Ichthomania

You see the Tokyo Tsukiji Fish Market on many travel shows as one of the best tourists destinations in Japan. These are all untrue. While the market might be an interesting place in theory, as a tourist, you're just getting in everyone's way. You can tell that the workers are resentful as they splash buckets of brine on your legs and flick off scales onto your clothes. The market doesn't open to the public until 9:30 am and by that time, they've finished selling off all the giant tuna, the whale meat, and the dolphins, and all the sketchy stuff that could draw negative attention from the tourists. All you see is fish heads and eels, and the smell is overwhelming.

A resentful man with a knife as long as a sword. He cut off the heads of fish very menacingly

The restaurants around the area, though they boast tasty sushi and barbecued eel, are filthy and crowded. There is a smattering of shops selling overpriced tourist wares. Everything's wet, slimy, and smells horrible. I do not recommend you go to the fish market no matter how many cooking shows you watched that made it seem great.

The one good thing about Tsukiji was the cute mini shrine they had outside the market. It had two lion's heads, one black and one gold, that fell off their bodies after a big earthquake. These kitsune spirits were off to the side, and you could sit in front of them and relax as they mesmerized you with cunning eyes.