Nicky; So our last day in Japan has started quite early, at 4.30am!!! But we wanted to go to the Tsukiji fish market before we left. It is the biggest fish market in the world and it is where all the local restaurants buy their fish. Because it is a working market technically visitors aren't allowed in but they seem quite used to having tourists wandering around with cameras around their necks - there is even a special entrance for us - and as long as you mind the motorised carts full of fish that go whizzing up and down the aisles the sellers dont mind. I have never seen so many varieties of fish and seafood and in such large quantities before. There were massive polystyrene containers of prawns, crab, eels, oysters, flounder, mullet and
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