Smoking Rules around Toyosu and teamLab Planets 2026: Koto City Bans Smoking While Walking Ward-Wide, and Toyosu Station Is a Priority No-Smoking District (all day since October 2025)
Table of contents
- 1.About this guide and disclaimer
- 2.Two layers: a ward-wide ban on smoking while walking, plus the priority districts
- 3.Public smoking areas and the "designated public smoking area" scheme
- 4.teamLab Planets TOKYO, Toyosu Market and other venues
- 5.Indoors, and how heated tobacco is treated
- 6.Find smoking areas around Toyosu with MottoSuitai
- 7.Before you go: check the official information
About this guide and disclaimer
This is a third-party guide compiled as of August 2026 from the Koto City official site (https://www.city.koto.lg.jp/) — its page on preventing smoking while walking, the text of the ordinance, its Basic Policy on Tobacco page and its designated public smoking area page — together with the Toyosu Market official site (https://www.toyosu-market.or.jp/) and the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare second-hand smoke portal (https://jyudokitsuen.mhlw.go.jp/). We could not confirm official primary information from teamLab Planets TOKYO on whether smoking is possible on site or whether it has a smoking area, so this article does not state either way — please check with the venue. The same applies to Toyosu Market, shopping complexes and hotels. District boundaries and smoking area operations can change, so always confirm the latest with Koto City and the facility. Smoking under the age of 20 is prohibited by law in Japan, and this article does not encourage smoking.
Two layers: a ward-wide ban on smoking while walking, plus the priority districts
Koto City's outdoor rule has two layers. Article 7 of the ordinance provides that "residents and others shall not smoke while walking or throw away tobacco in public places," and this applies throughout the ward. Article 2(6) defines smoking while walking as "smoking, or holding lit tobacco, while walking (including while moving by bicycle or similar)" — so carrying a lit cigarette in your hand as you walk is itself the prohibited act, and smoking while cycling is covered too.
Article 8 adds that "no person shall smoke on the street in a district the mayor has designated in advance as a priority no-smoking district, such as the area around a station entrance at busy times." Inside those districts, standing still to smoke is prohibited as well. The ward lists ten station areas: Kameido, Sumiyoshi, Morishita, Kiyosumi-shirakawa, Minami-sunamachi, Toyocho, Kiba, Monzen-nakacho, Shin-kiba and Toyosu. The key operational change is that, per the ward, "from 1 October 2025 the time restriction was removed and the ban became all-day." Toyosu Station, served by the Tokyo Metro Yurakucho Line and the Yurikamome, is the starting point for visits to teamLab Planets TOKYO, Toyosu Market and the large shopping complexes — so assume you are inside a priority no-smoking district the moment you step out of the station.
- Ward-wide: no smoking while walking and no throwing away tobacco in public places (Article 7)
- Priority no-smoking districts (ten station areas): street smoking prohibited even standing still (Article 8)
- From 1 October 2025 the time restriction was removed — the district ban applies all day
- The ordinance has no penalty or fine provision; measures are guidance, recommendation and publication
- The ward's Basic Policy on Tobacco (revised 26 June 2025) states it will expand the districts and introduce penalties
- The ordinance does not expressly define "tobacco," so how far it covers heated tobacco is not clear from the text alone — check with the ward
- People under 20 may not enter a smoking area at all (revised Health Promotion Act)
Public smoking areas and the "designated public smoking area" scheme
Koto City also publishes information on smoking facilities. Its page on preventing smoking while walking states that the ward's public smoking areas (excluding those inside parks) are in front of Shiomi, Tatsumi and Shin-kiba stations. Toyosu is not among those three.
