Tokyo Tsukiji Fish Market Tour and Sushi Making Lesson
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Tokyo, Japan
- 3 hours (approx.)
- Mobile ticket
- Offered in: English
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Overview
Learn about Japanese cuisine in an immersive fashion when you combine a walking tour of Tsukiji Outer Fish Market and cooking class. Shop for the freshest ingredients in the labyrinthine aisles of Tsukiji Outer Fish Market. Then head to class, where you’ll learn how to prepare—and get the chance to eat—a range of traditional Japanese items.
- A must for anyone who loves cooking and eating
- An English-speaking guide helps you break through language barriers
- Learn to prepare dishes that emphasize homemade, traditional techniques
- Small group sizes ensure personal attention from your instructor
What's Included
- English-speaking guide
- Transportation between Tsukiji Market and Cooking Studio
- Use of apron
- Drinking water at cooking studio
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Tuna auction watching
Meeting and Pickup
Meeting point
- Tsukiji Hongwan-ji Temple3-chōme-15-1 Tsukiji, Chuo City, Tokyo 104-8435, Japan
Departure Point: Tsukiji Honganji Temple, in front of the main gate. *Tour guide will be holding your name on paper.
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Itinerary
Meet your guide just outside the famous seafood market. Visit the popular Tsukiji Outer Fish Market and browse the shopping and sample tasting areas. As you wander the aisles of this colorful, chaotic market, observe everything from giant tuna to sea urchin to octopus arranged for sale.
Once you’ve had your ‘fill’ of seafood, proceed with your guide to the gourmet cooking studio of one of Asia’s largest culinary schools, boasting more than 150 studios throughout the region. Following the instruction of an experienced cooking teacher, learn to prepare two ‘washoku’ recipes, a style of Japanese cuisine emphasizing traditional and homemade techniques. This typically includes a sushi roll along with a Japanese-style omelet, called ‘tamagoyaki,’ plus side dishes.
Finish your session by digging into your tasty creations for lunch, enjoying your meal accompanied by your choice of wine, plum sake or soft drinks. Leave with a full stomach and a newfound appreciation for the wondrous world of Japanese cuisine and its top-notch ingredients.
Once you’ve had your ‘fill’ of seafood, proceed with your guide to the gourmet cooking studio of one of Asia’s largest culinary schools, boasting more than 150 studios throughout the region. Following the instruction of an experienced cooking teacher, learn to prepare two ‘washoku’ recipes, a style of Japanese cuisine emphasizing traditional and homemade techniques. This typically includes a sushi roll along with a Japanese-style omelet, called ‘tamagoyaki,’ plus side dishes.
Finish your session by digging into your tasty creations for lunch, enjoying your meal accompanied by your choice of wine, plum sake or soft drinks. Leave with a full stomach and a newfound appreciation for the wondrous world of Japanese cuisine and its top-notch ingredients.
1
Tsukiji Hongwanji Temple
5 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
2
Tsukiji Fish Market
1 hour • Admission Ticket Free
3
ABC Cooking Travel
1 hour 30 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Additional Info
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- Not wheelchair accessible
- Near public transportation
- Not recommended for travelers with back problems
- Not recommended for pregnant travelers
- No heart problems or other serious medical conditions
- Most travelers can participate
- We may spend approx. 70 min at outer shopping market instead.
- Minimum of 2 guests required to run tour
- Minimum age is 9 years old
- Minimum height is 4.2 ft. (130 cm)
- No strollers and luggage is allowed
- We may publish photos taken during the activity onto our website, social network service and any advertisement.
- ★Cooking ingredients may differ from the image in the ad.
- ★The contents change according to the season of the ingredients, arrival status, etc.
- ★In case we may have to ask you to cancel any lesson we offer owing to unavoidable circumstances, you will get a full refund. (Or reschedule requests without any refund.)
- You can ask for alternate the ingredients
- This tour/activity will have a maximum of 6 travelers
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Cancellation Policy
You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.
