Compléter 1014fish2Version en ligne harder gap fill par John E 1 Olympics auctioneer history famous soul gradually chairman newspaper seafood planners market product cuisine popular Tokyo's world - Tsukiji fish market has closed after 83 years of trading . It shut permanently at noon on Saturday , bringing an end to its long of trading in all kinds of fish . The is being moved to a new site in the Toyosu area of Tokyo . The new market will start operating on Thursday . City in Tokyo made the decision to close the market at Tsukiji because they wanted to build a parking lot for the Tokyo and Paralympics , which will take place in 2020 . Market traders at Tsukiji were sad on Saturday as they finally shut up shop . One seafood , Hisao Ishii , said : " I'm almost crying . Today is a sad day of goodbyes . " Tsukiji fish market was known as the " kitchen of Japan " . Britain's Financial Times described how important the market was . It wrote : " Tsukiji is a symbol of the global food trade , the home of Japanese , and is one of Tokyo's most tourist attractions . " It added that the atmosphere at Tsukiji showed , " an older Tokyo that is disappearing in favor of glittering high - rise towers " . Nearly 500 types of were sold at the market . The most famous sold there was bluefin tuna . One bluefin sold for a record $1 . 7million in 2013 . Hiroyasu Ito , of the Tsukiji Market Association , said : " Everyone was pouring their heart and into their trade until the very end " .
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