Is There Life After Relocation? The Future of Tsukiji Fish Market

Tourists sometimes wait three hours to be seated at one of the famed sushi shops in Uogashi Yokochō, the retail section of Tsukiji’s Inner Market. These restaurants will be moving to Toyosu in November along with the market’s wholesale operations.

A new fish market at Tsukiji offers hard-to-find local delicacies shipped directly from fisheries all over the country.

The new Tsukiji Uogashi wholesale fish market, currently under construction, is scheduled to open in October 2016.

Kawamoto Daigo of Jiji Press has been writing about Tsukiji for 25 years.