10% of Tsukiji Traders To Quit Due To Move According To Poll

Above, a trader at the Tsukiji Fish Market. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

A recent survey of traders working at the famed Tsukiji Fish Market found that 10% of them will be discontinuing their businesses rather than moving to the new facility.

According to The Japan Times:

More than 10 percent of traders working at Tokyo’s famed Tsukiji fish market plan to give up their business because they cannot move to its new site in the Toyosu district partly due to the moving costs. 

With the facilities aging, the market, currently in Tokyo’s Chuo Ward, is slated to be moved in fiscal 2015 to the Toyosu district in Koto Ward.

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