Where can I leave my suitcase at Tsukiji Outer Market?

At the Plat Tsukiji information centre, 4-16-2 Tsukiji - coin lockers in three sizes in two locations inside the same building, the only suitcase-capable lockers in the market, and the official English page admits the suitcase units are limited in number. The window is 6:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. with no after-hours access: retrieve at 16:05 and you are locked out until the next morning. Bring 100-yen coins; no price list is published. The building also took six ad-hoc closure days in August 2026 - the 5th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 19th and 26th - announced only on the Japanese page.

Where are the toilets at Tsukiji, and are any wheelchair-accessible?

Use the station toilet first - the market's own shoppers' guide says queueing for one inside is wasted time, and the Toei Oedo Line Tsukijishijo A1 exit has both a standard and a wheelchair-accessible toilet at the exit itself. There are four accessible toilets in walking distance in total: the A1 exit, the Plat Tsukiji building, and the two Tsukiji Uogashi buildings (Odawarabashi and Kaikobashi, both 1F). The market's English page says there is only one; the Japanese FAQ and the official map both say otherwise.

Is Tsukiji wheelchair or stroller accessible?

Flat, but not accessible in any useful sense at busy hours. There are no steps, but lanes narrow to about 1.5 metres, surfaces are wet from melting ice, turret trucks and delivery bicycles move through, and many shops of about 16.5 square metres cannot be entered at all. The market's own FAQ answers 'possible, but be careful'. If accessibility decides it, go to Toyosu instead: step-free from the Shijo-mae gate, indoors, lifts throughout, barrier-free toilets - at the cost of about 3 km of corridor, no lockers, no stroller parking, and benches you may sit on but not eat on. Strollers at Tsukiji: park at Plat Tsukiji for 500 yen and carry the child.

Do I need cash at Tsukiji fish market?

Bring cash and a card. Of the 333 shops on the market's own directory, only 71 publish a payment policy at all; of those, 58 take credit cards, 7 are cash-only and 3 refuse cash entirely. One shop takes cards only above 5,000 yen. Silence is missing data, not a cash-only policy. Carry about 10,000 yen per person in 1,000-yen notes and 100-yen coins - small stalls want small money - and expect knife shops and sit-down restaurants to take cards.

Is there an ATM or money exchange at Tsukiji?

Yes, both, in the Plat Tsukiji building at 4-16-2 - despite the market's own English shopping page still saying there is no money exchange in the market. A Seven Bank ATM takes foreign-issued cards (Visa, Mastercard, UnionPay, Amex, JCB, Discover, Diners; up to 100,000 yen per withdrawal), and a 12-currency exchange machine converts foreign notes into yen. Neither machine's own access hours are published, so treat them as a backstop, not a plan - and decline the ATM's offer to bill you in your home currency; choosing yen is almost always cheaper.

Is it safe to eat raw fish at Tsukiji?

Yes, with informed caveats. The real risk is anisakis, a parasitic larva that Japan's health ministry states is NOT killed by vinegar, salting, soy sauce or wasabi - only by freezing at minus 20 C for 24 hours or heating to 70 C. It caused 432 reported incidents in 2023, 330 in 2024 and 280 in 2025, with zero deaths in all three years; the illness is severe stomach pain within about 12 hours, treated by endoscopic removal. Practical rules: buy raw fish last, eat it that morning, ask the shop for ice or buy a cool bag at Plat Tsukiji in summer, and never plan to send it to your hotel - the market's delivery service handles ambient-temperature goods only.

What should I do if there is an earthquake while I am at the market?

Protect yourself first, then gather information, then move - and do not immediately start walking to your hotel; Tokyo's standing instruction is to avoid a simultaneous mass walk home. If trains stop, stranded visitors use temporary stay facilities, and Tsukiji Hongan-ji at 3-15-1 is officially designated as one, along with five Tsukiji hotels. They open only after building safety checks and at the Metropolitan Government's request, so wait for announcements. Tokyo's KitaCon DX registration system has run in English, Chinese and Korean since 31 March 2026, and the free Safety tips app pushes earthquake and heat alerts in 15 languages.

Where is the nearest hospital to Tsukiji?

