Tokyo to build complex with convention center at Tsukiji market site

How about selling the land to the highest bidder and giving the money back to the tax payers.

There were enough meetings about government run fish markets (fat lot of good), so I don’t think there is a need for more.

I've always been disappointed by the parsimony and constricted vision of Japan's urban planners, which borders on the goofy. What does Tokyo need? What can be built in Tsukiji to benefit the infrastructure for tourism and commerce? I would suggest a new, underground shinkansen station linking Narita and Haneda Airports with extensions to link them with other parts of the nationwide shinkansen network --- thereby creating a logical, convenient and modern air-rail system instead of the current piecemeal setup currently in force.

I think Tokyo would like a casino there.

No, by definition, access to the so-called "integrated resorts" has to be more restricted, which is why the proposed casinos are situated on islands, like Odaiba or in Osaka Bay, etc. Tsukiji is too close to the city's hoi polloi.

How about a new subway station called Tsukiji Gateway?

A Botanical Garden with benches dedicated to profigating plant species from around the world. Huge greenhouses. School trips, a place of tranquility in a bubble of mass craziness.

I agree with fxgai. Stop wasting tax payers money! We all know that billions will go into the pockets of politicians and executives. Sell the land and put the money into emergency relief and Fukushima clean up. (We all know government has 51% control of it.)

Why not open bids up for an elementary school, Abe can literally give the land away at under market prices, pocket some of it and his wife can be honorary principal? Oh wait, that ship has already sailed.