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Tsukiji as seen from Shiodome, 2018. Tsukiji Market (築地市場, Tsukiji shijō) is a major tourist attraction for both domestic and overseas visitors in Tokyo. [1] Located in Tsukiji in central Tokyo between the Sumida River and the upmarket Ginza shopping district, the area contains retail markets, restaurants, and associated restaurant supply stores.
The move to Toyosu Market was planned to have taken place in November 2016, in preparation for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. [11] Part of the plan was to retain a retail market, roughly a quarter of the current operation, in Tsukiji. [12] On 31 August 2016, the Tsukiji fish market move was postponed. [13]
While the inner market moved in October 2018 to the new Toyosu Market, the many small neighborhood restaurants, restaurant supply stores and retail operations in the outer market have remained and act as a major culinary tourist destination. Tsukiji was the largest fish market in the world handling more than 2000 tons of 450 types of seafood daily.
The site of Tokyo’s famed Tsukiji fish market, left empty after it was razed six years ago, will be replaced by a scenic waterfront stadium and glistening skyscrapers according to plans for its ...
At 408,000 m 2 (4,391,675 sq ft), Toyosu Market is almost twice the size of the old Tsukiji fish market. Unlike the previous Tsukiji fish market, the public cannot attend the auction at floor level among buyers. Instead, visitors can watch the market from a second floor viewing deck or, upon registration, from a room at the same level separated ...
Tsukiji Hongan-ji. Shintomichō Station (Tokyo Metro Yurakucho Line) (approximately 2 minutes' walk); The station is located in the Tsukiji neighbourhood of Chūō, Tokyo.Only a few blocks south of the station (about 150 m) lies Tsukiji fish market, the largest seafood market in the world. [3]
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Namiyoke Inari Shrine (波除稲荷神社, Namiyoke inari-jinja) is a Shinto shrine located in Tsukiji, Chūō, Tokyo. It is an Inari shrine that was built on the water's edge when this part of Tokyo (then Edo) was created from landfill after the Great Fire of Meireki in 1657. The name of the shrine literally means "protection from waves."