St. Luke's International Hospital at 9-1 Akashi-cho, a 12-15 minute walk north-east - one of Tokyo's 28 tertiary emergency centres, open around the clock; it accepted 11,472 ambulances in 2025. The big hospital right next to the market, the National Cancer Center, is a cancer referral centre with no walk-in ER - do not go there injured. In an emergency dial 119 (the ambulance is free); if unsure whether it is an emergency, call #7119, staffed 24 hours. St. Luke's accepts payment guarantees only from six named assistance companies, never directly from an overseas insurer - carry your insurer's assistance-company phone number.

Should I tip or haggle at Tsukiji?

Neither. Japan's national tourism organisation states tipping is not customary in restaurants, cafes, taxis or hotels, and at a market stall leaving coins will likely get you chased down the lane to return them. Haggling is written out of the market's own code of manners: products are sold at wholesale prices and bargaining is not customary at Tsukiji. What you can ask for instead - free knife engraving, a final hand edge, a shaving demonstration - is worth more than the discount you will not get.

Practical · Plat Tsukiji ぷらっと築地 · verified 2 August 2026

The practical Tsukiji: lockers, toilets, money, safety — and one address that solves most of it.

Almost every practical problem at Tsukiji resolves to one building at 4-16-2 — and it locks your suitcase in at 16:00 sharp. This page is the layer no English guide maps: the four accessible toilets (one exists in no text form anywhere), a 333-shop payment measurement, what actually kills the parasite in raw fish, and where you go when something breaks — a child lost, a wallet lifted, a quake, a 35 °C afternoon.

Verified 2 Aug 2026 · every rule below cites an official Japanese source · we earn a commission on tour bookings — how we pick them

16:00

Locker deadline

¥500

Stroller drop

Accessible WCs

333

Shops measured

Anisakis deaths

Aug closures

TL;DR

One building does everything: Plat Tsukiji at 4-16-2 has the market's only suitcase lockers, stroller storage (¥500), Wi-Fi, ATM, currency exchange, smoking area and an accessible toilet. It runs three different clocks and your bag must be out by 16:00 — details in chapter 02.
Use the station toilet first. That's the market's own advice — and the Ōedo Line A1 exit has an accessible toilet right at the exit, one of four in the district (the official English page claims one).
Cash-first, not cash-only. We crawled all 333 shops on the official directory: 58 publish card acceptance, 7 are cash-only, 3 refuse cash. Carry ¥10,000 in small notes plus a card — the numbers.
Wasabi does not kill the parasite. Japan's health ministry says so in terms. Buy raw fish last, eat it that morning — chapter 05.
If things go wrong: 119 for an ambulance (it's free), St. Luke's is the ER (the cancer hospital next to the market is not), and Tsukiji Hongan-ji is an official earthquake refuge — chapter 06.

The one building: Plat Tsukiji, 4-16-2

The official map calls the building Senjagaku-tō 千社額棟; the information centre inside it is Plat Tsukiji ぷらっと築地. It sits on Namiyoke-dōri at the southern edge of the lanes, one minute from the Ōedo Line's Tsukijishijō A1 exit, five from the Hibiya Line's Tsukiji station. Everything below is in this single building.

The anchor facility

Lockers — the only suitcase-capable ones in the market

Three sizes, two locker banks inside the same building. First come, first served, no reservations, and the official English page concedes suitcase units are “limited in number”. Drop between 06:00 and 08:00; photograph your locker bank — the two look alike. No price list is published: bring ¥100 coins.

The hard rule

16:00

luggage wall — no after-hours access, ever. Retrieve at 16:05 and you wait until tomorrow.

Strollers

¥500

per stroller, safekeeping at the counter — the market's manner #3, and the only stroller drop in the whole Tsukiji–Toyosu story.

Money corner

Seven Bank ATM + exchange machine

The ATM takes foreign cards (Visa, Mastercard, UnionPay, Amex, JCB, Discover, Diners); the machine converts 12 currencies of notes into yen. Neither publishes its own access hours.

Summer kit

Ice, coolant packs & cool bags — sold here

The market's FAQ confirms Plat Tsukiji sells all three (no price published). Ask the shop you bought fish from for ice first.

Also inside

Wi-Fi · accessible toilet · the only smoking area

Free Wi-Fi (effectively nowhere else in the lanes), an accessible toilet, and the market's single designated smoking area — air-conditioned; Chuo City bans smoking on the street outright.

