Tokyo's Tsukiji Fish Market is plenty big but the locals don't like tourist much now as there are too many and some of the foreign tourists have seriously misbehaved. The central wholesale market in Kyoto offers most of the same sites, but on a more friendly and humane scale. This market it one of the undiscovered foodie travel destinations in Japan.
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The world-famous fish market Tsukiji (officially called the Tokyo Metropolitan Central Wholesale Market) is in danger of being destroyed by the order of Shintaro Ishihara, Governor of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government (TMG). The TMG is planning to relocate the Tsukiji Market to an old gas works site at Toyosu, situated several kilometers southwards, for unfathomable reasons despite the fact that this land is highly polluted with multiple contaminants.
It would appear the Tokyo Governor, Shintaro Ishihara is more concerned about winning the bid for the 2016 Olympic Games than he his about the cultural history of the city.
There is a campaign to stop this!
more on my blog post!