Tsukiji Fish Market is one of the big tourist spots in Tokyo. What says Japan more then tons and tons of fresh fish as well as every other imaginable (and unimaginable) sea animal. Tsukiji is the largest fish market in Japan - it's huge. All the guide books say that you have to be there by 6am or it will be all over, especially the tuna auctions. It's a real working market so the tourists have to be constantly aware of the men on their motorized carts buzzing around at high speeds. The man in the photo is inspecting the fish. He and the others would walk up and down the rows, flip up a flap of tuna flesh, shine a flashlight on it, then move on. It seems to me that they were doing more 'busy work' then actually inspecting.
The second photo is of an ice block making machine. It really caught my eye because, by the look of it, it's been faithfully churning out ice blocks for probably 100 years. I believe the sign on front is the pricing.
After the market we had tempura soba (noodles) at a nearby stall along the street. Usually people go for the freshest sushi on Earth in the resturants surrounding Tsukiji, but neither of us were up for raw fish for breakfast at 7am.
Tsukiji on Wikipedia
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