Ota Market — Local services in Tokyo

This whole sales market is not for general tourists. It's a busy market with lots of vehicles, large & small, running around quickly. If you do come here, take the overpass walkway from the front gate, & walk in thru the upper level where there is a brief description of this market in 4 languages. Then follow the sign written in Japanese, 見學者..., & see the market in operation from the top floor walkway. Don't come down to the ground level while you are inside of the market, except you are on the east wing where there are some restaurants/mom&pop shops located. If you walk on the ground floor, that will endanger yourself & the people who work here since you will be in the way of the small rushing cargo vehicles. The things to see would be the auction processes in the early morning, other than that what you will see will be some big warehouse with lots of vegetables/sea foods boxes on the floors with lots of small cargo...

Don’t go, unless you are a huge hotel chain, or a global importer, looking for 50 tons of Chilean lemons, or 10 containers of watermelon. If you hope to find small competing stalls offering beautiful and perfectly sun-ripened $200 Japanese melons, or magnificent $100 grapes, this 20 acre industrial mega-campus of wholesalers is...

Great place for low cost fish and meat purchases. Open every day. Although you need to be early while the fish stands close...