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Tokyo Central Wholesale Market

Address: 5-2-1 Tsukiji, Chuo-ku, Tokyo
Phone: 03/3542-1111
www.shijou.metro.Tokyo.jp

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Category: Markets/Bazaars
Location: Chuo-ku

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Fodor's Review:

The city's fish market used to be farther uptown, in Nihombashi. It was moved to Tsukiji after the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, and it occupies the site of what was once Japan's first naval training academy. Today the market sprawls over some 54 acres of reclaimed land and employs approximately 15,000 people, making it the largest fish market in the world. Its warren of buildings houses about 1,200 wholesale shops, supplying 90% of the seafood consumed in Tokyo every day—some 2,400 tons of it. Most of the seafood sold in Tsukiji comes in by truck, arriving through the night from fishing ports all over the country.

Cost: Free
Open: Business hrs Mon.-Sat. (except 2nd and 4th Wed. of month) 5 AM-3 PM
Subway: Oedo subway line, Tsukiji-shijo Station (Exit A1); Hibiya subway line, Tsukiji Station (Exit 1)

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