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4.9
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Annelies_D, Apr 2026
We really enjoyed our tour through the fish market. Our guide was lovely and shared lots of information about Japanese food and culture.
Our sushi making class was a wonderful way to start our journey through Tokyo. We learned so much about the importance of technique, process, and traditions. It was fun and interactive for our entire family.
Response from Host, Apr 2026
Thank you for writing review for us. We are glad you had good time with us and hope our tour will be unforgettable memory of your Tokyo visit.
Christeena_S, Nov 2025
Walking through Tsukiji Market with Miho was such a wonderful experience.
She shared so much information about the market, the different vendors, and what foods are worth trying — it really brought the whole place to life.
Hiroko was our amazing instructor for the sushi-making class. She was patient, encouraging, and gave us great tips on preparing miso soup and seasoning the rice properly. I especially loved learning how to make the Japanese egg omelette, but the highlight was definitely mastering a sushi roll!
I highly recommend this experience — it’s a fantastic way to learn from locals and get hands-on with authentic Japanese cooking.
Response from Host, Nov 2025
Many thanks for your sweet review!!
We hope your experience will be a good memory. Hope to see you again!
Tim_L, Apr 2025
This is my 2nd time doing this course. I did it by myself 18 months ago and enjoyed it so much I wanted to experience it with my family. The combination of the fish market tour and the sushi making course is perfect.
Response from Host, Apr 2025
We are very happy you had a great time during our tour! thank you so much!
kjostroski, Jan 2025
We did this on Christmas night. It was so funny! The wrestlers are such personalities. We were with our adult kids but there were younger kids in the room. Everyone was laughing. The food was great!
Response from Host, Jan 2025
Thank you for writing review for us. We are glad you had good time with us and hope our tour will be unforgettable memory of your Tokyo visit.
Hillarie_B, Jan 2025
Enjoyed the tour of the fish market and loved sampling food in the market. We liked learning to make sushi
Response from Host, Jan 2025
Many thanks for your sweet review!!
We hope your experience will be a good memory. Hope to see you again!
Alex_T, Oct 2024
We had a group of six. The tour guide was very polite and so was the cooking instructor. Overall I do not feel like I got enough value out of the tour for the price. My wife and I walked around the market before the tour which felt just as enjoyable as the tour itself. With six people it was hard to gather around the tour guide in the crowded market at times to hear what she was saying. Her insights/history were interesting but I don't feel like I needed a guide for the market personally as I find just looking at the different foods interesting. I would have liked to only have a cooking class. The cooking class was a bit disappointing as well. When making the tomago (egg) we split into 2 groups of 3 people and shared the cooking process. I expected for us to cook everything individually, not to have to share. When it came to the sushi we each made our own. There was not enough space on the cooking counter for myself however as the six of us were in a line along the counter. I didn't have full space like everyone else as there was a burner and hot plate in front of me. It was very cramped. I'm very surprised at my experience because it did not align with the high rated reviews. I am not a picky person and typically enjoy most things I do but I am surprised at what my experience was for over $150 per person. The best part of the experience was connecting with the other people in our tour group. We hung around after and had great conversations.
Response from Host, Nov 2024
Thank you for joining our tour and writing review for us. Please take our sincere apologies for not be able to fulfill your expectation.
We really appreciate your opinion and will make sure to improve our product upon your words such as include more hands-on experience when you cook with an instructor. Thank you for joining our tour this time again and we hope to see you again when you will be back in Tokyo.
Kimberly_B, Aug 2024
Our tour guides at the market were so warm and professional! We enjoyed our time with them very much. We loved the cooking lessons; we felt our instructor was awesome, kind, professional and knowledgeable. We would go back and HIGHLY recommend!
Response from Host, Aug 2024
Thank you for writing review for us. We are glad you had good time with us and hope our tour will be unforgettable memory of your Tokyo visit.
