Tomofair Reviews 65

I have been attending Tomofair for many years starting with Tomofair Nijmegen, and I have watched it grow from something small into something truly special.
It used to be an event I was proud to recommend and excited to share with friends.

Last year I skipped the event because of the construction issues which was disappointing but understandable.
I also attended Tomofair Rotterdam which was already a huge disappointment.
Still I gave Tomofair another chance when it returned in Utrecht because I genuinely believed they would have learned from past mistakes.

That was a mistake.

The ticket price of €15 is absolutely not justified by what was offered.
What I walked into was shockingly small three rows of stands and four tiny food stalls.
That’s it.
I saw the entire event in 10 minutes. Ten. Minutes.

This felt less like a convention and more like a badly organized mini market except mini markets don’t charge €15 for entry.
I felt completely ripped off.

What makes this even worse is that I brought friends, expecting to show them what Tomofair used to be. Instead I was embarrassed.
This is not Tomofair.
This is a hollow shell of what it once was.

Tomofair Nijmegen was infinitely better with more atmosphere, more vendors, more energy, and more to do and that was when the event was supposedly “smaller.”
How is it possible that Tomofair has grown in name but shrunk so badly in content?

I left angry, disappointed, and honestly sad.
Long-time visitors can clearly see the decline and it feels like loyalty means nothing anymore.
If this is the future of Tomofair then it has completely lost what made it worth attending in the first place.
They have lost my respect for tomofair.

It is a total scam. I would not even give it one star. Location was Amsterdam and then they take you by bus to the middle of nowhere where you are stuck cause there are no return busses or are full and you canjot get in. You will not eat Japanese food, just overprised fried chicken from a freezer.

Absolute scam.
They organized an event in Amsterdam but the fair was actually in Aalsmeer in a gym.
Besides event being sold out they organized only 2 shuttle bus running every hour instead of the every 10 min as stated on the website.They organize event also using another name: Japanse Markt

This is a scam. I waited for hours at Amsterdam Rai station

We spent an hour waiting for a bus that only loaded a handful of people each time. We left because we didn't want to get heat stroke or sunburn. The line was so long that it went across the street. People were standing IN the street to make sure they didn't lose their place. How can you say that this Con is in Amsterdam when the bus went 30 mins away to another city! Paid for gas to go and parking just to stand in the sun for nothing. What a waste. I regret buying tickets and I hope the amateurs who planned this learn their lesson. The audacity to say "We did nothing wrong" is another level of stupid. The ride was 30 mins to the location, how can a bus come every 5 minutes? I'd love this person's level of ignorance because they must be living in bliss~

We couldn't get to the market because of bad organization of busses from RAI to market. We waited for 2 hours on the sun and realized that we are late. So sad.
Tomofair, give me my money for tickets back! 30 Euro for nothing!

absolute scam, misrepresented to be held in RAI but actually shuttled away out of Amsterdam in the middle of nowhere. the organisers deserve to go personally bankrupt so they cannot run trash like this ever again. they state a bus every 5 mins. the bus is more like every hour.
the worst thing is they advertise for families with children. this is the worst place to take children lest you want them to suffer long hours burning in the sun and crying in a hot stuff bus or waiting in a ridiculous queue to get back in middle of surbarban nowhere.
no japanese at this fair. complete misappropriation of a culture for selfish gain.
a waste of a beautiful sunny day. may karma send the organisers and enablers to commercial doom. ❌👎🏻

We bought three tickets for TomoFair 2025 in Amsterdam - website claimed it was RAI, but then that there is a gratis shuttle bus every 5 minutes. When we arrived, the bus stop wasn’t sign posted, but we could see a few hundred meter long queue. We waited for an hour in the queue, during which only two buses arrived. It has been the afternoon entry, so we lost considerable time in the queue and were not even near its end. We weren’t told where the buses actually ship people - and then we were told it was to Aalsmeer, into some shitty industrial hall - so if we would have gotten within the next hour into the bus, we would have spent at least 30 minutes in the buses to get from RAI to Aalsmeer - so, despite the fact we arrived to the RAI bus departure at 14:00, we would have in the end manage to get to the fair at about 16:00, if at all (and the end was 17:00). Absolute scam. We came with a kid, which was really tired waiting on sun for an hour (with no end of the queue in view). Everyone around us was as pissed as we were. I wish I could get a refund, but if everything around this fair is as well organized as the transportation, I am very happy I gave up after hour waiting. Scam. Total amateurs… just after money. I’d warn anyone from purchasing tickets in future from these jokers.