Tsukiji fish market has closed

[dmitri]

I really dropped the ball on this and missed out on visiting one of the best wet markets in the world. I heard lots of great stories and saw some cracking doco's on it. It's re-openining in another location but surely won't be the same.

https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/tokyo-tsukiji-fish-market-toyosu/index.html

 

[kpc]

It is one of those things that you do once and once only....visited in 2009 and had to catch the first subway train there ~ 445am IIRC....the tuna auction was interesting but my +1 still hasnt forgiven me for the early start!

 

[moa999]

My one and only visit was Shinjuku to Conrad, shower and out...

 

[Cool Cat Phil]

On the plus side - you no longer need to queue at OMG O'clock for visitor tickets.
The new fish market at Toyosu will have far better visitor access to witness all the action.

 

[dmitri]

On the plus side - you no longer need to queue at OMG O'clock for visitor tickets.
The new fish market at Toyosu will have far better visitor access to witness all the access.

I wake up at 345 for work- I'm used to stupid o'clock.

 

[GarrettM]

I wake up at 345 for work- I'm used to stupid o'clock.

345???? I would kill for that extra 45 minutes. Lucky bugger.

On topic... I also regret not visiting last year when I had the chance. May well explore the new facility one day though.

 

[Hvr]

I wake up at 345 for work

That time is either 15 minutes before starting or 15 minutes before finishing.

Back on topic, I visited Tsukiji a few years ago and thought it was well worth the effort.

 

[Katie]

I went by myself in 2015 after a night at the Conrad. Ended up wandering through the inner market, but didn't go to the auction. Had a lovely exchange with a man at one stall who asked me if I was from America, I said Australia, and he pointed at the large tuna he was cutting, and said it was from Australia (he was speaking in Japanese, I was speaking in English).

Went back with Mr Katie and Little Miss last September. We didn't go to the inner market, but ended up in the proper outer market area to buy a knife, stone, and then have sushi lunch. Mr Katie was happy with his knife, kept trying to buy another, but the lady at the knife stall kept insisting that he didn't need any more!! What a strange retail experience.
We then had sashimi lunch, which Little Miss wasn't keen on, and spent most of the time playing with a baby at the table behind us. She gave the baby one of those little koala toys - the grandparents came back a few minutes after leaving the restaurant to give Little Miss two packets of gorgeously decorated bandaids. (I realised on that trip my great idea of letting Little Miss give the kids she'd play with the little koalas turned into a reciprocal giving situation, which I hadn't anticipated).

 

[Himeno]

345???? I would kill for that extra 45 minutes. Lucky bugger.

On topic... I also regret not visiting last year when I had the chance. May well explore the new facility one day though.

I'm up at 430 for work. Used to be up at 230 most days before I got screwed over and forced to transfer to another store.

The market was meant to move a few years ago. It was delayed because they had to clean up remnants of the former gas plant on the new site first before they could build anything on it. The market hasn't moved far, just 2kms away to Toyosu. Parts of the Tsukiji market is remaining while the rest is being redeveloped.

I never went, never saw what the appeal was.