Friday, February 03, 2006

Morning at the Fish Market

A must do in Tokyo is to experience the enormous fish market between 5:00a and 8:00a for the morning sale of fresh fish. We got there about 6:00a, a little later than planned but in plenty of time to see an incredible amount and variety of fish - a lot of which were still alive - and every stall was busy preparing fish for sale today. A statistic we just read was that Japan consumes 30% of the tuna caught globally - believable when walking through the fish market.

The photo of the room of tuna (and me) was probably wall-to-wall fish at 5:00a, but we got the full impact anyway. The shell fish are huge, as the photo shows. I thought the steaming brass teapot alongside the fish and men in boots was an interesting shot.