was going to leave early before the tour ended just to try to shake him off and instead he said he was going to join the couple and I to take the train to where we were going.) We didn't want to be rude to him, but by the time we arrived at our train stop, I literally ran away into a crowd so he would not follow me.
The tour was bad, but the experience with the pushy guide made for a horrible first time experience in Japan. Ironically, Japan is always listed as one of the safest countries for a solo female traveler! Note that I've been to 50+ countries and have traveled alone, so it's rare that a man makes me feel uncomfortable, but this guide literally had me running away from him.
I went back to the fish market a few days later by myself and it was SO MUCH BETTER to just walk around alone exploring the different stalls at my own pace. I recommend you do the same.
I'm not sure what the tour offered that validated the $100+ price tag? It didn't include anything and there were tours a fraction of the price offering just a guided tour.
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Posted On : 2024-04-22
Posted By : Sue_H
Experience described as 4 hour sushi making and fish market tour however the majority of the time was spent wandering round the fish market and travelling to the sushi making venue. The actual sushi making was poor as the chef didn’t speak English and only a small part seemed to be translated by the guide. Raw ingredients were already out on the table when we arrived so it was just an assembly task which was very rushed so they could get the next lot in. Would not recommend.
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Posted On : 2024-04-21
Posted By : Priscilla_F
Tour operator was very patient to accommodate our unexpected change in timings and was communicative. Whilst we did miss the market tour, the sushi making experience was fun!
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Posted On : 2024-04-13
Posted By : Voyage46609230816
Excellent tour, real fun, diverse, interesting. Very good Sushi, and not only Sushi but also tempura. We were with guide Akiko.
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Posted On : 2024-04-11
Posted By : jackwI4595YC
Akiko was the best tour guide ever, such a great experience! Thoroughly recommend, really enjoyed the fish market tour before and th sushi making was brilliant , thank you!
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Posted On : 2024-04-07
Posted By : Josie_M
Great experience. Our tour guide was great. Seeing the fish market was super cool and then doing the sushi making was all amazing!
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Posted On : 2024-04-05
