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Tokyo was still asleep when we were already among the tuna at Tsukiji...
The alarm went off at 4:15. Tokyo was dark and cold, but we had an appointment — with the greatest fish market in the world.
Tsukiji is no longer at its old location, but its spirit lives on in the new Toyosu Market. The scale is staggering — tons of tuna, octopus, crab, fish whose names I don’t know.
“So fresh that the fish literally melts on your tongue.”
POSOKA Travel Journal
The tuna auction is a spectacle. The buyers are serious, the gestures swift, the stakes enormous. A single tuna can cost as much as an apartment.
When we left the market, Tokyo was already awake. But we had already experienced something most Tokyoites have never seen.
