The buyer, Onodera Group, bought the 608-pound tuna Sunday at Toyosu Fish Market in Tokyo. The company shared the news across its social media profiles and in a news release. The buyer said online ...

Tokyo (Japan), Jan 24 (ANI): Toyosu market in Tokyo is where the famous Tuna auction is held. Sound of bell in the early morning declares the start of auction. Since the market moved from Tsukiji ...

Then-Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara decided on a plan to relocate the market to the Toyosu district 2.3 kilometers away in1999. The planned site was previously used by a gas plant. It is about ...

However, aging infrastructure compelled the Tokyo Metropolitan government to decide in 2001 to relocate the wholesale market. Toyosu was chosen for the new facilities. The government later ...

A Japanese government source said the thinking is to turn a fishing port on one of the Natuna islands into “a mini Toyosu fish market,” the facility located in Tokyo that took over operations ...

Originally planned to open in 2019 before the Tokyo Olympics and along with the fish market's relocation from Tsukiji, Toyosu's outer section is about four years behind schedule due to planning ...

Even before Tokyo’s international wholesale fish market – the largest in the world – moved to the Toyosu district in 2018, the Tsukiji Outer Market was a popular place to buy a variety of ...