What other travelers are saying about Omicho Market
Omicho Market located in the heart of Kanazawa city in Ishikawa prefecture is the best market in Japan in my opinion!🔥. Not only does it offer some of the freshest seafood on the planet, but they also offer a lot of delicious fresh fruit and vegetables as well 👍. Compared with some of the other markets in Japan, the prices are not going to break your bank! 😋. The wide streets and friendly shop keepers makers a visit to the market a real treat!😀. Food isn’t the only reason to visit this amazing market, they also have an interesting craft beer shop that has gold leaf beer for that perfect Instagram shot that will make all of your friends jealous!😝
Allegedly the top 3 cleanest fish markets in Japan - this place comes with three floors of restaurants and merchants, and opens from early morning until late afternoon, with full functioning clean toilets available.
Most of the foods and restaurants are sold at marked up tourist prices, and during busy period it can be quite overwhelming. Overall a fun experience but won’t recommend for food over a restaurant in the city.
Definitely the best sea food market we visited in Japan. We walked around for a bit. See and judge how the local vendors react to you. If they completely ignore you (which some tend to do) walk past and find a vendor that is happy with you being there. There are some awesome vendors. For example the vendor at the first crossing near the main who sells oysters and crabs. We tried the oyster and crab here. Was absolutely delicous! We also tried at the next crossing the fresh tuna from the vendor on the left side.
One of my favorite fish markets across Japan, it is not overly crowded, seafood is fresh and more reasonably priced and the people are generally friendly. During crab season, definitely try it because it's just so good. The small stores at the back alleys have great seafood bowl options for lunch as well, explore around to find one that you like.
One of the main attractions in Kanazawa that I was looking forward to, but it turned out quite disappointing for me.
The market opens rather late. We arrived around 9.30am on a Wednesday and not all the shops were open. It felt smaller in scale than expected.
There were a few stalls selling fresh seafood like oysters and sea urchin that you can eat on the spot, but overall, the experience did not quite live up to the hype.
