Tsukiji market vendors drive off to new home

One for the road: A group of turret trucks heading to new Toyosu market from in Tokyo. — AP

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 famed “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.