Okay, I couldn't resist a few more pictures: here's one of the many women keeping accounts. And below, a struggle with an eel.
I have no idea what these are, but Doug thought they might be roe sacs....
More fish (above), and (below) another woman keeping accounts.
Here's a better picture of the someone driving a fish cart inside the indoor market.
Some conches...
sardines...
eels in a bucket...
and strips of fish marinating.
Some more of the mysteries at the market. I'm not sure what the objects above are, but below are some tuna steaks...
and some prawns of some kind, waiting their doom....
and here are some octopi,
and a much larger, redder variety.
I took probably 250 pictures here, maybe a hundred of different kinds of seafood. I'm not sure what the white fish above are, but they were like shining wet ivory. Below, I think these are scallops...
and here are some white squid...
some very, very red shrimp...
and some beautiful clams.
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).
It is great fun to people watch at Odaiba, though tough to take photos discreetly. here are some feet of people, right outside the Toyota showroom, watching children jump on a lever-and-pully trampoline ride.
These two, Rentaro and Natsuko, asked to have their picture taken.
We did ride this ferris wheel, which gives an impressive view of Tokyo Harbor.
Inside the arcade....
A lemon-drink torch....
It's hard to describe what Odaiba, a large human-made recreational island on the southern edge of Tokyo harbor, actually is. It's as if Las Vegas were combined with Epcot Center and the largest shopping mall on earth--the place is full of themed giant malls (VenusFort with an Ancient Roman theme; AquaPark with an underwater theme; The Decks with a boardwalk theme, and so on) not to mention commercial center (the head of Fuji Film, Television and Camera; the big Tokyo Toyota showroom) and a bunch of other oddities (multi-story themed arcades, a small replica of the Statue of Liberty, and so on). Thousands of people head there on their days off, mostly young couples decked out to shop around. 
One of the major architectural wonders there is the Fuji building, which has a 24th floor observation deck that looks out on the harbor and the Tokyo skyline (top picture). The view must be particularly impressive for the window washers, like this man who posed as he was winding up his ropes for the day.
Here's a straight on shot of the building, the scale of which is hard to detect. On the bottom left of this picture (above) is a large stairway that is almost the width of the building, and which goes up about ten floors out in the open. The observation deck was near the floating globe.
Moving around the building one sees amazing views of its structure. The thin one-story-tall connectors here actually contain offices.
I'll post more Odaiba pictures (including the ferris wheel we rode) later today.
