 Tsukiji as seen from Shiodome
 End of the fresh tuna auction at Tsukiji.
 A tray of six fugu rubripes on ice for sale at Tsukiji The Tokyo Metropolitan Central Wholesale Market, commonly known as Tsukiji fish market (Japanese: 築地市場, Tsukiji shijō) is the biggest wholesale fish and seafood market in the world and also one of the largest wholesale food markets of any kind. Download high resolution version (1389x652, 377 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...
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Species See text Tuna, sometimes called tunafish, are several species of ocean-dwelling fish in the family Scombridae, mostly in the genus Thunnus. ...
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Wholesaling consists of the sale of goods/merchandise to retailers, to industrial, commercial, institutional, or other professional business users or to other wholesalers and related subordinated services. ...
Atlantic herring, Clupea harengus: one of the most abundant species of fish in the world. ...
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The market is located in Tsukiji in central Tokyo, and is a major attraction for foreign visitors (few Japanese casually visit the market), especially for visitors with jet lag who have arrived from Narita International Airport; the best times to visit are between 5:00AM and 9:00AM. Tokyo ) , literally eastern capital, is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan and includes the highly urbanized central area formerly known as the city of Tokyo which is the heart of the Greater Tokyo Area. ...
Jet lag (or jet-lag) is a physical condition caused by crossing multiple time zones during flight. ...
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Location
The Tsukiji fish market is located near the Tsukiji Shijou Station on the Oedo subway line and Tsukiji Station on the Hibiya subway line. There are two distinct sections of the market as a whole. The "inner market" (jonai shijo) is the licensed wholesale market, where the auctions and most of the processing of the fish take place, and where licensed wholesale dealers (approximately 900 of them) operate small stalls. The "outer market" (jogai shijo) is a mixture of wholesale and retail shops that sell Japanese kitchen tools, restaurant supplies, groceries, and seafood, and many restaurants, especially sushi restaurants. Most of the shops in the outer market close by the early afternoon, and in the inner market even earlier. The Toei Ōedo Line (都営地下鉄大江戸線, Toei Chikatetsu Ōedo-sen) is a subway line in Tokyo, Japan operated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation (not the Tokyo Metro). ...
Hibiya Line (Click on image to enlarge. ...
An auctioneer and her assistants scan the crowd for bidders An auction is the process of buying and selling things by offering them up for bid, taking bids, and then selling the item to the highest bidder. ...
The following items are common Japanese cooking tools used in preparing Japanese cuisine. ...
In Japanese cuisine, sushi (most commonly 寿å¸, but also 鮨 or 鮓) is a food made of vinegared rice combined with various toppings or fillings. ...
Economics The market handles more than 400 different types of seafood from tiny sardines to 300kg tuna, from cheap seaweed to the most expensive caviar. Overall, more than 700,000 metric tons of seafood are handled every year at the three seafood markets in Tokyo, with a total value in excess of 600 billion yen (approximately 6 billion US dollars). Tsukiji alone handles over 2000 metric tons of seafood per day.hi Sardines or pilchards are a group of several types of small oily fish related to herrings, family Clupeidae. ...
Species See text Tuna, sometimes called tunafish, are several species of ocean-dwelling fish in the family Scombridae, mostly in the genus Thunnus. ...
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A can of black Iranian caviar Russian salmon caviar on butterbrot Caviar is the processed, salted roe of various species of fish, most notably sturgeon. ...
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Operations
 Cutting frozen tuna with a band saw The market opens every morning except Sundays and holidays at 3:00 AM with the arrival of the products by ship, truck and plane from all over the world. Particularly impressive is the unloading of tons of frozen tuna. The auction houses (wholesalers known in Japanese as oroshi gyousha) then estimate the value and prepare the incoming products for the auctions. The buyers (licensed to participate in the auctions) also inspect the fish to estimate which fish they would like to bid for and at which price. Download high resolution version (1133x1520, 344 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...
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Hancho hocho, a half length blade at the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo An oroshi hocho in use at the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo Oroshi hocho (おろし包丁, literally: wholesale knife) and hancho hocho (半丁包丁, literally: half tool knife) are extremely long highly specialized knives used in Japan to fillet...
Tokyo ) , literally eastern capital, is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan and includes the highly urbanized central area formerly known as the city of Tokyo which is the heart of the Greater Tokyo Area. ...
The auctions start around 5:00 AM. As of May 9, 2005, tourists are no longer allowed to visit the auctions unless they obtain a special permit beforehand. The remainder of the market can be visited. Bidding can only be done by licensed participants. These bidders include intermediate wholesalers [nakaoroshi gyousha] who operate stalls within the marketplace, and other licensed buyers who are agents for restaurants, food processing companies, and large retailers. May 9 is the 129th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (130th in leap years). ...
