A Tsukiji fish-paste shop.
A Tsukiji Outer Market specialist in oden ingredients, fish-paste and marinated fish. Choose from the counter, finish at your table.
Morning light slips through the small shopfront. At the hour when steam rises, kamaboko, hanpen, chikuwa and satsuma-age line the counter. Fish cured in miso or sake lees rests slowly before it appears out front. In the quiet moment before closing, the hands picking oden ingredients move in the day's rhythm..
The counter A steaming
A steaming
Tsukiji counter.
Between the morning market and the afternoon close. At the hour the steam rises, the day's fish cakes and oden ingredients line the counter. Choose, take them home — the rest happens in your own pot.