Waking up at 3:45am is always hard, especially after hanging out with the boys. But any gaijin is capable of doing it if they know that they get to go to Tsukiji fish market: largest fish market in the world, and supplier of sushi to most of central Japan. We went with Mike and Dan two weeks back and we decided to take Regis there this morning, as he is heading back to France in a few weeks.
You could say that Tsukiji is in my blood. My dad was probably the gaijin who visited the fish market most frequently in all of Tokyo during his five years working here. I am sure if he showed up there today all the old-timers would recognize him. I went with Bryce a few times and was not really in to it back in the late 90's, but now that I am an adult, I really can see why he was so excited by it. Acres upon acres of exotic fish, shellfish, crustaceans, and seaweed species you've never seen before...most of it is alive and crawling, squirming, and squirting. Giant tuna being auctioned in giant hangar-like rooms; one section for frozen tuna from the Atlantic, Indian and Arctic Oceans, and the other for fresh tuna caught close to Japan. Most of the tuna are the size of deer and have their tails sliced off so the whole-salers can sample the meat with their picks and figure out what kind of a price they want to offer.
Regis, in his usual magical way, was able to capture the moments we all shared this morning. Brendan and his friend Julie (visiting from Korea) came along and we all had sushi for breakfast when we were done. Dan and Mike will want to watch the video, as we followed basically the same route that we did two weeks back.
ENJOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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