I travel the world #244 : Tsukiji Fishmarket (Part 1)

in #food8 years ago (edited)

Tsukiji Fish-market

is the biggest wholesale Fish and Seafood market in the world. Every Japanese fish goes through Tsukiji first before being delivered to other cities in Japan on the same day. Over 700.000 metric tons of fish are handled every year in Tsukiji. 

Entry

Everything comes in and goes out on the same day

There are over 30 Restaurants serving the freshest Seafood and Sushi

And some Restaurants have wait times of 30-60 Minutes

I bought one of these T-shirts....

Scallops..  I am getting hungry now

Impressive Market

There is a famous Tuna Auction between 5 and 6 am. You can register for it and see the best Tuna in the world with up to 300kg of weight being sold. Sometimes one Tuna goes for over 100.000$...  The cool thing here is that you can walk around the market freely as long you do not disturb the normal operations. The Restaurants are all fantastic, they are sourcing their fish directly from the market, so every restaurant is incredible !!!

Have you been to Tsukiji before ???

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I love getting into the culture by reading post like this. Thanks!

;) thank you . I will try to post more interesting stuff for you

I love reading stories like this, where you can get a sense of culture, tradition and everyday lifestyle from different places all over the world.
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Thanks for sharing this. I miss going to this when I was in Tokyo last April

;) you missed it ? oh no!. I will post a restaurant in my next post for you!

Looking forward to see it. BTW, few typos after looking at this in details:
deliviered freshst scalopps

ah sorry . my browser suddenly stopped underlining the typos. need to fix that

fixed it. super weird the auto correct option was disabled..