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Wellington boots society

Again, Tokyo sets itself to the top of the world, namely at the place, where the wellington boots society is moving around: the fish market. If you want to see this spectacle, you have to get up very early, otherwise the main activities are finished. Like on every other big market in the world. If you arrive at the fish market in Tokyo, you firstly don't see the fish and other animals from the sea, but the mass processing of ice. Big ice cubes arrive, the are cut with a saw and processed to ice cubes of normal size. Furthermore, there are huge facilities to put ice cubes into the big boxes of the customers.

Picture Source: Own exposure. Processed and consumed in large amounts: ice.

If you found through the narrow corridors of the hall, you reach the core of the fish market: the auction. You have to experience it by yourself what is going on at this place, the way how merchants ballyhoo their fish to increase the price is really unique. The merchants have a small stool, a bell, some lists and pencils. At first, they ring the bell to get some regard, then he shouts out the fish, which the auction is concerning on and the public sale starts. The customers' standard equipment is a flashlight to look at the fish very detailed and an ice axe to lift the (sometimes frozen) fish on his carriage after winning an auction. At least, you need two or three men to lift the fish.

Picture Source: Own exposure. The spectacle: the fish auction.

If you won an auction, the fish is brought to the stand in this huge hall. There, the processing begins, fishes are cut into pieces with a saw and so on. The result can be seen in the following pictures.

Picture Sources: Own exposures. Processing and results.

The bereaved are the fish itself, of course. The following picture shows a frozen fish.

Picture Source: Own exposure. Definitely overcooled: the fish.