Tsukiji makes World Monuments Watch List
Tokyo’s Tsukiji district was listed by the World Monuments Fund on their 2016 World Monuments Watch List. The district’s early 20th century architecture, which includes small two- and three-story wooden shophouses, is considered to be at risk due to the urban redevelopment that will occur after the relocation of the Tsukiji Fish Market.
The Tsukiji area is located just south of Ginza. It was largely reduced to rubble and burnt fields following the 1923 Great Kanto earthquake, and the area’s neighbourhoods underwent a large re-shuffle. The fish market from Nihonbashi was relocated to Tsukiji and opened in 1935.Read more