If I didn't see anything else all week, the early morning trip to Tokyo's traditional fish market would make the week worth while. We got there at around 6:45 in the morning, about 2 or 3 hours after activity had already started. Early in the morning is the tuna auction, closed to tourists, and by 7:00, the wholesalers are preparing fish, continuing to make their sales, and moving supplies. Most of the market is indoors, and it's hard to convey the sense of business and close quarters, but the picture above will give some sense of the activity. Inside and outside, men are moving boxes of iced fish on motorized platforms: the steering wheel and accelerator is on top of a large drum. The whole vehicle is about 3 feet wide, and they move through the aisles of the market.
Here's someone carving a tuna.
Within each little area, for each business within, there's typically a small booth with one or two women (though sometimes a man) who keeps track of sales and prices.
This man let me watch him struggle with some large eels (you can see some in the water tank behind him).
If I didn't see anything else all week, the early morning trip to Tokyo's traditional fish market would make the week worth while. We got there at around 6:45 in the morning, about 2 or 3 hours after activity had already started. Early in the morning is the tuna auction, closed to tourists, and by 7:00, the wholesalers are preparing fish, continuing to make their sales, and moving supplies. Most of the market is indoors, and it's hard to convey the sense of business and close quarters, but the picture above will give some sense of the activity. Inside and outside, men are moving boxes of iced fish on motorized platforms: the steering wheel and accelerator is on top of a large drum. The whole vehicle is about 3 feet wide, and they move through the aisles of the market.
Here's someone carving a tuna.
Within each little area, for each business within, there's typically a small booth with one or two women (though sometimes a man) who keeps track of sales and prices.
This man let me watch him struggle with some large eels (you can see some in the water tank behind him).
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