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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.
JAPAN
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.
JAPAN / 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.
JAPAN
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
JAPAN
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.
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 12, 2020
Koike’s first term as Tokyo governor: Eventful, but little to show for it
Each challenge has revealed a new facet of her political persona, and they will also serve as benchmarks against which voters examine her record.
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
JAPAN
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.
JAPAN
Oct 1, 2019
Toyosu fish market to add noise in bid to liven up tuna auction experience for visitors
Visitors to the Toyosu fish market in Tokyo's Koto Ward will soon be able to experience the vibrant atmosphere of the tuna auctions by hearing the action live while watching the popular events from an upper-level corridor.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Sep 7, 2019
Cook Japan Project: World-class chefs flock to Japan for a year of pop-up dinners
Cook Japan Project is a 10-month rotating chef's residency program, hosting over 30 culinary stars from around the world to foster cultural exchange and expose Japanese diners to the wider culinary world.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / Food Sustainability in Japan
Jul 13, 2019
Mottainai Action wants no seafood to go to waste
At Mottainai Project Uoharu's Yurakucho and Nakameguro bars, the daily menu relies on 'unwanted' seafood from wholesale fish markets in order to combat food waste and promote food sustainability.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 18, 2019
Koike presents vision for Tokyo, stressing importance of ties with Osaka ahead of Olympics and Expo
Gov. Yuriko Koike spoke to the press Monday about her plans to repurpose the former site of the Tsukiji fish market and strengthen ties with Osaka prior to the 2020 Olympic Games and 2025 World Expo, setting out her ambitions for ongoing development of the capital.
JAPAN
Jan 15, 2019
Observation deck for Tokyo's renowned tuna auctions opens to public at new Toyosu market site
Visitors formed long lines before daybreak on Tuesday to catch a glimpse of Tokyo's renowned tuna auctions — now at the Toyosu wholesale fish market — as an observation deck opened to the public for the first time since the relocation from Tsukiji in October.
JAPAN
Jan 1, 2019
Top Japan news of 2018
The Japan Times newsroom selected the following domestic news stories as the most important of 2018.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Nov 3, 2018
Toridoki: Old-school yakitori near new Toyosu market
There are plenty of reasons to mourn the closure of Tsukiji's legendary wholesale market, and many more to bemoan its successor in Toyosu. Not least is the dearth of good, established restaurants out on that sterile landfill location.

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