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Photo gallery: Tsukiji Market, one week on - Time Out Tokyo
www.timeout.jp/en/tokyo/feature/2602/Photo-gallery-Tsukiji-Market-one-week-on, posted 2011 by peter in food japan jpquake msm tokyo
Over in the vegetable section, boxes of fresh tomatoes, daikon, cabbages and citrus fruit are stacked high, awaiting delivery. At the shops surrounding the main market, meanwhile, there's a real abundance of food on sale. The contrast with the 'trapped and starving in post-tsunami Tokyo' stories doing the rounds in tabloid newspapers overseas is pretty striking: if this is scarcity, we'd be interested to know what excess looks like.