Tsukiji Market is a major tourist attraction for both domestic and overseas visitors in Tokyo.
The area contains retail markets, restaurants, and associated restaurant supply stores. Before 2018, it was the largest wholesale fish and seafood market in the world.
The market opened on 11 February 1935 as a replacement for an older market that was destroyed in the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake. It was closed on 6 October 2018, with wholesale operations moving to the new Toyosu Market. The area where the old market was localized was demolished and will rebuilt into a new economic complex featuring a brand new stadium for the Yomiuri Giants of the Nippon Profissional Baseball.
Tsukiji as seen from Shiodome, 2018
A busy street in Tsukiji
Cut frozen tuna being prepared
A maguro bōchō in use
Tsukiji (築地) is a district of Chūō, Tokyo, Japan. Literally meaning "reclaimed land", it lies near the Sumida River on land reclaimed from Tokyo Bay in the 18th century during the Edo period. The eponymous Tsukiji fish market opened in 1935 and closed in 2018 when its operations were moved to the new Toyosu Market.
Tsukiji fish market
Tsukiji Naval Academy hot air balloon demonstration (1877) Hiroshige III
Tsukiji fish market
Tsukiji Hongan-ji