It Was The Largest Fish Market In The World,

now moved and closed,

 in October 2018 when we made a post about the move, the site has now been visited a team of designers that have created an immersive artwork exploring what was once the world’s largest fish market, using thousands of archival photographs,

the artwork, titled Memories of Tsukiji, is the work of three artists: Ruben Fro, Cody Ellingham, and SJF, viewing the work it is not unlike footage exploring underwater shipwrecks, 

the artwork can be fully appreciated at an exhibition in Tokyo this weekend. Memories of Tsukiji is being shown at ARTnSHELTER, a small art hotel and gallery near Samezu Station, through December 8, 2019 (11am – 8pm). Admission is 1500 yen with tickets available at the door, the video is made using photogrammetry and point cloud technology to scan photos and videos to create the work, what a task it must have been to link all of those still photographs in to a continuous video. 

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and you thought fish were fun!

 but not so for these guys, as the end of an era draws near, 

 last weekend will forever be known as The Great Fish Market Migration of 2018, at least that’s what some are calling it,

on the afternoon of October 6, 2018, Tokyo's Tsukiji Fish Market, held its final tuna auction and the market was shuttered, 

a total of 2600 motorized carts and forklifts had to be driven to the new market, so at 5 am on October 7, before the sun rose, police closed off public roads and the carts and forklifts set off on their great migration, traveling at a breakneck speed of just under 10 mph. relocating all their supplies and equipment 2.3 km (1.4 mi) away, before the new market opens for business on October 11,

bad news for many sushi lovers as many sushi shops have closed whilst the supply chain is re-established, but good news for the sushi chefs, they have a holiday! all photos by Mizuho Miyazaki, courtesy Sankei Photo.

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and you thought fish were fun!

the new owner of this fish does, as a publicity stunt this blue fin tuna is, at a price of $1.76 million (₤124,246), this fish is over priced, but the lucky buyer has had so much publicity it was worth it, last year the winning bidder, Kiyoshi Kimura, president of Kiyomura Co., which operates the Sushi-Zanmai restaurant chain, set the old record of $639,854 (₤398,154) 56.4 million yen at the New Year's auction, which tends to attract high bids as a celebratory way to kick off the new year — or get some publicity, the high prices don't necessarily reflect exceptionally high fish quality,

in the year's first auction at Tokyo's sprawling Tsukiji fish market, the 222-kilogramme (489-pound) tuna caught off northeastern Japan sold for 155.4 million yen, said Ryoji Yagi, a market official, in case you are wondering that works out at $3,603 (₤2,242) per pound, what a catch!