Tokyo’s newest tourist attraction will open its doors on Thursday just across the street from the Toyosu fish market.
Designed to emulate an Edo-period cityscape, the establishment known as Toyosu Senkyaku Banrai hosts restaurants — many of which incorporate fresh products from the Toyosu market — and an onsen area that uses hot spring water sourced from Yugawara and Hakone, popular hot spring towns in Kanagawa Prefecture.
The new establishment was set to open in 2018 — coinciding with the Tsukiji fish market's moved to Toyosu — and serve the same role as Tsukiji’s outer market. However, local opposition to the move and the COVID-19 pandemic have delayed the opening for years.