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Tag: Tsukiji fish market

  • Saturday, October 6th 2018 - 09:00 UTC

    Tokyo's traditional Tsukiji fish market closes down this Saturday

    A new US$ 5 billion facility at Toyosu will open Oct. 11, over the objections of many working in Tsukiji who contend the new site is contaminated and unsafe

    After years of delays Tokyo’s 83-year-old Tsukiji fish market is closing on Saturday to move to a more modern facility on reclaimed industrial land in Tokyo Bay. The new, US$ 5 billion facility at Toyosu will open Oct. 11, over the objections of many working in Tsukiji who contend the new site is contaminated, inconvenient and unsafe.

  • Friday, January 6th 2012 - 06:40 UTC

    All time record price for a 296 kilos blue-fin in Tokyo market: 712.000 dollars

    The world famous Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo

    A deep-pocketed restaurateur has paid more than 700.000 dollars for a tuna at Japan's Tsukiji fish market, smashing the record for a single blue-fin. Bidding on the 269kg fish, caught off the coast of Japan's northern Aomori prefecture, stood at an eye-popping 711.864 dollars when the hammer came down in the first auction of the year.