South of Ginza on by the Tokyo Bay. Wholesale fish market. Known as Tsukiji. Half circle of hangars by the sea. Narrow alleys. Sixteen hundred stalls. Wet floor. Containers of ice. You do not pay attention for a second and forklift runs you over. Naked neon tubes. Naked bulbs. Early morning. Before sunrise. Yawning. coffee, cigarates. Rubber boots and rubber aprons. And fish. Tons of fish. Octupusses. Eels. Crabs. Shells. Shrimps. Sea stars. Almost five hundred species of sea food in total. 2 000 tonnes every day. And most importantly frozen tunas and cutting of frozen tunnas with fish power saws. Famous morning tuna auction. One fish is between 700 000 and 1 000 000 yen. Depends on quality.
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Coffee and cigarettes
Tunas
Octopusses, shrimps, eels, shells and tonnes of fish