Susan_H, Jun 2024
The fish market was definitely worth a visit. Our guide showed us her favorite spots, and we wish we had eaten less breakfast so we could enjoy more samples there. We had some extra time so she showed us a nearby shrine as well. Then onto the cooking school just near the Imperial Palace. The class was well organized, and we made the rolled omelette in addition to sushi and miso soup, and then had a chance to enjoy what we had made. Tip: go early and visit the temple which serves as a meeting point for the tour, its very unique.
Response from Host, Jul 2024
We are very happy you had a great time during our tour! thank you so much!
Adam_O, Jun 2024
This tour is lots of fun. It starts with a walking tour of the old fish market, which is a great experience. Then you make sushi guides by professional chefs. My only wish is that the kitchen was a little closer to the old fish market. Well worth it.
Response from Host, Jul 2024
Thank you for writing review for us. We are glad you had good time with us and hope our tour will be unforgettable memory of your Tokyo visit.
jennifer_b, Mar 2024
What a wonder time. Akiko was a wonderful tour guide, and sushi teacher was very patient with us. We were with only one other couple, and it was perfect. Walked the market, learned a lot and tasted some great local flavors. The class also had a few great surprises, including salmon roe and scallops as specials to the dish. Thank you ABC Cooking for bringing the experience to life!
Response from Host, Mar 2024
Thank you for writing review for us.
We are glad you had a good time with us and hope our
tour will be unforgettable memory of your Tokyo visit.
Sean_B, Nov 2023
First, the tour of Tsukiji was great! I thought I had a good idea of it when I had gone through solo, but being there with Akiko made a world of difference, if for no other reason than she knew where the samples were.
The cooking lesson with Mazumi was equally great, we learned how to make sushi rice, miso stock, and two types of sushi. Then it was topped off with Hokkaido scallops and clams and sake.
Response from Host, Nov 2023
Many thanks for such a sweet review!!
We hope your experience will be a good memory. Hope you to have a wonderful trip!
Tim_L, Nov 2023
Highly recommend this tour. This is the best way to experience the market as I've been there by myself and it was overwhelming but with the guide you get to experience do much more with lots of free samples. The cooking course was excellent as well, with a real hands on experience.
Response from Host, Nov 2023
We’re really grateful and appreciate you taking the time to share your rating with us. So
glad to hear that you had a great time!
Thank you and have a wonderful trip!
Shelley_E, Nov 2023
We enjoyed walking through Tsukiji outer market with our guide, Akiko. She answered our questions and pointed out highlights. We especially enjoyed learning to make miso soup and sushi. The cooking school was clean and organized. I always wanted to learn how to make tamago (rolled egg)! Miwako was our teacher. She was very organized, patient and encouraging. It was an enjoyable and interesting experience!
Response from Host, Nov 2023
Thank you for taking the time to share you experience with us, even after a month!
We very much appreciate it. We’re so happy to hear that you had a great experience with us.
Please take care and have a wonderful days!
Hope you to come back to Japan anytime!
Catja_F, Oct 2023
This experience was okay, rather less than I expected. First we walked through the market and tried a few dried soy beans. Afterwards we took the bus to the cooking center where we made very basic sushi (like a maki roll and nigiri and egg omelette).
I would have wished for more information about the market, maybe try some traditional sashimi or even shop for the sushi we made. Throughout the sushi class I was also hoping for some more information about the sushi traditions in Japan, however both our hosts English language skills were very limited. The hosts were very friendly.
If you have never made sushi at home, this might be a good class for you, however if you have some knowledge already you’ll probably be bored.
I highly recommend going to the Tsuski market by yourself in the morning before the tour starts to have a better experience of the food offered there.
Response from Host, Oct 2023
Thank you for joining our tour and writing review for us. Please take our sincere apologies for not be able to fulfill your expectation.
We really appreciate your opinion and will make sure to improve our product upon your words such as include more hands-on experience when you cook with an instructor. Thank you for joining our tour this time again.