Template:Diffgggtgerent calendars 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
A drawing of a self-service store Retailing consists of the sale of goods/merchandise for personal or household consumption either from a fixed location such as a department store or kiosk, or away from a fixed location and related subordinated services (Definition of the WTO (last page). ...
The auctions usually end around 7:00AM. Afterwards, the purchased fish is either loaded onto trucks to be shipped to the next destination, or on small carts and moved to the many shops located inside of the market. There the shop owners cut and prepare the products for retail. In case of large fish, example tuna and swordfish, cutting and preparation is elaborate. Frozen tuna and swordfish are often cut with large band saws, and fresh tuna is carved with extremely long knives (some well over a meter in length) called Oroshi hocho, maguro-bocho, or Hancho hocho. Hancho hocho, a half length blade at the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo An oroshi hocho in use at the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo Oroshi hocho (おろし包丁, literally: wholesale knife) and hancho hocho (半丁包丁, literally: half tool knife) are extremely long highly specialized knives used in Japan to fillet...
Using a Oroshi hocho knife to filet tuna at the Tsukiji fish market. ...
Hancho hocho, a half length blade at the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo An oroshi hocho in use at the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo Oroshi hocho (おろし包丁, literally: wholesale knife) and hancho hocho (半丁包丁, literally: half tool knife) are extremely long highly specialized knives used in Japan to fillet...
The market is most busy between 8:00 and 10:AM, and the activity declines significantly afterwards. Many shops start to close around 11:00AM, and the market closes for cleaning around 1:00PM.
Inspectors from the Tokyo Metropolitan Government supervise activities in the market to enforce the Food Hygiene Law.
History The first market in Tokyo was established by Tokugawa Ieyasu during the Edo period to provide food for Edo castle (nowadays Tokyo). Tokugawa Ieyasu invited fishermen from Tsukudajima, Osaka to Edo in order to provide fish for the castle. Fish not bought by the castle was sold near the Nihonbashi bridge, at a market called uogashi (literally, "fish quay") which was one of many specialized wholesale markets that lined the canals of Edo (as Tokyo was known until the 1870s). Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu Tokugawa Ieyasu (previously spelled Iyeyasu); å¾³å· å®¶åº· (January 31, 1543 – June 1, 1616) was the founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan which ruled from the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. ...
The Edo period (Japanese: 江戸時代, Edo-jidai), also called Tokugawa period, is a division of Japanese history running from 1603 to 1867. ...
Edo (Japanese: 江戸, literally: bay-door, estuary), once also spelled Yedo or Yeddo, is the former name of the Japanese capital Tokyo. ...
Osaka Castle Location in Japan Osaka (Japanese: 大阪市, Ōsaka-shi, ▶ (help· info)) is the capital of Osaka Prefecture and the third-largest city in Japan, with a population of 2. ...
Nihombashi (the bridge) Marker from which distances are measured Nihombashi (or Nihonbashi, 日本橋, lit. ...
In August 1918, following the so-called "Rice Riots" (Kome Soudai) which broke out in over one hundred cities and towns in protest against food shortages and the speculative practices of wholesalers), the Japanese government was forced to create new institutions for the distribution of foodstuffs, especially in urban areas. A Central Wholesale Market Law was established in March 1923 . The Great Kantō earthquake on September 1, 1923, devastated much of central Tokyo, including the Nihonbashi fish market. In the aftermath of the earthquake, the market was relocated to the Tsukiji district, and after the construction of a modern market facility was completed in 1935, the fish market began operations under the provisions of the 1923 Central Wholesale Market Law. Three major markets in Tsukiji, Kanda and Koto began operating in 1935. Smaller branch markets were established in Ebara, Toshima, and Adachi, and elsewhere. At present, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's system of wholesale markets inlcudes more than a dozen major and branch markets, handling seafood, produce, meat, and cut flowers. 1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Great Kanto Earthquake The Great Kanto Earthquake (é–¢æ±å¤§éœ‡ç½ KantÅ daishinsai) struck the Kanto plain on the Japanese main island of Honshu at 11:58 on the morning of September 1, 1923. ...
September 1 is the 244th day of the year (245th in leap years). ...
1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...
1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
External links
Further reading - Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Center of the World, Theodore C. Bestor, University of California Press, Berkeley, 2004 (ISBN 0520220242)
- " Tokyo's Tsukiji Fish Market Threatened By Globalization," Bloomberg News, September 28, 2005.
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