Kuromon Market: This “kitchen of Osaka” has become a popular spot for tourists

Located just outside the Nihonbashi Station, Kuromon Ichiba Market is a shopping area comprised of around 180 shops, with a history that goes back over 100 years.

Residents of Osaka have crowded “Osaka’s Kitchen” looking to buy fruit, fish, vegetables and other fresh produce since the old days.

In recent years, however, those crowds have included more and more foreign visitors as the market attracts attention as a tourist spot.

Not only can you buy fresh fish at affordable prices, but you can eat it right there!

The market is home to a number of vendors selling fresh fish. Just looking at fresh tuna is enough to make your mouth water.

To better accommodate the needs of hungry tourists, an increasing number of shops currently provide eat-in spaces where anyone can buy a fish, have it cooked, and eat it on the spot.

To further make the experience easier for foreigners to enjoy, signs and price tags are written in several languages, and rest areas are provided in various places around the market.

You can even have blowfish sashimi there!

The number of brave tourists who come to experience blowfish at Kuromon Ichiba Market has gone up in the last few years. As you likely know, blowfish carry a dangerous and potentially deadly poison, requiring chefs to carry a special license just to prepare them in Japan.
Even so, the meat is an exceptionally popular and delicious luxury in Japan, and so foreign visitors willing to take the challenge are on the rise.
Blowfish really is very tasty. You should absolutely try it if you ever visit Kuromon Ichiba Market.

There are so many shops selling fruit, meat, and more!

Japan’s strawberries and Kobe beef are known the world over, and there are plenty of shops where you can stop to enjoy them.

There are even a few unusual strawberries.

The rest areas even have Wi-Fi!

The free rest areas in the market allow food and drink, and are equipped with Wi-Fi, making them the perfect place to connect to your social networks to share photos of what you’re eating and what you’re going to bring home. You can even look up the tourist spots you want to hit next.

In fact, Kuromon Ichiba Market is just a few minute’s walk from “Denden Town”, Osaka’s famous electronics marketplace.
This is such a good place for sightseeing and shopping that you simply must visit any time you come to Osaka!