Grant_R, Sep 2023
Fantastic trip.... and guide was very good and friendly. Loved the sushi making class.. very well organised knowledgeable.
Response from Host, Oct 2023
We are very happy you had a great time during our tour! thank you so much!
Thank you for the review!
Kimberly_S, Sep 2023
Shitomi was a great guide. Her English was great, and she was funny and informative. We had a fun time exploring the market and tasting different foods, and we loved learning to make several traditional Japanese dishes at the cooking studio.
Response from Host, Sep 2023
Many thanks for your sweet review!! in details!! We hope your experience will be a fantastic memory. Truly to hope to see you again!
Have a safe and memorable trip!
Christina_S, Aug 2023
We had the most wonderful experience! Our guides and cooking instructor were so friendly and knowledgeable. My son is excited about making sushi for friends as soon as we get home. Thank you very much!
Response from Host, Aug 2023
Thank you for writing review for us. We are glad you had a good time with us and hope our tour will be unforgettable memory of your Tokyo visit. Thank you, too!
Debbie_R, Aug 2023
We thoroughly enjoyed our Tour and Class! Nobu was a wonderful and gracious guide. She helped us to efficiently explore Tsukiji Outer Market, pointing out some of her favorites, and encouraging us to stop and try the foods that appealed to us. We tried tamagoyaki (japanese omelet on a stick), red bean mochi with strawberries, dried scallops, and more.
Then we walked through a luxury shopping district in/near Ginza, and made our way to the ABC Cooking Studio. It was spacious, bright, and clean. Nobu assisted our cooking instructor, Miwa, as our sushi lesson got underway. Both women were very friendly and helpful. We made stock, Japanese omelet (w/o the stick), and several kinds of rolled sushi. It was a fun, hands-on experience, that ended with a chance to sit and enjoy all of the food that we learned to make. I can't wait to try all of the recipes again at home!
I'd definitely recommend this experience!
Response from Host, Aug 2023
Many thanks for your sweet review!! in details!!
We hope your experience will be a fantastic memory. We are excited to imagine that you retry all the recipes at your home! Truly to hope to see you again!
Roiy_Z, Aug 2023
Great experience. The local guide was great and the food instructor was also very knowledgeable. Highly recommended
Response from Host, Aug 2023
Hi Roiy, thank you for your heart-warming message! We had a great time with you too and so happy that you enjoyed our tour!
DANIEL_S, May 2023
What a wonderful day we had! The walk through the market was amazing despite the drizzle, we got to see all the incredible ingredients, people, food! Then we rode the bus to the cooking school which was incredible, so professional looking! We made stock and sushi and had the best time while doing them. Highly recommend this experience
Response from Host, May 2023
Thank you for writing review for us. We are glad you had good time with us and hope our tour will be unforgettable memory of your Tokyo visit.
Esha_M, Apr 2023
We enjoyed the fish market tour but hoped that we would be buying the items we would later use for the cooking class. For the price, I dont think we made enough food
Response from Host, Apr 2023
Thank you for taking part in our tour. We are very sorry that we could not meet your expectations. We appreciate your valuable feedback and will use it in our future operations.
Joanne_E, Apr 2023
It was great being guided around the market so we could ask what all the things are to try. Yes, you could do the market on your own but having someone to translate made it so much easier.
Sushi making was excellent fun, and is something we'll definitely be trying at home.
Response from Host, Apr 2023
Thank you for joining us this time! It was our pleasure to have you join us and your review means so much to us. Thank you again and have a wonderful rest of your stay in Japan.
Cooper_d, Jan 2023
Our Tour guide Akiko was very nice and knowledgeable about Japan. She was joyful and friendly person that made the experience great! Our teacher for the class was great also!
Response from Host, Jan 2023
Many thanks for your sweet review!!
We hope your experience will be a good memory. Hope to see you again!
Craig_M, Nov 2022
We had a great time, both our guide and cooking instructor were very knowledgeable, informative and helpful. I enjoyed the actual cooking and making the sushi the most so I could maybe try it at home.
