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Fish market, Japan

Toyosu Market, Tokyo

Tokyo's wholesale fish market since 2018, successor to Tsukiji and home of the New Year tuna auction.

Toyosu Market opened in October 2018 on reclaimed land in Koto ward, replacing the famous Tsukiji market, which had been Tokyo's fish market since 1935. It is one of the largest wholesale fish markets in the world, handling hundreds of kinds of seafood from Japan and around the world. Visitors watch the early morning tuna auctions from viewing galleries above the floor.

The tuna auction

Frozen and fresh tuna lie in rows on the auction floor, each with a flap cut near the tail so that buyers can judge the colour and fat of the meat with a torch. Bidding is fast, with hand signals. The first auction of the New Year draws attention every January, when a single bluefin, often from Oma in Aomori, can sell for a record sum. The market also handles salmon, yellowtail, sea bream, eels, sea urchin and pufferfish.

From Tsukiji to Toyosu

Tsukiji had grown cramped and old, and the city decided to move the market to a new, closed, temperature-controlled site. The move was delayed for two years after soil and groundwater at Toyosu, a former gas works site, were found to be contaminated, and the city carried out extra clean-up works. The outer market at Tsukiji, with its shops and restaurants, stayed open.

Still to be written: Pacific bluefin tuna, Takifugu rubripes, Japanese amberjack, Red seabream, Japanese eel.

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