Three clocks in one building

The commonest Plat Tsukiji mistake is assuming the building runs on one schedule. It runs on three — and a fourth if you count the tax-refund desk's operator:

Service	Weekdays & Saturday	Sun / holidays / market closure days
Lounge & coin lockers	06:00–16:00	07:00–16:00
Information counter (English-speaking staff)	08:00–14:00	10:00–14:00
Tax-refund counter	10:00–15:00	10:00–15:00

All closed over the year-end and New Year period. The counter shuts at 14:00 but your locker stays reachable until 16:00 — and the ATM and exchange machine sit between those clocks with no published hours of their own. Treat 06:00–16:00 as the optimistic case and 10:00–15:00 as the pessimistic one, and never plan a 05:30 cash withdrawal here.

The Japanese-only closure notice. The Japanese Plat Tsukiji page lists six ad-hoc closure days for August 2026 — 5, 14, 15, 16, 19 and 26 August — under a notice the English version of the same page simply does not carry. On those days: no counter, no tax refund, no stroller storage and, in all likelihood, no locker access. The 14–16 August block collides with Obon, when much of the market is shut anyway. If your date is on that list, use station lockers and don't route through this building at all. Verified: 2 August 2026

“There is no money exchange counter inside the Market”

The market's own English page says this — and its own facility page contradicts it. A Seven Bank ATM and a 12-currency exchange machine sit inside Plat Tsukiji, per the council's current page in both languages. Defensible on a technicality (a machine is not a counter); misleading in effect. The advice half survives: bring yen anyway.

“Plat Tsukiji is open every day — you can always drop your bags”

It closes for New Year and takes ad-hoc holidays announced only in Japanese — six of them in August 2026 alone. Check the Japanese page (tsukiji.or.jp/plattsukiji) or ask your hotel to, before building a luggage plan on it.

Toilets & accessibility — the map nobody publishes in English

The market's English page answers “Are there any toilets for the handicapped?” with “There is one”. The Japanese FAQ and the official map PDF (edition 2025.08.31) say otherwise: four accessible toilets sit within walking distance — and the most useful one appears in no text form on any page. We read it off the map itself.

Accessible toilet	Where	Why it matters
Ōedo Line Tsukijishijō, exit A1	At the exit itself, before the lanes	The one to use first — the market's own advice is to go before you enter; this makes it step-free routing, not just a tip
Plat Tsukiji / Senjagaku-tō	4-16-2, beside the lockers	The only one the English page admits exists
Tsukiji Uogashi, Odawarabashi-tō 1F	6-26-1, north end, by the lift and AED	Pairs with the 3F food court — the seated, indoor rest stop
Tsukiji Uogashi, Kaikobashi-tō 1F	6-27-1, south-east end	Both Uogashi blocks have lifts and a covered connecting walkway

Standard toilets are additionally marked at Ichibabashi Park, the Uogashi 3F food court, beside the Yamato Transport counter on Namiyoke-dōri, and on Harumi-dōri beside the police box. Tsukiji Hongan-ji has toilets and accessible toilets in all three of its buildings. Namiyoke Inari Shrine has none.

The honest wheelchair & stroller answer

Tsukiji · flat but…

Stepless, and functionally impassable at peak

No steps anywhere in the lanes — then the good news ends. Lanes narrow to ~1.5 m, surfaces run wet from melting ice, turret trucks and delivery bicycles move through, and shops of ~16.5 m² cannot be entered on wheels at all. The market's own FAQ: possible, but beware the congestion and vehicle traffic. On a Saturday 11:00–13:30, “possible” stops being true in practice.

Toyosu · accessible, with a tax

Step-free and lift-served — but benchless in effect

Step-free from the Shijō-mae gate, indoors, climate-controlled, barrier-free toilets throughout. The tax: over 3 km of corridor on the full circuit, no lockers, no stroller parking anywhere inside — and eating in the corridors is prohibited including on the benches. With a hungry small child you must reach a restaurant floor or the rooftop lawn (5:00–23:00, open even on closed days).

Strollers

Park it, carry the child

¥500 at Plat Tsukiji — the only stroller drop anywhere in the story. Neither Uogashi building, nor Toyosu, nor Senkyaku Banrai stores them. A baby carrier beats wheels in these lanes.

Wheelchair loan

Senkyaku Banrai only — ask ahead

The only wheelchair loan in the district, stock limited, advance request asked. It also has the nursing rooms and ostomate-equipped toilets the market itself lacks.

