Anyway, this morning we got up early and tramped accross town to witness the biggest fish market in the world, the Tsukiji market. We dodged trucks, forklifts and mad carts to get into the market then we were dodging fishguts and sea water. If only I'd followed local fashion and bought a pair of stylish rubber boots, I'd have been happier.I never knew that so many fish could be pulled out of the sea in one night, it was really something.
There were stalls upon stalls of freshly caught fish, mollusk, and crustacean all waiting to be bought by local restaurants and stores. There was even a tuna auction where a whole tuna can go for ￥1,ooo,ooo ($10,000)! I saw a man cutting up a tuna with a knife that was at least 4 feet long and another that was chopping frozen fish with a circular saw. There were so many different sizes of shrimp, from krill to almost the size of a lobster. I'm amazed that the ocean still contains any fish with our appetite for seafood. I actually hesitated before ordering fish today,
but it's nearly impossible to order a seafood-free meal in Tokyo.Later we went to see the exhibits at the NTT Intercommunications Center. It was an interesting blend of technology and art, some of which was interractive. For example, there was a room where a 3-D projection was controlled by a joystick and you could zoom in and out of the projection as well as navigate through it. There was an "inorganic" creature that resembles and acts like a living thing but survives on the energy generated by urban environments (it was a robot that resembled a huge insect/plant and had lifelike movements, and an interesting fictional description). There was also a room with a visual gravity-field display representing the people in the room and showing the gravitational field around each one. Anyway, it was cool. The next couple of days should be pretty laid back since we're gearing down to go home. I'll have more time so I'll post again tomorrow.
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Mmmmmm seafood!
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