Azabudai Hills Market: Dashi Packs, Hours & Access

Where the Azabudai Hills food hall is, how to get there, what to shop for and what to bring home, as of 2026. Here is how to use its 33 specialty shops without wasting time.

Today I am covering the Azabudai Hills food hall, or Azabudai Hills Market, in Garden Plaza C.

It is not a supermarket. Thirty-three specialty shops sit under one roof, covering fresh food, prepared dishes, wine, sake, bakery, sweets and flowers. If you want to handle your Azabudai Hills shopping and your gift shopping in one stop, this is the place.

Azabudai Hills Market: hours, location and how to get there

The food hall covers shopping, gifts and a quick meal in one place.

Azabudai Hills Market details

Azabudai Hills is split across four buildings: Tower Plaza and Garden Plaza A, B and C. The food hall is in Garden Plaza C, connected to Tower Plaza on the first floor.

From Exit 5 at Kamiyacho Station, follow the underground passage and you will see signs pointing toward Garden Plaza C.

Azabudai Hills supermarket: shopping for ingredients

What separates Azabudai Hills Market from an ordinary supermarket is the fresh food. From groceries to fish, meat and vegetables, the best specialist in each field runs its own independent counter.

Meidi-ya Azabudai Store

Founded in 1885 (Meiji 18), Meidi-ya is Japan's oldest food retailer. Under a company philosophy of "always the very best," it brings together fine food from around the world and high-quality Japanese producers in one shop. Imported ingredients, seasonings and premium processed foods fill the shelves, the kind of thing an ordinary supermarket does not carry.

Kyoto Yaoichi: fruit and vegetables

A greengrocer with its head shop in Kyoto. It sells seasonal vegetables and fruit gathered from across Japan, along with produce grown on its own farm.

Hiyama WAGYU

A butcher founded in 1912 (Taisho 1) in Nihonbashi Ningyocho, with over a century of history. Experienced staff buy the meat themselves at Shibaura market and serve customers face to face, suggesting cuts to match what you are cooking. You can take home the same wagyu they supply to high-end restaurants, and they also sell prepared dishes such as croquettes and menchi katsu.

Tsukiji Toritoh: chicken

Founded in 1907 (Meiji 40), Toritoh has run a chicken wholesale business in Tsukiji for more than a hundred years. It brings in regional and branded chicken, cross-bred duck and game birds direct from their producers.

Azabudai Yamayuki fish shop

Run by Yamayuki, the top tuna and fish wholesaler at Toyosu market and the one trusted by leading sushi and Japanese restaurants at home and abroad. Tuna is the centerpiece, alongside seasonal fish that changes through the year and prepared dishes that let the fish itself carry the flavor.

📌 None of these shops stop at selling raw ingredients. Each one also suggests dishes and sells prepared food, so one lap of the market is enough to put dinner together.

Azabudai Hills dashi packs: Dashi Okume

Dashi Okume is a select shop for dashi and Japanese ingredients, run by Okume Shoten, a dried-goods wholesaler at Toyosu market founded in 1871 (Meiji 4). Its brand philosophy is a strict refusal of chemical seasonings and preservatives.

The thing to look at is the made-to-order dashi pack. You pick your own combination from 36 natural ingredients, including katsuobushi, niboshi, kombu and shiitake, and end up with a dashi pack that exists nowhere else. The shop also carries a wide range of selected seasonings, miso and soy sauce from all over Japan.

📌 Dashi packs keep at room temperature and weigh almost nothing, which makes them good to take home. A made-to-order one is one of a kind, so it works well for someone particular.

Eating at the Azabudai Hills food hall: lunch inside the market

The food hall also runs a dining area where you can eat something quick while shopping. It works for lunch before or after teamLab, or as a break in the middle of a shopping trip.

① Sushi Saito Azabudai

The Azabudai Hills branch of Sushi Saito, the three-Michelin-star shop that has won over connoisseurs in Japan and abroad. It carries the intent of head chef Takashi Saito, who wanted to make sushi more approachable and pass it to the next generation, with his apprentices doing the work at the counter.

✅ Book Sushi Saito Azabudai (official, omakase.in)

② Torioka

A branch of Torishiki, the Meguro yakitori restaurant where reservations are almost impossible to get. The idea was to let people enjoy yakitori more casually, so the market space is counter seating only. They use Date-dori, a branded chicken from a specialist farm, and the course includes rare cuts you will not easily find elsewhere.

✅ Book Torioka (official, omakase.in)

③ Parlor Yazawa

The premium deli from Meat Yazawa, the hamburg steak restaurant in Gotanda. You can eat their signature "grown-up kids' lunch" here, and takeout is available.

👉 Parlor Yazawa Azabudai Hills: Kids Lunch & Bento Menu

④ Fureika Kitchen

A branch of Chugoku Hanten Fureika, the Chinese restaurant that has drawn praise from food lovers and overseas VIPs since it opened in Higashi-Azabu in 2000. There are around 15 Chinese dishes to choose from, including their well-known black vinegar sweet and sour pork, tamari soy sauce fried rice (black fried rice) and spring rolls.

⑤ Kameido Gyoza

An old shop that has been making gyoza in Kameido, in Tokyo's shitamachi, since 1953. The gyoza are small, made with carefully selected domestic vegetables and a generous amount of Tokiwa garlic, a branded garlic from Aomori. You can eat them freshly grilled at the counter.

📌 The dining area is very small. There is a wait during the 12:00 to 14:00 peak, so go right after opening or after 2pm.

Gift shopping at the Azabudai Hills food hall

Azabudai Hills Market is well suited to buying gifts on a Tokyo trip.

① TEAPOND

A tea specialist stocking seasonal black teas from around the world along with distinctive flavored teas. Staff will help you find a scent that suits you, and they brew tea by the cup to take away. The packaging is lovely, which is a large part of why it sells so well as a gift.

② MATTE

A shop for Italian chocolate confectionery, which is rare in Japan. Its signature product, Corteccia, is a traditional Neapolitan chocolate sweet that looks like a tree branch. The thin layers of chocolate melt in your mouth and finish clean. It is the result of chasing "the thinnest chocolate in the world" down to 0.1mm. The shop also sells traditional sweets from other parts of Italy, such as Sospiri from Puglia and Tupo, an ice cream cake from Calabria.

③ Comme’N TOKYO

A bakery led by Shuichi Osawa, the first Japanese baker to win the international Mondial du Pain competition outright. It offers around 100 kinds of bread, from staples such as shokupan, baguettes and croissants to savory and original creations. It is one of Tokyo's best bakeries and holds a place on Tabelog's Bread Hyakumeiten list. The popular loaves go quickly after opening, so come in the morning.

👉 Comme'N Tokyo Azabudai Hills: World Champion Bakery

④ GAZTA

Basque cheesecake of the kind long loved in San Sebastian, in Spain's Basque Country. The outside looks slightly burnt from the bake while the inside stays moist and full of rich cheese flavor. Simple, and with a taste and texture you will not find elsewhere.

🎁 More Azabudai Hills gift guides

If you are looking for wagashi to take home from a Tokyo trip, try Suzukake in Garden Plaza C. For fine chocolate, Criollo in Garden Plaza B.

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👉 Criollo Azabudai Hills: Chocolate Sets, Prices & Souvenirs (Garden Plaza B B1F)

Azabudai Hills Market is too good to walk past. One dashi pack and one box of tea, and your Tokyo gift problem is solved. Leave time for the market when you plan your visit to Azabudai Hills.

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