Tsukiji fish market to be moved between Sept and Oct 2018

Time is money, all these delays just cost the tax payer so much more!

The tax payer has funded the whole thing even the ¥3 million/ billion a month bill to keep the freezers running for the last 6 months. Thankyou Mr Ishihara hope your final days are consumed with remorse and guilt on so many issues. It can't be fixed it was doomed from the start. It's future is a money pit, more tax payers money following more money to fix the unfixable. All avoided by a thing called accountability, people actually doing the job they are paid to do. All for a fish market what a mess.

"Much ado about nothing" shakespeare

A specific date will be discussed

One specific day for the move? That will be something to see

Somebody has done a flip-flop on their stance. It was supposed to take years to properly decontaminate this site.

Somebody has done a flip-flop on their stance. It was supposed to take years to properly decontaminate this site.

Olympics have priority.

Yeah, to hell with everyone's health - there's money being lost! Sickening.

Turning the old Tsukiji into a logistics site.........rather SHORT sighted & it will become a white elephant as it will be likely next to useless after the Olympics.....we have another disaster in the making here folks, seems they just cant stop making them!

It expects that additional safety measures to address soil contamination at the new site will be completed no later than next July.

just like the 14 years of safety checks for Kobe steel.

Toxic chemicals, including benzene up to 100 times the government-set limit, were also detected in groundwater at the new site.

It is physically impossible to clean groundwater. That means not only fish, but fruit and vegetables in Tokyo that move through this market are at risk of contamination.

next to useless after the Olympics

how about doing a course on the value of inner city Tokyo real estate near Ginza.

Koike proves in the end to be just as corrupt as Ishihara. I am completely disappointed. That fish market could have been rebuilt in place and all the years of social, economic, and cultural ties kept in place. No one is going to trust "Toyosu Fish" brand. The place is heavily polluted. The Toyo gas company refused for years to sell to those greed Ishihara politicos on the legitimate grounds that is was polluted. Thus ends yet another unique and world famous and valued Tokyo tradition. What happens to the parking lot after the Olympics, eh? Stay tuned for more of the same cookie cutter banality of another complex of condos and shopping complexes. Yawn. What will the retail area next door be like? This just could have turned out so much better.

Oh, and that photo is truly depressing. A few tiny frozen carcasses, the remanents of a once great fishing industry, down to the last few babies. Not very impressive. Overfishing of the seas may be the ultimate demise of the fish market. Give the seas a rest. Perhaps it will only teem once more with whales, fish, and all once we, the great predators, are gone.