{"id":684,"date":"2012-05-08T12:52:27","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T19:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.highheelgourmet.com\/?p=684"},"modified":"2012-05-08T12:52:27","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T19:52:27","slug":"tokyo-tsukiji-wholesale-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highheelgourmet.com\/?p=684","title":{"rendered":"Tsukiji The Wholesale Market Part I – Tokyo"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Tsukiji<\/a><\/p>\n

Tsukiji\u00a0Market<\/a>\u00a0is the biggest wholesale fish and seafood market in the world. Also one of the largest wholesale food markets\u00a0of any kind,\u00a0too. So not only fish and sea goodies, vegetables, fruits and etc. are also available. Times Travel listed visiting the\u00a0Tsukiji\u00a0market as number one out of 10 things to do in Tokyo.<\/p>\n

So what\u2019s a tourist supposed\u00a0to be at a\u00a0wholesales\u00a0market for?\u00a0I was there several times but\u00a0only on\u00a0extremely rare occasions was it\u00a0to buy raw fish for cooking.\u00a0When\u00a0I followed my chef friend to see the tuna auction and watch him pick and purchase\u00a0fish for his restaurant\u00a0was probably\u00a0the only time that I considered the trip as\u00a0a visit\u00a0for\u00a0a\u00a0wholesale purchase. I normally was there just to have sushi for breakfast.<\/p>\n

But many guide\u00a0books\u00a0say\u00a0you need to see the tuna auction or else you are not really there! Here\u2019s\u00a0the fact about the tuna auction. After it became so famous, the tourists swarm just for photo opportunities or\u00a0an\u00a0experience of a lifetime\u00a0or\u00a0whatever, but the people who\u00a0are there every day don\u2019t really want to a career as\u00a0a\u00a0model so they limit the number of visitors\u00a0in a day.<\/p>\n

You need to line up at the \u201cOsakana Fukyu Center\u201d (Fish Information Center\u2026whewwww) by 4am or earlier to apply for a visitor pass. The errrr\u2026Fukyu center will open at 5am and give out only 120 visitor passes per day. They divide visitors into 2 groups, with\u00a0only 60 people in each group. The first group will be admitted to the auction between 5:25am-5:50am, the second group will go at 5:50am-6:15am.<\/p>\n

So, if you aren\u2019t jet-lagged enough to go there at 4am, then don\u2019t bother. Get some sleep and go there after the chaos has subsided after 9am. There is also an outer market, the section that\u00a0is\u00a0open to\u00a0the\u00a0public,\u00a0which\u00a0you can visit anytime. There are a lot of shops and restaurants too.<\/p>\n

Here some pictures of the market. This is the first part. I\u2019m weeding through my thousands of pictures right now. The next one will be pictures and info of foods at the market.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"These<\/a>

These are from the section that opened to the public or called “the outer market”. There are a lot of shops and restaurants.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"This<\/a>

This is one of many knife shops at Tsukiji market. in the picture showed the “Tuna knifes”, a set of very long knifes at least about 4.5-5 feet long, in the cabinet and the small picture on the bottom left showed how to use them.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Several<\/a>

Several shops also in the outer market.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"These<\/a>

These are pictures taken from the inner market section. I didn’t take too many picture since it might obstruct the crazy traffic there. My recommendation is to get there after 9:30am and please, be aware of your surrounding and DO NOT obstruct the traffic around there.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Tsukiji<\/a><\/p>\n

\"On<\/a>

On the way to the inner market.<\/p><\/div>\n

(To be continued)<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tsukiji\u00a0Market\u00a0is the biggest wholesale fish and seafood market in the world. Also one of the largest wholesale food markets\u00a0of any kind,\u00a0too. So not only fish and sea goodies, vegetables, fruits and etc. are also available. Times Travel listed visiting the\u00a0Tsukiji\u00a0market as number one out of 10 things to do in Tokyo. So what\u2019s a tourist […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91,100,107],"tags":[219,300,309,318],"class_list":["post-684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clicking-away","category-on-the-street","category-tokyo","tag-market","tag-things-to-do-in-tokyo","tag-travel","tag-wholesale-fish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highheelgourmet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highheelgourmet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highheelgourmet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highheelgourmet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highheelgourmet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.highheelgourmet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highheelgourmet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highheelgourmet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highheelgourmet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highheelgourmet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}