The morning of day five started very early as we were all up and out the door by 5:30am en route to the Tsukiji Fish Market. Upon hopping the subway for one stop (we were lazy and didn’t want to walk) we managed to weasel our was onto what appeared to be a tour group which we followed up to the tuna auction. We watched that for a few and then the long walk throughout the market begun. We saw a variety of things from the sea, such as octopus, tuna, eel, crab (in a variety of sizes), lobster, shrimp (also in variety of sizes), sea urchin, squid, blowfish and so much more. We spent hours walking up and down the small aisles seeing anything from preparations (cutting up and filleting) to selling to other
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