maddoc
... likes film again.
... a very popular tourist spot and interesting place for photographers is off limits from today for a certain period of time as I have just learned from the news in the Japanese TV. 
They stopped permit to the auction area because of to much misbehavior of foreign visitors recently, who also refused to follow the orders of the guards. Hopefully it will be only for a short time...
They stopped permit to the auction area because of to much misbehavior of foreign visitors recently, who also refused to follow the orders of the guards. Hopefully it will be only for a short time...
Phantomas
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Damn tourists always ruin it for everyone.
John Lawrence
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A shame that a few have spoiled it for the rest. Fish markets are always great places to photograph in.
parsec1
parsec1
There's always 'Harry Keery'.
maddoc
... likes film again.
A Japanese TV team actually had documented what had happened, while one guy was kissing a bonito being auctioned (to impress his friends), two other guys had big fun riding on one of the small carts that transport the boxes with fish and when asked by the guards to immediately get off the carts and leave they made some jokes about the guards and simply continued ... :bang:
furcafe
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I couldn't wake up early enough to go on my vacation a few months ago. FYI, my understanding is that they're moving the market to a more suburban location, anyway.
reuno
Log out, go shoot.
I was lucky enough to go to this place this summer. Not that photog or even tourist friendly place !
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oftheherd
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Too bad. There must have been other problems. One incident surely wouldn't have caused that reaction. My experience in Korea was that if you were a photog in Korea and took photos back, you got more acceptance. Tourists likely don't have that option, but they do have an option to act decently.
oftheherd
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Interesting shots. What are those specimens?
Nh3
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Where are the whales...?
sniki
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sniki
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raid
Dad Photographer
Will the cameras used there also smell like fish for a while?
icebear
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Tsukiji is a seafood (food) lovers paradise. When I visited about 8 years ago they were already talking about closing it (tourist access that is). You could just walk in there and be careful not to stand in the way otherwise you'd be run over by the carts transporting the fish boxed pile high through the small passage ways.
The behaviour is examplifying the disrespect of (some) tourists for the workers and their goods, the fish and seafood. If you don't have a feeling for the importance of food , especially seafood in Japanese culture you simply don't deserve the experience of the worlds best and largest fish market.
That they put the market off limits for morons like that, at least for a while, is perfectly understandable. You can't allow fools to mistreat fish that might sell for $10,000 (1st grade sushi Tuna) per piece !
The behaviour is examplifying the disrespect of (some) tourists for the workers and their goods, the fish and seafood. If you don't have a feeling for the importance of food , especially seafood in Japanese culture you simply don't deserve the experience of the worlds best and largest fish market.
That they put the market off limits for morons like that, at least for a while, is perfectly understandable. You can't allow fools to mistreat fish that might sell for $10,000 (1st grade sushi Tuna) per piece !
parsec1
parsec1
parsec1
parsec1
The Seattle fish market is pretty good to photograph. All those 'flying fish'.
sniki
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icebear
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I haven't been to Seattle (yet) but also visited to Fulton fishmarket in it's old location before the move to the new warehouse. It certainly had some special atmosphere but the dirt and overall location was making it the hands down looser against Tsukiji, no contest - interesting to photograph though
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