Tsukiji fish market to survive on reduced scale after relocation
A shopping mall reminiscent of the Tsukiji fish
market is being planned at the site in Tokyo’s Chuo Ward when the
popular market moves to the Toyosu district in neighboring Koto Ward.
The Chuo Ward government revealed its plans at a meeting Dec. 12 on redeveloping the Tsukiji area and keeping tourist numbers up.
The market’s relocation is expected to be completed by the end of fiscal 2014.
Ward officials said they want to create a marketplace, tentatively called the “Tsukiji new market,” on parking lots of the Tsukiji outer market, an area that currently features many retail shops and restaurants that sell fish, fruit and vegetables at low prices. The outer market is adjacent to the Tsukiji wholesale market.
“With the Tsukiji new market, we hope to retain the functions of today’s Tsukiji market on a reduced scale,” a ward government official said. “We want to differentiate it from the Toyosu market, which will be designed for bulk purchases.”
The Tsukiji new market will accommodate 79 fish shops and 14 vegetable and fruit stores, according to the plans. Store operators will be selected from among traders with at least five years of experience working in the Tsukiji market.
The ward government plans to construct a pair of two-story buildings, part of which has a third floor, on 4,000 square meters of ward-owned land now used for parking.
The ground floors will be split into 93 shop spaces each about 20 square meters in size. The second floors will be used as storehouses and offices for those shops.
The mall's main clients will be restaurant operators and other professionals in the food industry, but the ward also hopes to attract tourists to the area.
The ward plans to start accepting applications from would-be shop operators next spring, and start construction from between autumn and winter.
Work is scheduled for completion in fiscal 2014, and the ward hopes to open the mall a half year before the opening of the relocated fish market.
The ward said it will cover all construction expenses.
2008.3.30相關網站 The Chuo Ward government revealed its plans at a meeting Dec. 12 on redeveloping the Tsukiji area and keeping tourist numbers up.
The market’s relocation is expected to be completed by the end of fiscal 2014.
Ward officials said they want to create a marketplace, tentatively called the “Tsukiji new market,” on parking lots of the Tsukiji outer market, an area that currently features many retail shops and restaurants that sell fish, fruit and vegetables at low prices. The outer market is adjacent to the Tsukiji wholesale market.
“With the Tsukiji new market, we hope to retain the functions of today’s Tsukiji market on a reduced scale,” a ward government official said. “We want to differentiate it from the Toyosu market, which will be designed for bulk purchases.”
The Tsukiji new market will accommodate 79 fish shops and 14 vegetable and fruit stores, according to the plans. Store operators will be selected from among traders with at least five years of experience working in the Tsukiji market.
The ward government plans to construct a pair of two-story buildings, part of which has a third floor, on 4,000 square meters of ward-owned land now used for parking.
The ground floors will be split into 93 shop spaces each about 20 square meters in size. The second floors will be used as storehouses and offices for those shops.
The mall's main clients will be restaurant operators and other professionals in the food industry, but the ward also hopes to attract tourists to the area.
The ward plans to start accepting applications from would-be shop operators next spring, and start construction from between autumn and winter.
Work is scheduled for completion in fiscal 2014, and the ward hopes to open the mall a half year before the opening of the relocated fish market.
The ward said it will cover all construction expenses.
