Tokyo, Japan

The bustling kept on going the following morning at 4:30 am when I stopped by the Tsukiji fish market to check out the tuna auction and the various seafood markets. The energy throughout the area was frenetic with people buying, selling, and preparing seafood of all kinds and I tried to stay out of the way of the locals who seemed irritated by the many foreign tourists that flock to the area every morning.

The place was amazing and I had mixed emotions in watching so many animals cut up and filleted (especially after recently watching the film- The Cove) but a good deal of that is cultural and something more urban Americans just aren't used to seeing. The hustle and bustle was fun to watch but also a bit dangerous with carts carrying crates of food bouncing past you at every turn so I stopped into one of the small sushi restaurants that lay just outside of the market and had the most amazing sushi of my life for breakfast.