On Tuesday morning of Golden week, 5 of us headed to the Tsukiji fish market-- the biggest fish market in the world. To catch some of the action, we wanted to be there early enough to see the tuna auction (in the worlds of the hostel night manager, "it's kind of a big deal"). So we got up early and stumbled onto the subway to go see some fish.
We managed to just miss the tuna auction, but still got to see them be carted around and sawed open. The market is open to tourists, but the actual auction not, and apparently soon they will be limiting all access to certain hours for tourists. It makes a lot of sense-- the place is a bit of organized chaos with carts zooming around, being loaded with fish and pulled by people, in a maze of stalls. The general feeling from the people working there was that they weren't hugely impressed with our presense, but they would tolerate it.
After enjoying nearly being run over, seeing a man gut a fish and another man saw at a fish, Maeve and I went out for some nice sashimi breakfast with miso soup and clams on the side. Then we went back to the hostel and back to bed.
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