Tsukiji Outer Market remains a dense food-shopping district after the central wholesale fish market moved to Toyosu in 2018. Its small shops and prepared-food counters continue a neighborhood trade shaped by the market that once stood beside them.
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The narrow streets of Tsukiji Outer Market still smell of seafood, broth, and grilled food, but the wholesale market that made the district famous has moved. After the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake destroyed the Nihonbashi fish market, wholesale operations relocated to Tsukiji and opened in 1935.
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- The wholesale market began operating in Tsukiji in 1935.
- The central wholesale market moved to Toyosu in 2018.
- Tsukiji Outer Market shops remained after that relocation.
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