Ota Market: physical wholesale market in Tokyo — Ota
Ota Market is located in Tokyo's Ota ward and is a separate complex from Toyosu. Tokyo — Ota, Japan · Major Tokyo hub for produce and flower distribution.
AGR-063 · Physical wholesale market · Tokyo — Ota, Japan · JPY
Major Tokyo hub for produce and flower distribution
Ota Market is located in Tokyo's Ota ward and is a separate complex from Toyosu. It is a physical wholesale market covering fruit, vegetables, seafood and flowers. Tokyo Seika, a participating wholesaler, describes its role in supplying the metropolitan area and dates its opening to 1989. The figures below describe the market as a whole rather than that company's revenue. The absence of a base year for the indicative daily throughput is retained in the data label instead of presenting the figure as a recent annual result.
Tokyo's municipal reporting system allows Ota to be compared with other metropolitan markets. Select the column Ota and the appropriate commodity department rather than reading the total across all venues. Reports include expected vegetable arrivals expressed in tonnes. An expected arrival quantity is neither a price nor a final sales volume. For an individual quotation, check the date, trading unit, origin and the kind of price being reported. The example report is provided to illustrate the market selection, not as a live quotation.
A professional buyer should establish whether it will transact through an authorised wholesaler, an intermediate wholesaler or another permitted route. A practical enquiry needs the Japanese product name, variety, grade, pack weight and collection date. For flowers, add stem length, development stage and the number of stems per bunch. Fresh produce requires separate checks on maturity and remaining shelf life, especially where goods will travel beyond greater Tokyo. Public access to market reports does not itself authorise participation in every transaction or unrestricted access to commercial working areas.
A seller exploring Japan can begin by contacting a suitable wholesaler with a repeatable supply programme. A useful offer identifies origin, harvest calendar, available volume, packaging and quality documentation. Import procedures must be confirmed for the particular product; a category appearing in a market report is not permission to import from any country. Agree how rejected lots, claim deadlines and transport responsibilities will be handled. The price catalogue can help assess selling seasons, but it cannot replace sample assessment or an individual customer's requirements. Where settlement will be in another currency, retain the original yen quotation alongside the conversion so that product-price changes remain distinguishable from exchange-rate movements.
What is priced: Fruit, Vegetables and potatoes, Cut flowers and ornamentals, Nursery, pot and garden plants, Seeds and planting material, Fish and seafood
Where to find the prices
- Daikon radish; Carrots; Cabbage; Lettuce; Chinese cabbage; Spinach; fresh fruit; cut flowers; fish and seafood (Web page, Free)
- Pot plants, potted orchids, foliage plants, ornamental trees, nursery seedlings (Spreadsheet, Monthly, Free)
- Monthly statistics index (Web page, Monthly, Free)
- Monthly average prices by item — flowering pot plants (PDF, Yearly, Free)
- Foliage (house) plants (PDF, Yearly, Free)
- Ornamental trees and shrubs (PDF, Yearly, Free)
- Nursery stock, bedding plants (PDF, Yearly, Free)
- Potted orchids (PDF, Yearly, Free)
- Cut flowers — monthly average prices by item (PDF, Yearly, Free)
Products and quotations
Daikon radish; Carrots; Cabbage; Lettuce; Chinese cabbage; Spinach; Fresh fruit; Cut flowers; Fish and seafood
Key figures
- Indicative daily fruit and vegetable throughput: 3,700 t/day (Base year undisclosed; checked 27 Oct 2026). Approximate; market profile published by wholesaler Tokyo Seika.
- Area stated in market profile: 386,426 m² (Base year undisclosed; checked 27 Oct 2026). Ota market as a whole; not Tokyo Seika alone.
Sources
- Tokyo Seika — market profile and trading chain
- Tokyo Metropolitan Government — daily market data
- Tokyo — example vegetable report
All agricultural exchanges, markets and price sources