An artist's rendition of the interior of the 'Tsukiji new market' (Provided by the Chuo Ward Office)
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日本筑地魚市場限制遊客來訪
市場內業者認為遊客妨礙他們交易
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這個位於首都東京海濱的批發市場成為了旅遊熱點。遊客可以進場觀看巨大的金槍魚的交易情況。
但是市場管理人員說，遊客拍照時用上閃光燈對參與競標的業者造成騷擾，更有遊客觸摸等待出售的魚。
負責遊客服務的職員表示，在這每天有數以百計金槍魚交易的地方，這對他們營業造成了妨礙。
因此魚市場規定，從4月1日開始，遊客只能從早上5點到6點15分進場觀看交易情況，而且要留在指定的觀察區。
這位職員說，目前市場每天有20到30名遊客到來，外國遊客們只要發現魚兒是來自他們自己的國家時，都會觸摸它們和拍照。
他說，知道遊客們遠道而來，市場實在不願意把他們完全拒諸門外，因此定下了這個參觀時間，把影響減到最低。
在筑地市場，每個交易天都會出售價值約2000萬美元的魚類和其他食品。
金槍魚的拍賣尤其吸引遊客觀看。買家們都可以先用手電筒查看魚的質量，然後參與競標。
2010.11.28
'I am not a number, I am an expensive tuna'
BY AYA NAGATANI STAFF WRITER築地市場
Buyers inspect tuna at the Tsukiji fish market before 5 a.m. on Sept. 27. (Yoshiyuki Suzuki)
An auctioneer takes bids for raw tuna. (Yoshiyuki Suzuki)
An auctioneer calls for bids on frozen tuna. (Yoshiyuki Suzuki)
This is the first in a series of articles on the Tokyo Metropolitan Central Wholesale Market, known as Tsukiji fish market.
* * *
It is early morning and Yuzo Nishida, a veteran auctioneer at Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market, is deciding what number to write on the belly of a tuna. He knows his decision could help decide his company's fortunes for the day.
The meaning of the numbers is simple. They show the order the fish will be auctioned. Lower numbers are generally supposed to indicate the best fish of the day, but Nishida, who has been working in the industry for 28 years, knows it is not quite as simple as that.
No one is chatting as he and his rivals weigh their tactics along the lines of more than 200 tuna.
Five companies serve as auction houses in the market. At dawn, their employees painstakingly set out their fish, ordered strictly according to their class: wild Pacific bluefin tuna, wild Southern bluefin tuna and farmed Pacific bluefin tuna.
Each fish is sprinkled with water and wiped down to show it to its best effect.
"(The quietness) is due to the tense atmosphere. If we can sell one fish (at a high price), we can earn a lot of money," an auction house employee explains.
The auctions all start at the same time at 5:30 a.m. and so the order each auction house chooses to sell its tuna is a complex calculation of the quality of your own fish compared with others.
Which fish will attract the buyers? How will it hold up against rival auction's offerings? Is it good enough to pull in the buyers and boost prices at the auction generally?
The quality of two tunas may be the same, but their prices can be very different depending on the ordering of the auction.
In the end, Nishida, 49, decides not to give his best fish of the day his number one pick.
He paints "1" and "2" in the customary red paint on the belly of two tuna from a company with a strong relationship with his employer, Tohto Suisan Co.
His favorite fish, from Oma in Aomori Prefecture, is given third place.
An employee of a rival auction house scrawls "1" on another fish from Oma, said to be the best of the day.
The bell rings and Oct. 5's auctions are underway. Buyers bunch around the auctioneers. Time seems to speed up. Nishida has started the auction for the third fish within 30 seconds.
A much larger number of buyers raise their hands for the number three fish, compared with the number one pick.
The price jumps, finishing at between 7,000 yen and 8,000 yen per kilogram.
"The price is relatively good," Nishida says with relief.
* * *
It is early morning and Yuzo Nishida, a veteran auctioneer at Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market, is deciding what number to write on the belly of a tuna. He knows his decision could help decide his company's fortunes for the day.
The meaning of the numbers is simple. They show the order the fish will be auctioned. Lower numbers are generally supposed to indicate the best fish of the day, but Nishida, who has been working in the industry for 28 years, knows it is not quite as simple as that.
No one is chatting as he and his rivals weigh their tactics along the lines of more than 200 tuna.
Five companies serve as auction houses in the market. At dawn, their employees painstakingly set out their fish, ordered strictly according to their class: wild Pacific bluefin tuna, wild Southern bluefin tuna and farmed Pacific bluefin tuna.
Each fish is sprinkled with water and wiped down to show it to its best effect.
"(The quietness) is due to the tense atmosphere. If we can sell one fish (at a high price), we can earn a lot of money," an auction house employee explains.
