I went to Tsukiji Market, Tokyo's world famous fish market at 5:00 one morning. Most of Tokyo's seafood transits through this market full of hardworking people. It is a crazy hustle and bustle of men running around everywhere pushing carts and driving flatbed trucks with fish on them. (One worker gave us a ride on his cart when we arrived at the market.) Everyone is wearing galoshes and shouting and smoking cigarettes. There are big insulated styrofoam boxes everywhere and it is chaotic and loud. Potential buyers are checking out the fish laid out on pallets and we saw an auctioneer start a tuna auction. (See video below--it's not great, but you'll get the idea.) The tuna were enormous. Every kind of seafood you can imagine was available.
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