Nijo Market
Open-air fish market of crab, sea urchin and salmon stalls rebuilt by local fishmongers after an early twentieth-century fire.
This guide to Nijo Market in Sapporo starts with thirteen fishermen from Ishikari Bay who banded into a rough cooperative of fish stalls on the Sosei River in the early Meiji era. It follows the fire that swept through that wooden fish town in nineteen-oh-two, and how the fish sellers themselves, not any company or government office, rebuilt it stall by stall on the river's east side. You'll hear about Kondo Noboru Shoten, a shop still trading today that has stood since nineteen twenty-two, barely two decades after the fire. Look past the crab legs and sea urchin trays in front of you to the ground itself.
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