Just A Car Guy: the great Tokyo fish market migration from the 57 acre Tsukiji Fish Market to the twice as large Toyosu location, 1.4 mi away.

Monday, January 14, 2019

the great Tokyo fish market migration from the 57 acre Tsukiji Fish Market to the twice as large Toyosu location, 1.4 mi away.

in the 1st week of Oct 2018, there was an end of an era, and a change in a neighborhood. An 83 year old fishmarket was closed, and all the stalls, businesses, and small dock tractors were moved to the new fish market that cost 5 billion dollars

More to my focus, all 2600 motorized carts and forklifts went across the bridge. Police closed off public roads for just the carts and forklifts, which only move at about 8 mph.

One problem, as something always pops up unexpectedly, was the massive clean up of the new location, as it had been a gas plant, and the soil had to be decontaminated before the move. A 2 year delay

So why go to the trouble? The new location is twice the size, and all the equipment, freezer rooms, ice makers, etc, are impeccably sanitized and brand new state of the art equipped at the new location will allow the 14.5 million dollar a day seafood location to grow and thrive

What happened to cause a move? Well, in addition to the newer, better, cleaner location of twice the size, the old location is due to be leveled and redeveloped as a parking lot to use during the 2020 Olympics. The thousands of rats might even get eliminated! They won't be getting into the new location, it was built specifically to be sealed for air conditioning, and to keep out dust, birds, and rats.

The outer market that grew up around the fish market, the ice cream, knives, coffee and seaweed shops, they remain. But the immense warehouses that had been the fish market are gone and a transport depot will be installed for the upcoming Olympics... as it's within walking distance of the Ginza shopping district in downtown Tokyo

After the Olympics, it could become an amusement park, a casino, a shopping mall, or all of those and more

Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo was - until it closed on October 6 - the world's largest wholesale enterprise of its kind.

Built on reclaimed land in the city's bay area, the Japanese capital’s municipality decided to move the existing fish market to this new location after the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923.