The deliberate route for older or mobility-limited visitors: Ōedo A1 (step-free, toilet at the exit) → Plat Tsukiji (drop bag) → 45 minutes in the lanes → the Tsukiji Uogashi lift to the 3F food court (seats, toilets) → Tsukiji Hongan-ji (flat forecourt, chair seating, open 6:00–16:00 every day). That route has a seat and a toilet at every stage; the lanes alone have neither. Nursing rooms: none advertised in the lanes — the nearest are at Hongan-ji's information centre and, per Chuo City's register, the Tsukiji Children's Hall (7-9-17) and the National Cancer Center (5-1-1).

Money: what we measured, not what guides assume

“Tsukiji is cash only” is now checkable rather than guessable. On 2 August 2026 we crawled every shop detail page on the market's own English directory — 333 unique shops across all 40 categories — and read the payment row on each:

Of 333 shops on the official directory	Count
Publish any payment policy at all	71 (21.3%)
— accept credit cards	58
— accept smartphone payment	25
— accept transport IC (Suica/PASMO)	21
— cash only	7
— will not take cash	3
— card minimum (¥5,000, published in Japanese only)	1
Publish nothing (silence ≠ cash-only)	262

The pattern by category: knife and kitchenware shops have the best coverage (Sugimoto Hamono and Tsukiji Hitachiya take all four methods), sit-down restaurants are good, dried goods are mixed, and small grill stalls plus the Uogashi ground floor are the cash-heavy end. The reverse trap is real too: three shops refuse cash outright. The instruction: carry about ¥10,000 per person in ¥1,000 notes and ¥100 coins — ¥10,000–15,000 if a Toyosu sushi counter is in the plan, because the famous ones are cash-only in a market with no visitor ATM — plus a card. Draw the cash before you arrive; the Plat Tsukiji ATM is the backstop, not the plan.

The Seven Bank fee truth. The widely quoted ¥110 is Seven Bank's out-of-hours charge to its own Japanese account holders. For a foreign card the bank publishes no fee at all (“varies by card brand”) — your cost is your issuing bank's fee plus its FX margin. Limits: ¥100,000 per withdrawal, ¥30,000 if the machine reads a magnetic stripe. When the screen offers to bill you in your home currency, decline — that's Dynamic Currency Conversion; choosing yen is almost always cheaper.
Why some prices show without tax. Japan has required tax-inclusive display to consumers since April 2021 — but the obligation does not apply to business-to-business trade, and Tsukiji is legally a wholesale district. That's why one knife shop quotes tax-excluded and its neighbour tax-included. If a number looks suspiciously round, ask whether it's 税込 (incl.) or 税抜 (excl.).
8% vs 10% on the same snack. Takeaway food carries the reduced 8% rate; eating at any seating the shop provides is “dining out” at 10%. The rate is fixed by what you say you'll do when you order. Since the market asks you to eat in front of the shop rather than walking, this split comes up here more than almost anywhere in Japan.
Tipping: no. Haggling: never. JNTO's guidance is that tipping is not customary; at a stall, leaving coins gets you chased down the lane. Bargaining is written out of the market's own eight manners — wholesale prices, no negotiation. Ask instead for the things that are freely given: knife engraving, a final hand edge, a shaving demonstration.
Tax-free shopping has its own machinery (a shared 26-shop refund counter in the Plat Tsukiji building, 10:00–15:00, same-day with goods in hand) and a hard regime change on 1 November 2026 — the full mechanics live on the knives & shopping page.

“Tsukiji is cash only — no one takes cards”

58 of the 71 shops that publish a policy take cards — every knife shop with a published row, the sushi chains, most sit-down restaurants. Cash is the safe default, not the only option. The council's own wording: “it depends on each shop … please ask.”

“No payment method listed = cash only”

262 of 333 shops list nothing. Silence is missing data — the council adds payment rows over time, and several silent shops are known to take cards. Don't convert absence into a policy.

Raw-fish safety, by ministry numbers

“Wasabi kills the parasites — that's why the Japanese eat it with sashimi”

The health ministry states the opposite, verbatim: treatment with ordinary vinegar, salting, soy sauce or wasabi does not kill anisakis larvae. Only freezing at −20 °C for 24+ hours, or heating to 70 °C (60 °C for one minute), does.

“Anisakis is dangerous — you could die”

Intensely painful, self-limiting, zero recorded deaths in the national statistics for 2023, 2024 and 2025. Severe stomach pain within ~12 hours, treated by endoscopic removal. The one genuinely dangerous variant is allergic — anisakis can trigger hives or anaphylaxis, which needs emergency care.

