Sayonara Tsukiji as exodus of famed fish market begins

Businesses bid emotional farewell to Tokyo institution ahead of move to new site

TOKYO - Hundreds of fishmongers on forklifts and trucks rose before dawn in Tokyo to join a mammoth exodus of vendors as the world-famous Tsukiji market relocates to a new site.

In small vehicles and the market's "turret trucks" - one-man flatbeds with a barrelshaped steering column at the front - they drove out of the Tsukiji site one last time, headed for Toyosu, the market's new home.