Response from Host, Nov 2022
We are very happy you had a great time during our tour! thank you so much!
Christina_S, Jan 2020
We were a group of two families (four adults, two kids and two teens) traveling together in Tokyo. Everyone had a wonderful time on this half-day tour! It was enough to get a flavor of the local market/culture without losing the interest of the kids and teens (and husbands).
We met Lucy at Tsukiji Hongan-ji. There was a little bit of a misunderstanding when we booked the tour. We thought that since the two families separately booked the same tour at the same time that we would be on the same tour, which is not the case (have one person book everyone on the same purchase to ensure that you're with the same group or contact the tour operator immediately afterwards and ask if they can put your reservations together in the same group). Despite our mistake, Lucy and the other guide made same quick phone calls and were able to get all of us together with the same guide.
Lucy navigated us through the fish market with ease. She took us to some vendors of interest, but also let us stop at whichever vendors caught our eye. She was very patient with us. We never felt rushed, but she also kept things moving along. She did a great job of explaining to us the different foods/ingredients that we were seeing and also answering any questions about what we were seeing and being offered to try. None of us spoke Japanese. Lucy's English was great and she was very helpful translating for us.
Afterwards, Lucy took us on a short bus ride over to the cooking studio. Masayo was the primary instructor with Lucy's assisting. We learned how to make Tomago, nigiri sushi, a rolled sushi and miso. Masayo explained each step very clearly in English. Our kids had a great time learning how to make sushi and they all ate everything that they made. Our daughter came home and asked if we could purchase a "Tomago pan" so she could make Tomago at home.
Everyone in our group said they would recommend this tour to their friends.
Response from Host, Jan 2020
Many thanks for your review!! We apologize not being able to get your two groups together originally. We try to be flexible as much as possible for our guests, so we are glad that this time turned out to be OK.
We hope your experience will be a good memory of Japan.
Hermine_v_Stetten, Oct 2019
First part was a tour over the outer fishmarket with our awesome guide yoko who showed and explained us everything.
We got a lot of information about traditional japanese food and could try everything (e.g. little dried crabs tasting like spicy crackers).
After the tour we visited a modern equipped cooking school to learn to prepare a typical japanese meal.
We had great fun and learned a lot with our enchanting chef Hiromi.
Our conclusion: all thumbs up!!
Response from Host, Oct 2019
We are very happy you had a great time during our tour! thank you so much!
Bushra Z, Oct 2019
Both the guide and our teacher were so good and informative. They took their time to explain all things and answered all our questions. If there's only one guided tour you do, do this one!
Response from Host, Oct 2019
We are very happy you had a great time during our tour! thank you so much!
Peter_H, Sep 2019
Great tour and tour guide! The ABC Japanese cooking school was wonderful and we made a complete sushi dinner with soup sashimi and sushi rolls we eat it all and cooked it all it was a ball
Response from Host, Oct 2019
Thank you for writing review for us. We are glad you had good time with us and hope our tour will be unforgettable memory of your Tokyo visit.
priscillafrancis723, Aug 2019
Did this tour with 5 other friends and it was amazing. The fish tour of the market was interesting and we learned about the local food and customs. We took the bus to the cooking studio where we made sushi rolls and an an egg omelette. We ate and tasted sake. Everything was wonderful.
Response from Host, Aug 2019
Thank you for writing review for us！！We are glad you had good time with us and hope our tour will be unforgettable memory of your Tokyo visit.
Max F, Jun 2019
This tour was awesome! Great sights in the outer market and surrounding areas. Was nice to stop and enjoy the local fare too. Our tour leader was knowledgeable and fun. The cooking lesson at the end was also delightful and informative, plus delicious once all was done!
Response from Host, Jun 2019
We are so glad to hear that you liked our tour! Thank you so much for leaving warm review for us. We hope this tour and lesson will be unforgettable memories for you. Thank you:)
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