Osaka Municipal Central Wholesale Market (Honjo)

The Osaka Municipal Central Wholesale Market, Honjo, is located at Noda in Fukushima Ward and opened in 1925. It is western Japan's largest public fresh-produce wholesale market, running auction trading in fruit, vegetables, seafood, flowers and plants during early-morning hours, with eateries and visitor walkways on site. It supplies supermarkets, restaurants and fish shops across the Kansai region, and its on-site restaurants make it a rare wholesale market that also draws food-minded visitors.

The market auctions and wholesales fruit, vegetables, seafood and meat, with cold storage and processing facilities on site. For Chinese food and seafood exporters, it offers an entry route into the Kansai fresh-distribution system, and a chance to meet licensed wholesalers serving western Japan's supermarkets and restaurants. Its morning auctions are open to registered trade buyers, so exporters should arrange introductions through an established wholesaler.