If you ever visit Tokyo no mater what else you want to see or visit you have to spend one morning checking out the fish market on the coast. Get up at 5:30, catch the first train and see the largest (think 3-4 American football fields), cleanest (the smell is actually pleasing) and busiest market you have ever seen. It makes Shinjuku train station look slow and boring.

I was told that they move more seafood in that market then anywhere else in the world and it is a claim that is easily believable. Tuna the size of bathtubs, Octopus the color of blood. Entire tables covered with worms moving so much that you lose your sense of depth looking at it. Sea Urchins the size of Volleyballs. Regardless of your age or gag sensitivity this is something you can’t miss. If I had to see only one thing in all of Tokyo it would be this.