Tsukiji Fishmarket, Tokyo

To visit the Tsukiji Fishmarket is an amazing experince.

You have high class fresh food everywhere, the small, taste and beautifull food is fantastic.

Have you ever experinced it?

If you havent then put it on your bucketlist and enjoy my movie and pictures.

Tsukiji Fish Market (Japanese: 築地市場, Tsukiji shijō) is the largest wholesale seafood market in the world and one of the largest wholesale food markets overall. Located in Tsukiji in central Tokyo, the market is a major attraction for foreign visitors (Japanese do not usually make occasional visits to the market).

The market handles more than 400 kinds of food from the sea, from small sardines to 300 kilo tunas, from cheap seaweed to the most expensive caviar. On average, more than 700,000 tons of food are handled each year in the three Tokyo fish markets, corresponding to a total value of 600 billion yen. Tsukiji alone handles more than 2,000 tons of marine edibles a day. The number of registered employees varies between 60,000 and 65,000 (including wholesalers, chamberlains, auctioneers, clerks and distributors).

The first market was established by Tokugawa Ieyasu during the Edo period to supply Edo Castle (today’s Tokyo) with food. Tokugawa Ieyasu invited fishermen from Tsukudajima in Osaka to Edo to supply the castle with fish. Fish not purchased by the castle were sold near Nihonbashi Bridge, at a market called uogashi (fish wharf) which was one of several specialized wholesale markets located along the canals of Edo (as Tokyo was known until the 1870s).

Please watch this video from out visit:

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