Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market closed on Saturday after 83 . It is moving to a new of Tokyo. The market will open on Thursday. Tokyo city closed Tsukiji market for for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics. Market at Tsukiji were sad on Saturday as they closed for the time. One fish worker said: "I'm crying. Today is a sad of goodbyes."
Tsukiji was called the " of Japan". A newspaper described why it was . It wrote: "Tsukiji is a of the food trade, the of Japanese cuisine, and is one of Tokyo's most tourist attractions." It added: "Tsukiji showed "an Tokyo that is...disappearing". Tsukiji's most famous was tuna. One tuna sold for $1.7million in 2013. The of Tsukiji said worked hard at the market, "until the very end".