A 612-pound tuna sold for a record $3 million at Tokyo’s new fish market, but it’s got nothing on the legendary market it replaced. I visited it before it closed.

• Last week, restaurateur Kiyoshi Kimura paid a record-breaking $3.1 million for the first tuna sold in the new year at Tokyo’s brand new Toyosu Fish Market, which opened last October.
• Toyosu replaced the legendary Tsukiji Fish Market, which was famous for decades as the best place in the world to get fresh fish.
• I took a walk through Tsukiji Market two years ago before it closed to see what it was like in action. It was a crazy place not meant for tourists.

Tokyo’s Tsukiji Fish Market was once known as the “Wall Street of fish.”

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Source : BusinessInsider.Com