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A shop staff looks on from a shop at the Tsukiji Outer Market in Tokyo on August 22, 2025. FILE PHOTO/Agence France-Presse ...

Tourists pack the Tsukiji Outer Market in the year-end New Year's frenzy but they are being asked to stay away this year ...

The early stages of a mammoth redevelopment project are under way on what is considered “the last prime plot of land in ...

Tokyo’s Tsukiji fish market was once the largest fish market on Earth. It was a bustling distribution center that supplied Tokyo with most of its seafood. Established in 1935 after the Great Kanto ...

TOKYO – After years of delays Tokyo's 80-year-old Tsukiji fish market is closing on Saturday to move to a more modern facility on reclaimed industrial land in Tokyo Bay. The new, 569 billion yen ($5 ...

Just as bars are closing in the Ginza, in Tokyo’s early morning hours, another city landmark is livening up. Blocks away from the glitzy shopping district sits the Tsukiji fish market. Tsukiji is not ...

TOKYO (AP) — Tokyo’s huge, and hugely popular, Tsukiji fish market won’t be destroyed but will be closed for up to five years while it is modernized and turned into a “food theme park,” the capital’s ...

As historic Tsukiji market closes, fishmongers mourn. 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.

TOKYO -- One of Japan's most popular tourist destinations is no more. Tokyo's legendary Tsukiji fish market, one of the largest in the world, has closed for good, with hundreds of merchants heading ...

Prospective buyers bid vegetable during the first auction at the newly opened fruit and vegetable wholesale part of Toyosu Market, in Tokyo (Oct. 11, 2018). Credit: AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko The aging ...

The Tsukiji Outer Market in Tokyo's Chuo Ward, a popular tourist spot crowded with food shoppers and inbound visitors, has ...