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A batch of saury that fetched a record high price at Tokyo's Toyosu wholesale market on Friday morning
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Jul 10, 2026
Japan¡¯s first saury of the season fetch record price
The batch of saury, totaling about 30 kg, was landed at Kushiro Port in Hokkaido on Thursday and arrived at Tokyo¡¯s Toyosu market the following day.
Rina Takahashi of Kitani Suisan fillets a tuna at the Tsukiji Outer Market in Tokyo's Chuo Ward, on June 25.
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Jul 6, 2026
Women increasingly active in Japan¡¯s fish markets
The development is part of the country¡¯s shift toward a more gender-neutral society.
Visitors can explore a life-size version of Carl Fredricksen¡¯s house in the ¡°Mundo Pixar Experience¡± exhibition¡¯s ¡°Up¡± area.
CULTURE / Film
May 15, 2026
¡®Mundo Pixar Experience¡¯ feels like a homecoming in Tokyo
Packed crowds and long queues aside, the sprawling exhibition succeeds by transforming animated nostalgia into a tactile experience.
Kiyoshi Kimura, president of Kiyomura, the operator of sushi chain Sushizanmai, shows off a bluefin tuna that he paid ?510.3 million ($3.2 million) for at an auction in Tokyo's Toyosu market on Monday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 5, 2026
¡®Tuna King¡¯ pays record ?510.3 million for bluefin at Tokyo auction
Sushizanmai boss Kiyoshi Kimura paid the top price at the annual new year auction for a 243-kilogram fish caught off Japan¡¯s northern coast.
A poster put up in Tokyo's Chuo Ward asks tour operators to refrain from guiding tourists to the Tsukiji Outer Market toward the end of the year to avoid overcrowding.
51³Ô¹ÏÍø / Society
Dec 15, 2025
Tsukiji market urges tourists to avoid visiting at year-end to ease congestion
The Toyosu Senkyaku Banrai tourist facility, meanwhile, welcomes tourists throughout the year-end and New Year holiday season.
Sauries are landed in the port of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, on Tuesday, the first catch of the season for the port this year. A wholesaler official said many sauries caught in late August are 1.4 times as big as last year's.
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Sep 4, 2025
After years of poor catches, large sauries make a return
Mainly landed in Hokkaido and the Tohoku region, the fish is a delicacy enjoyed in Japan during summer and autumn.
The arrival of this season's first batch of saury was more than a month earlier than last year.
BUSINESS
Jul 11, 2025
Season¡¯s first batch of saury sells for ?300,000 per kilogram at Toyosu market
It was the first time in three years that saury was landed in July, but there were only 50 kilograms compared to last year¡¯s first arrival, which totaled around 42 tons.
A bluefin tuna from Oma, Aomori Prefecture, was sold for ?207 million during the first auction of the year at Tokyo's Toyosu Fish Market on Sunday.
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Jan 5, 2025
Bluefin tuna fetches ?207 million at Toyosu¡¯s first auction of the year
The bid was around 1.8 times higher than last year¡¯s, and second only in price to 2019¡¯s top catch, which sold for ?333.6 million.
A guest uses chopsticks to grab and taste raw meat from a fin whale at the exhibition and business meeting of domestically produced fin whales hosted by Japan's whaling company Kyodo Senpaku at Tokyo's Toyosu market on Friday.
51³Ô¹ÏÍø / Society
Sep 14, 2024
Hearts, tails and blubber at Japan fin whale tasting
¡°Once young people eat it and they realize it¡¯s good, they will eat it more and more,¡± said Hideki Tokoro, the head of Japan¡¯s main whaling firm.
This season's first batch of saury that fetched a record high price of ?500,000 ($3,400) per kilogram at the Toyosu market in Tokyo.
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Aug 19, 2024
Season¡¯s first saury sell at record ?500,000 at Toyosu market
Some large fish weighing around 140 grams each fetched prices exceeding ?70,000 for one fish.
A total of 65 stores in Toyosu Senkyaku Banrai offer various food and drinks, with many that incorporate fresh ingredients from the Toyosu market.
BUSINESS
Jan 29, 2024
New Edo-inspired venue near Toyosu market offers more than fish
Toyosu Senkyaku Banrai hosts restaurants and an onsen area that uses water sourced from popular hot spring towns in Kanagawa Prefecture.
The most expensive tuna sold at this year's first auction displayed outside Toyosu Market in Tokyo on Friday
BUSINESS
Jan 5, 2024
Tokyo¡¯s top tuna for the new year sells for ?114.2 million
The tuna weighed 238 kilograms and was sold Friday to seafood wholesaler Yamayuki and sushi chain operator Onodera Group.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Dec 11, 2022
Prices surge for bluefin tuna in Japan
The total number of domestic natural bluefin tuna shipped to Tokyo¡¯s Toyosu wholesale market stood at about 220 between Dec. 1 and Friday, down almost 50% from the year-before.
Japan Times
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Sep 5, 2020
Tokyo¡¯s Toyosu fish market, the world¡¯s largest, taking outsized hit from pandemic
Businesses had hoped for more activity after the end of the state of emergency in late May, but big events have remained on hold and restaurants are struggling.
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Jun 12, 2020
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BUSINESS
Jun 6, 2020
Toyosu market to reopen to public on Monday
Like other popular venues in the capital, the food market will clamp down on restaurant lines and overcrowding, and require masks be worn for entry.
BUSINESS
May 17, 2020
Toyosu wholesalers targeting consumers via online sales
Intermediate wholesalers at Tokyo¡¯s Toyosu food market are focusing more on direct online sales to consumers at a time when seafood demand has plunged due to restaurant closures amid the coronavirus pandemic.
LIFE / Lifestyle / Kateigaho International Japan Edition
Feb 29, 2020
Tokyo revealed: To market, to market!
Tokyo boasts an abundance of markets selling regional specialties from all over Japan. Just as fascinating as the diversity of merchandise on offer are the vendors themselves, who have plenty to say about their wares.
BUSINESS
Dec 3, 2019
In divisive move, large-volume fish trade set to be liberalized at Tokyo¡¯s Toyosu market
A divisive deregulation is on the horizon at Tokyo¡¯s Toyosu wholesale food market, with rules that limit large-volume fish purchases to intermediate wholesalers, select major supermarkets and other certified entities expected to be removed in June 2020.
Japan Times
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Oct 11, 2019
Tokyo¡¯s Toyosu fish market still pestered by problems a year after move from Tsukiji
The first anniversary of the costly and contentious relocation of Tokyo¡¯s famous Tsukiji fish market from Chuo Ward to the site of a former gas plant 2 km south along Tokyo Bay was commemorated by a tuna auction Friday morning.
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