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Follow Your Nose to Travel Bliss
Sometimes you have to learn to ignore the hype and trust your own senses.
Seafood on display at the old Tsukiji Market.
Illustration: Bráulio Amado; Photographer: Harry Green/Alamy
I’m really just following orders when I get up at 4 a.m. with a plan to arrive at Tsukiji Market before daybreak in Tokyo. It’s January 2015, and everything I’ve read assures me that early risers have the best chance to witness the bustle of this “Wall Street of fish,” a place where some 480 varieties of sea creature go up for sale daily—including fatty, melt-in-your-mouth bluefin tuna that can net as much as $200 per pound.
But nowhere is there a warning for my nostrils.