So last night at about 1:00am I set an alarm to get up at 6am… We wanted to go to the Tokyo fish market or Tsukiji fish market which is busiest between 5am and 8am.. and is pretty much closed by 11am. It is also the largest wholesale fish market in the world, and is one of the largest wholesale food markets of any time…

I woke up to the alarm even though I had my ear plugs in… Ryan didn’t… but being so tired I just turned it off and went go to back to sleep, thankfully for Ryans snoring that didn’t happen – although apparently I was last night as well.. Haha!

Anyways 3 coffees later as the sun was still rising we arrived there… it was huge and you have to constantly watch out for people rushing past or worse forklifts or these other little crate transports that are everywhere.. and they fly around pretty fast!

There were soo many fish we’d never seen before some as big as a bar fridge (which they cut with a ban saw!).. oysters in massive bags the size of a 10L bucket.. some fish were still alive in containers of water… some crabs whose body alone was nearly the size of two hand spans!

The strangest thing though – when we were in the produce market next to the fish market we got the strongest whiff of vegemite!? We looked around and couldn’t work out where it was coming from… not long after I sampled a vegetable which sliced looks like a carrot, but looks nothing like one otherwise… it was crunchy like a carrot, but had a sweat pickle taste that turned in to a distinct taste of Vegemite!!!! I seriously need to try find out what it is so I can hunt it down back home to show you all!!

Didn’t see any whale meat though, I presume they sell it behind closed doors away from the Australian ;)