The auctions all start at the same time at 5:30 a.m. and so the order each auction house chooses to sell its tuna is a complex calculation of the quality of your own fish compared with others.
Which fish will attract the buyers? How will it hold up against rival auction's offerings? Is it good enough to pull in the buyers and boost prices at the auction generally?
The quality of two tunas may be the same, but their prices can be very different depending on the ordering of the auction.
In the end, Nishida, 49, decides not to give his best fish of the day his number one pick.
He paints "1" and "2" in the customary red paint on the belly of two tuna from a company with a strong relationship with his employer, Tohto Suisan Co.
His favorite fish, from Oma in Aomori Prefecture, is given third place.
An employee of a rival auction house scrawls "1" on another fish from Oma, said to be the best of the day.
The bell rings and Oct. 5's auctions are underway. Buyers bunch around the auctioneers. Time seems to speed up. Nishida has started the auction for the third fish within 30 seconds.
A much larger number of buyers raise their hands for the number three fish, compared with the number one pick.
The price jumps, finishing at between 7,000 yen and 8,000 yen per kilogram.
"The price is relatively good," Nishida says with relief.
Not an eye socket or a jawbone is wasted
2011/03/10
Heads of tuna at Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo's Chuo Ward (Ikuro Aiba)
This is the ninth in a series on the Tokyo Metropolitan Central Wholesale Market, known as Tsukiji fish market.
* * *
At 10 a.m., when the business at Tsukiji fish market is almost over, you will often see left-over tuna heads at the back of the wholesalers' shops.
But don't get the idea that they are destined for the garbage tip.
The Tsukiji traders insist that every part of a fish head can be cooked and eaten.
The flesh behind the eyeball, for instance, makes a good soup if the foam is skimmed off, say the traders. Add some seasoning and nosh it down with "enokidake" mushrooms, they suggest.
The top of the head, called "noten," can be eaten as sashimi (raw fish) if it is fatty or minced and mixed with chopped leeks.
Tuna cheek can make a tasty char-grilled steak, and the skin and jaw can be boiled and eaten with "ponzu" (soy sauce with citrus juice).
Parts of the head are also used as ingredients for cosmetics and sausages, according to the traders.
As you see a detached eyeball or noten, you can also savor a certain feeling of intimacy with the fish that is quite different from seeing chunks of flesh sold in kilograms to buyers from the sushi restaurants.
"There is no part that goes to waste in tuna," says a wholesaler.
* * *
At 10 a.m., when the business at Tsukiji fish market is almost over, you will often see left-over tuna heads at the back of the wholesalers' shops.
But don't get the idea that they are destined for the garbage tip.
The Tsukiji traders insist that every part of a fish head can be cooked and eaten.
The flesh behind the eyeball, for instance, makes a good soup if the foam is skimmed off, say the traders. Add some seasoning and nosh it down with "enokidake" mushrooms, they suggest.
The top of the head, called "noten," can be eaten as sashimi (raw fish) if it is fatty or minced and mixed with chopped leeks.
Tuna cheek can make a tasty char-grilled steak, and the skin and jaw can be boiled and eaten with "ponzu" (soy sauce with citrus juice).
Parts of the head are also used as ingredients for cosmetics and sausages, according to the traders.
As you see a detached eyeball or noten, you can also savor a certain feeling of intimacy with the fish that is quite different from seeing chunks of flesh sold in kilograms to buyers from the sushi restaurants.
"There is no part that goes to waste in tuna," says a wholesaler.
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Ponzu
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The element pon arrived in the Japanese language from the Dutch word pons (which in turn is derived from and shares the meaning of the English word punch).[1] Su (酢) is Japanese for vinegar, and hence the name literally means "pon vinegar".
Ponzu is made by simmering mirin, rice vinegar, katsuobushi flakes, and seaweed (konbu) over medium heat. The liquid is then cooled, strained to remove the katsuobushi flakes, and finally the juice of one or more of the following citrus fruits is added: yuzu, sudachi, daidai, kabosu, or lemon.
Commercial ponzu is generally sold in glass bottles, which may have some sediment.
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