Scale, from the ministry's own annual tables: 432 reported incidents in 2023, 330 in 2024, 280 in 2025 — the most-reported food-poisoning cause by incident count in 2023 and 2024, though norovirus overtook it in 2025 (and affects vastly more people per incident). The larva is 2–3 cm long, like a slightly thick white thread, and migrates from the viscera into the muscle after the fish dies — which is why time since landing matters, and why the working rules are:

Buy raw fish last, and only if you're eating it that morning or shipping it chilled from the shop's own counter. The market's hands-free hotel delivery is ambient-temperature only — you cannot send sashimi to your hotel.
In summer, close the cold chain: ask the shop for ice or a coolant pack; Plat Tsukiji sells ice, coolant packs and cool bags (no price published). Do not walk a bag of sashimi through unshaded 31 °C lanes for two hours.
If severe stomach pain follows raw seafood, the ministry's instruction is to seek medical care promptly — see chapter 06.

Allergies: the label that isn't there

Japan's allergen-labelling law covers packaged processed foods only — a grill stall or tamagoyaki counter has no legal label at all. As of 1 April 2026 the mandatory list is nine items: shrimp, crab, walnut, wheat, buckwheat, egg, milk, peanut and — newly — cashew nut, with a transition period to March 2028, so packets showing eight are still legal. Carry a printed Japanese allergy card. Documented in-market options: enikaitamochi Tsukiji (allergen-free menu, three gluten-free mochi), Tsukiji Soratsuki (allergen labelling), OIDEYA (condiments on the side). For coeliac disease or an anaphylaxis history, a private guided food tour is the one case where the fee is genuinely earned — shared fryers and soy glazes are everywhere — and an indoor sushi class solves the problem structurally: a room, a menu you control, no guessing at a counter.

Emergencies: the numbers, the hospital, the quake, the heat

Number	What it is	Hours
119	Fire & ambulance — the ambulance ride is free	24h
110	Police	24h
#7119	“Is this an emergency?” consultation — doctors, nurses, ex-ambulance crew	24h
050-3816-2787	Japan Visitor Hotline (JNTO) — EN/ZH/KO	24h, 365 days
03-5285-8181	Tokyo foreign-language medical referral — EN/ZH/KO/TH/ES	9:00–20:00 daily

The hospital that counts is not the one next to the market. The big hospital on the map beside the lanes is the National Cancer Center — a referral centre with no walk-in ER. The emergency door for this district is St. Luke's International Hospital (9-1 Akashi-chō, 12–15 minutes' walk north-east), one of Tokyo's 28 tertiary emergency centres, running a stated policy of turning away as few patients as possible; it accepted 11,472 ambulances in 2025. Two visitor-specific traps: its ordinary clinics are appointment-only, so the ER is effectively the only walk-in door; and it accepts payment guarantees only from six named assistance companies (Emergency Assistance Japan, International SOS, MS&AD Grand Assistance, INTAC, Europ Assistance, Euro-Center Sydney) — never directly from an overseas insurer. Carry your insurer's assistance-company phone number, not your policy certificate. Major hospitals take cards; clinics are generally cash-only.

“There's a police box inside the market at Tsukiji 5-2-1”

Suspended since the wholesale market moved — yet commercial map apps still list it with opening hours. Do not route a lost child there. The real answers: 110 in an emergency; Tsukiji Police Station at 1-6-1 (03-3543-0110); and a staffed police box marked on Harumi-dōri at the market's north-east edge.

“After a quake, head to the nearest evacuation shelter”

Those are for residents. Stranded visitors use temporary stay facilities — Tsukiji Hongan-ji is officially designated as one, with five Tsukiji hotels — and they open only after safety checks, at the city's request. Tokyo's standing instruction: don't all start walking home at once.

Do before you fly, not during the quake: install the free “Safety tips” app (Japan Tourism Agency; 15 languages; pushes earthquake early warnings and heat alerts, with offline evacuation flowcharts), and register with Tokyo's stranded-traveller system キタコンDX — in English, Chinese and Korean via web or LINE since 31 March 2026.

