diff --git a/vllm/entrypoints/llm.py b/vllm/entrypoints/llm.py
index 614e6fa520c8c..fc82018d18eb6 100644
--- a/vllm/entrypoints/llm.py
+++ b/vllm/entrypoints/llm.py
@@ -111,13 +111,13 @@ def __init__(
 
     def get_tokenizer(
             self) -> Union[PreTrainedTokenizer, PreTrainedTokenizerFast]:
-        return self.llm_engine.tokenizer
+        return self.llm_engine.tokenizer.tokenizer
 
     def set_tokenizer(
         self,
         tokenizer: Union[PreTrainedTokenizer, PreTrainedTokenizerFast],
     ) -> None:
-        self.llm_engine.tokenizer = tokenizer
+        self.llm_engine.tokenizer.tokenizer = tokenizer
 
     def generate(
         self,