Tsukiji

The branch beside Tsukiji Hongwanji temple, a minute from Exit 1 of Tsukiji Station. It has 41 seats, and of the Sushizanmai restaurants in Tsukiji it stays open latest apart from the 24-hour main shop: the door closes at 22:30, with last orders at 22:00.

Bookings are taken on weekdays only, by phone or online. At weekends and on public holidays it is walk-in.

Good to know

• Bookings are taken on weekdays only. Weekends and public holidays are walk-in.
• Only 41 seats, so expect to wait at busy hours.
• Every seat is non-smoking.

The shop where Tsukiji Tamasushi began, founded in 1924 and still on the same corner two minutes from Tsukiji Station. There are 13 counter seats and 22 at tables, and the dining room is entirely non-smoking.

Dinner runs from 17:00 to 22:00 with last orders at 21:30. Note that a 5 percent service charge is added to anything ordered from 17:00, which the restaurant states on its own page. Lunch cannot be reserved; evening bookings are taken by phone.

Good to know

• A 5 percent service charge applies to orders placed from 17:00.
• Lunch cannot be reserved. Evening bookings are taken by phone.
• Closed over the New Year period, otherwise open every day.

A sushi house on the edge of the outer market, with 16 counter seats on the first floor and a further 10 counter seats and 8 table seats upstairs. Every seat is non-smoking.

The evening is short here: the door opens at 17:00, the last guests are seated at 19:30, and the shop closes at 20:30 with last orders at 20:00. It is closed on Wednesdays. Bookings are taken from 17:00, though the number of reservable seats is limited.

Good to know

• Closed on Wednesdays.
• The last guests are seated at 19:30, whatever day you come.
• Bookings are taken from 17:00, but only for a limited number of seats.
• There is no parking.

A sushi counter in the outer market that stays open to 23:00, with last orders at 22:30. Apart from the 24-hour Sushizanmai, no other sushi restaurant listed here for Tsukiji takes orders that late.

The shop says it works in the Edomae tradition and changes its fish with the season, and that its tamagoyaki comes two ways, the Edomae sponge-cake style and a dashi-rolled one. Seasonal single dishes are served alongside the sushi. It is closed on Mondays.

Good to know

• Closed on Mondays.
• Prices are not published, so ask when you order.
• Listed by the Tsukiji outer market shopping association; the shop has no site of its own.

A sushi house run by the third generation of Tonofuku Suisan, a seafood business the listing describes as eighty years old, together with the third generation of Aozora-zushi. It uses wild-caught fish.

On weekdays it breaks between lunch and dinner, but on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays it serves straight through from 11:00 to 22:00, which is unusual in Tsukiji. Closing days are irregular rather than fixed.

Good to know

• Closing days are irregular.
• Prices are not published, so ask when you order.
• Listed by the Tsukiji outer market shopping association; the shop has no site of its own.

An oyster ramen shop forty metres from Tsukiji Hongwanji temple, open from 06:00 until 05:00 the next morning with last orders at 04:45. Apart from the 24-hour Sushizanmai, it is the only place listed here for Tsukiji that is still serving at three in the morning.

The oyster soup is made from Hiroshima oysters reduced to a thick broth; the shellfish soup is a chicken clear soup simmered with seafood for six hours, then blended with two kinds of clam and freshwater clam stock. The noodles are hand-crimped just before serving. There are 14 counter seats, all non-smoking, and no reservations.

Good to know

• Reservations are not taken at all. Queue at the door.
• Fourteen counter seats only, and the whole shop is non-smoking.
• Closing days are irregular and announced on the shop's own site.
• Prices are not published.