Heat is the August emergency. Japan's national heat alert 熱中症警戒アラート triggers when forecast WBGT reaches 33 — announced ~17:00 the evening before and ~05:00 on the day — and Tokyo was under one on 2–3 August 2026 as this page was verified. National issuance has climbed every year on record: 613 alerts in FY2021, 1,749 in FY2025. The lanes are unshaded, largely seatless, and lined with hot grills. Free cool refuges: the refrigerated ground floor of Tsukiji Uogashi (genuinely cold — a relief in August, a shock in a t-shirt) and Hongan-ji's chair-seated main hall, open 6:00–16:00 every day of the year. AED coverage is unusually good: seven marked on the official map alone, plus four floors of them at Senkyaku Banrai.

The year-end protocol: pickpockets & lost children

Late December is the one period when the market's operator publishes a safety package rather than a shopping guide. Its year-end notice of 29 November 2025 carried five requests — come by train, lockers for big bags, small groups, watch for pickpockets, agree a meeting point — and two of them are specific enough to be worth keeping all year:

The pickpocket watches the moment you pay. The notice's own detail: put your wallet deep in your bag and close it properly immediately after paying — leaving it somewhere easy to reach “since I've got more shopping to do” is exactly what a pickpocket is waiting for. Wear a rucksack on your front. The market's FAQ adds that opportunistic bag-lifting rises with the crowds too.
“Every single year, somebody gets lost.” The notice's unsentimental wording. Agree a meeting place and time before you enter the lanes, especially with children or older relatives. If it happens: the Plat Tsukiji counter has English-speaking staff (but shuts at 14:00), the staffed police box is on Harumi-dōri at the north-east edge, and the number is 110 — not a walk to the suspended old market box that map apps still list.
Skip the roadway seating. An identically worded council notice (published November 2024 and again November 2025) warns that some shops set tables out on the carriageway, that repeated requests to stop have failed, and strongly recommends using shops with proper seating on their own premises instead. That is the district's own operator talking about its own tenants — take the hint.

For year-end timing itself — the 25–30 December peak week and the arrive-by-08:00 advice — see hours & calendars.

FAQ

Plat Tsukiji, 4-16-2 — the market's only suitcase-capable lockers, in two banks inside one building, window 06:00–16:00 with no after-hours access. Bring ¥100 coins (no tariff is published), go early, and check the six August 2026 closure dates in chapter 02 first.

Station first: the Ōedo A1 exit has standard and accessible toilets before you enter. Inside the district: Plat Tsukiji and both Tsukiji Uogashi buildings (1F) — four accessible toilets in all, despite the English page claiming one. Hongan-ji has them in all three buildings; Namiyoke Shrine has none.

Flat but honestly hard: 1.5 m lanes, wet surfaces, working vehicles, shops too small to enter. Toyosu is the genuinely accessible one (step-free, lifts, barrier-free toilets) at the cost of 3 km of corridor and no-eating benches. Strollers: park at Plat Tsukiji for ¥500 and use a carrier.

Yes — and a card. Of 333 shops on the official directory, 71 publish a policy: 58 take cards, 7 are cash-only, 3 refuse cash, 1 takes cards only above ¥5,000. Carry ~¥10,000 in small notes; more if a cash-only Toyosu sushi counter is planned — Toyosu has no visitor ATM.

Both, inside Plat Tsukiji — a Seven Bank ATM built for foreign cards (up to ¥100,000/withdrawal) and a 12-currency note-exchange machine — despite the market's own English page still saying otherwise. Their access hours are unpublished, so draw cash before you arrive and treat them as backstops. Decline the ATM's home-currency offer; choose yen.

Yes, informed: anisakis caused 432/330/280 reported incidents in 2023/24/25 with zero deaths, and vinegar, soy and wasabi do not kill it — only −20 °C freezing or 70 °C heat. Eat raw purchases the same morning, keep them iced in summer, and know the hotel-delivery service is ambient-only.

Protect yourself, gather information, then move — and don't march for your hotel; Tokyo asks stranded visitors to wait for temporary stay facilities to open. Tsukiji Hongan-ji is officially one. Register with Tokyo's multilingual キタコンDX system and install the Safety tips app before you travel.

St. Luke's International, 12–15 minutes' walk — a 24-hour tertiary ER. The National Cancer Center beside the market is not an ER. Dial 119 (free ambulance) or #7119 if unsure, and carry your insurer's assistance-company number — St. Luke's won't take a guarantee direct from an overseas insurer.

No and no. Tipping isn't customary anywhere in Japan and causes confusion at a stall; bargaining is explicitly written out of the market's own manners — wholesale prices, no negotiation. Ask for engraving, a final edge or a demonstration instead; those are freely given.

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