Separately, the ward runs a "designated public smoking area" scheme. According to the ward's page (updated 1 July 2026), it designates privately operated smoking places that comply with the relevant laws as public smoking areas open to anyone free of charge, and subsidises part of the installation and maintenance cost. The list of designated public smoking areas is published as a PDF on the ward site. This article does not state the name, location or hours of any individual designated public smoking area — check the ward list alongside the MottoSuitai map when planning your route around Toyosu.
teamLab Planets TOKYO, Toyosu Market and other venues
Toyosu is home to teamLab Planets TOKYO, Toyosu Market, large shopping complexes and hotels. For teamLab Planets TOKYO we could not confirm official primary information on whether smoking is possible on site or whether a smoking area exists, so this article does not state either way; if you need somewhere to smoke before or after your visit, check the venue's official site and the on-site signage. The Toyosu Market official site gives its address as 6-6-1 Toyosu, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-0061, "immediately by Shijo-mae Station on the Yurikamome," but we could not find any mention of smoking there, so we do not state whether it has smoking facilities. For any venue, the revised Health Promotion Act makes indoor spaces non-smoking in principle, and facilities with smoking equipment must display the prescribed signage — the signage is your reliable indicator.
Indoors, and how heated tobacco is treated
Since the revised Health Promotion Act came fully into force on 1 April 2020, facilities used by many people are non-smoking indoors in principle; where conditions are met a facility may install a dedicated smoking room, a heated-tobacco-only smoking room, a smoking-permitted room or a smoking-purpose room, and people under 20 may not enter a smoking area at all (source: MHLW https://jyudokitsuen.mhlw.go.jp/point/). Outdoors, note that the Koto City ordinance defines smoking while walking in terms of "lit tobacco" and does not expressly define "tobacco," so how far heated tobacco falls within it is not clear from the text alone; we do not assert an answer here and suggest checking with the ward. Neighbouring Chuo City, by contrast, states plainly that its tobacco rules include heated tobacco. For the full picture of indoor rules, see our guide to the revised Health Promotion Act, and for heated tobacco specifically, our guide to IQOS, glo and Ploom in Japan.
Find smoking areas around Toyosu with MottoSuitai
To find somewhere you can smoke around Toyosu Station, Shijo-mae Station or teamLab Planets, browse nearby smoking areas on MottoSuitai's smoking area map. For Odaiba and Tokyo Big Sight, see the Odaiba and Tokyo Big Sight guide; for Tsukiji across the water in Chuo City, see the Tsukiji Outer Market guide.
Before you go: check the official information
This third-party guide reflects information published as of August 2026 on the Koto City official site, the Toyosu Market official site and the MHLW second-hand smoke portal. Koto City has stated in its Basic Policy on Tobacco that it will expand the priority no-smoking districts and introduce penalties, so the rules may change. Always confirm the latest with Koto City (https://www.city.koto.lg.jp/) and each facility. If you do smoke, use an indoor smoking room or a public or designated public smoking area, and always dispose of butts properly.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q.Can I smoke on the street around Toyosu Station?
A.No. Toyosu is one of the ten station areas Koto City has designated as priority no-smoking districts, where Article 8 of the ordinance prohibits street smoking. Since 1 October 2025 the time restriction has been removed and the ban applies all day. Smoking while walking and dropping cigarettes are separately banned across the entire ward (source: https://www.city.koto.lg.jp/380301/machizukuri/sekatsu/undo/45122.html).
Q.Is there a fine for street smoking in Koto City?
A.The Koto City ordinance has no penalty or fine provision; the measures are guidance (Article 9(1)), recommendation (Article 9(2)) and publication (Article 10). That said, the ward's Basic Policy on Tobacco, revised on 26 June 2025, states that it will expand the priority no-smoking districts and introduce penalties, so check the ward site for the current position.
Q.Does teamLab Planets TOKYO have a smoking area?
A.We could not confirm official primary information from the venue on whether smoking is possible on site or whether a smoking area exists, so this article does not state either way. Please check the venue's official site and the on-site signage. Indoors, the revised Health Promotion Act makes spaces non-smoking in principle, and facilities with smoking equipment must display the prescribed signage.
Q.Where are Koto City's public smoking areas?
A.According to the ward's page on preventing smoking while walking, its public smoking areas excluding those inside parks are in front of Shiomi, Tatsumi and Shin-kiba stations. Separately, the ward designates privately run smoking places as free-to-use "designated public smoking areas," and publishes that list as a PDF on its official site.