|
Takako Arai's earliest memories are of Tsukiji, playing hide-and-seek with her brother in the concrete maze of Tokyo's sprawling fish market. Years later, she now runs the family's seafood stall that sells mackerel and yellowfin tuna. Arai and hundreds of other fish traders are reluctantly packing up and preparing to leave Tsukiji this week for a gleaming new $5 billion market on reclaimed land farther from central Tokyo. “I feel torn. I grew up here and I feel like we're losing so much of our history by leaving this place”, said Arai, 45. The 83-year-old market, a popular tourist attraction, is a warren of shops and warehouses where small turret trucks zip around laden with ice-filled boxes of fish. But city officials say it has become dilapidated and unsanitary. Here: A wholesaler takes a break after trading ends at the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo, Japan, September 27, 2018. (Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters)
|
