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Tsukiji, Chūō — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Tsukiji is a district of Chūō, Tokyo, raised on filled ground, and the fish market that carried its name traded here until 2018.
About Tsukiji
Where to stay in Tsukiji
Where you base yourself shapes the visit — here's the character of each area.
Rooms cluster toward Ginza. Anyone booking Tsukiji is choosing the reclaimed grid between the Sumida River and Ginza, a short walk from the Kabukiza Gallery and a bridge crossing from Kachidoki, with Shimbashi Station covering wider rail. The outer market lanes still open early, so the morning noise suits anyone who wanted to be up for it anyway. Chūō keeps the rest close.
About Tsukiji
What are the main landmarks in Tsukiji?
Tsukiji's sightseeing runs through its museums. The National Film Archive of Japan and the Police Museum stand among the Chūō blocks around Tsukiji, with the Mitsuo Aida Museum, the Ad Museum Tokyo, and the Panasonic Shiodome Museum of Art also within reach. Kabukiza Gallery covers the theatre side, and the Kachidoki hashi no shiryōkan explains the bridge across the Sumida River.
The Tsukuda Machikado Museum keeps neighbourhood material.
What is the history of Tsukiji?
The name means reclaimed land. Crews filled this stretch of Tokyo Bay beside the Sumida River during the 18th century, in the Edo period, and the made ground has carried the district ever since. Tsukiji fish market opened in 1935.
It closed in 2018, when trading moved out to Toyosu Market, leaving the outer lanes and their shops behind.
Where is Tsukiji?
Tsukiji is flat, low ground beside the Sumida River, made by filling part of Tokyo Bay and built over solidly within Chūō.
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Updated September 2026