Fish Market Tsukiji Outer Market
Maze-like lanes of century-old shops selling fresh-sliced tuna, sushi knives, and street food.
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This guide to the Tsukiji Outer Market traces its origins to 1590, when Tokugawa Ieyasu shipped in fishermen from Osaka to feed his new castle, and the leftover catch that got sold off near a bridge called Nihonbashi. It follows that dockside market through three centuries, into the Great Kanto earthquake of 1923 that leveled it, and the officials who saw a chance to rebuild it on reclaimed land in Tsukiji. Listen for the knife shops and tuna slicers that have kept these lanes going for over eighty years.
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