Tsukiji Fish Market Tuna Auctions and Carving 築地市場 マグロのセリ

See tuna auctions and how they carve and prepare the giant tuna at Japan's largest fish market in Tsukiji, Tokyo. See both frozen and fresh tuna. Photos: http://photoguide.jp/pix/thumbnails.php?album=655

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Travel & Events

Tags:

• japan
• tokyo
• chuo-ku
• tsukiji
• fish
• market
• giant
• tuna
• auctions
• 築地市場
• 魚
• まぐろ

[rich1760]

i understand no one should touch the tune with their dirty hands but they have them laying on a dirty floor...could someone explain why?

[photojpn]

Japan is full of irony and contradictions. Look at it this way, if you had a shiny new black Porsche, would you mind strangers touching it and putting their fingerprints on it?

[photojpn]

It's not jap. It's Japanese, jp, jpn, or jpnse. "Jap" is derogatory.

[JKboi27]

i remember when i went to the fish market near sendai a few years and thought to myself, "thoes giant knives are pretty much katanas" 5:31

[vanpulez]

The area aroud the market most be ground zero for cats.

[malekai777]

@photojpn lol ok

[crazysweetcorn]

3:32 some one like tourist touched the fish ...lol

[Livinginfullenergy]

@lowwenghon

I'm a extremely long term resident here in Japan who is well connected with the industry.. What you are saying is a not actually correct. Many of the markets like the one shown here allow tourists. I occasionally still take pictures myself. However there was an actual incident where that a few drunk fellow (to my shame) Australians ...went in and were kissing the fish... Since then those markets in the upper area are hesitant to allow foreigners in

[bigrasta69]

they look so sexy when there fresh. i really would love to catch one of those. such beautiful fish. and im not one to be against doin this because we have the exact same thing with cattle auctions, sept the difference is those animals are still alive. lol. awesome vid. now i want me a tuna sammich! hahaha.

[gsxaaargh]

me hungry

[Boboua]

@photojpn I think it depends on where you are? Here (in Vancouver, Canada) even all our Japanese teachers (both university and high school level) say Jap class or Jap store. Japanese is abbreviated as Jap here and it's not derogatory.

[handiest1]

Fun to watch, they seem so careful when cutting. I know some tuna is either extinct or close to it, is it Yellow Fin? Don't some big ones sell for loke 12K US or am I wrong, wing wong.

[BornOnThe1stOfApril]

@photojpn I think I'd mind them wiping their feet on it a little more. A car doesn't quite work as a metaphor because it does actually roll, I'd mind someone touching my toothbrush, but I'd be more upset if they slid it around on the floor.